Frigate model

hellnbak

Do you have a source for reference photos, or at least a more specific description to do some research on it?

Box

Nice model Carsten although your mixing of German and English in the title is driving me nuts.
Fregatte-Frigate=Fregate
Years of proof reading translations drives me to this.

Couldn't resist a little play with your model.

cotty

@hellnbak said:

Do you have a source for reference photos, or at least a more specific description to do some research on it?

As far as I know it is called Frigate "Chapman 40"...

cotty

@box said:

Nice model Carsten although your mixing of German and English in the title is driving me nuts.

Sorry, I've changed the title...

Daniel

fantastic job, cotty.

hellnbak

@cotty said:

@hellnbak said:

Do you have a source for reference photos, or at least a more specific description to do some research on it?

As far as I know it is called Frigate "Chapman 40"...

Thanks.
I found the PDF's but apparently he didn't take it any further than you did

I was hoping for something that I could use to maybe finish the model, guess I'll have to do some more digging.

hellnbak

Also found a site where you can download the files necessary to create the frame on a CNC machine
http://www.john-tom.com/FrameKits.html
it's the second model down

For several years I programmed horizontal CNC mills, I loved those machines and always wanted to have a small one for myself. It's on my bucket list somewhere

imabzeous

this is beautiful? which software you used for rendering

cotty

Thank you, Daniel.

@hellnbak said:

I loved those machines and always wanted to have a small one for myself.

Oh yes, I know what you mean...

@imabzeous said:

this is beautiful? which software you used for rendering

Thank you, I've used Indigo Renderer.

Bryan K

Excellent model, but what happened to the fregate? (just kidding)

cotty

@bryan k said:

Excellent model, but what happened to the fregate? (just kidding)

Thank you. Fregate was killed by Box

ken28875

great model and render, Carsten!

have a good weekend!

_KN

LA_RR_Architect

A fascinating model.

I've struggled with wooden ship models in AutoCAD, which I suspect many of you know has a fairly unfriendy interface, but does have the ability to manage fairly complex splines in 3d space.

How do you create the complex curves needed with Sketchup?

Jim

cotty

I've used some plans like those showed by Hellnbak here, imported them (PDF -> Inkscalpe -> DXF-> SU) and improved the lines with Fredos Curviloft. After that, some pushpulls and moves and it was finished...

Box

@la_rr_architect said:

How do you create the complex curves needed with Sketchup?

Have you used Fredo's Bezier Spline tools.
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=BezierSpline

hellnbak

@box said:

@la_rr_architect said:

How do you create the complex curves needed with Sketchup?

Have you used Fredo's Bezier Spline tools.
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=BezierSpline

So that's what that does! Heck, I may have to give that a try