Hi everyone!

I´m off starting to build the Smit Rotterdam, but the problem is that I need plans of the frames, I have had the Billings model, but I fancy a larger scale boat, so if anyone of you could send me drawings of the frames I´ll bee very happy, bying a boat just to get the frames out will not make my wife happy : (

Please PM me!

Greatful for everything: Runar

That is a toughy.

Can you sand down a LARGE block of blue styrofoam. I did a 81" A10 warthog & a 4 engined China Clipper that way.......I think you can do it, as the hull is a continous curve everywhere.
Trace the top veiw and side view.
You can enlarge any views at Staples or a Office supplies place.
Use a band saw at some carpentry place. Begging works. I used 33 grit to rough it. Then 80 grit for final finish. It ....IS.... quicker than a framed wood boat. Make a mistake? White glue & a scrap piece. ONLY use lightweight spackling compound. Only water based paints. test paints on some scrap.

It will NEVER SINK or ROT.

Rich

I may have a plank-on-frame Rotterdam kit, I'll check tonight.
Dave

Hi Dave!

That sound lovley, if you can mark them out on paper and then use a scanner, Let me know!

// Runar

Här är tracings,
skål!
Dave

Tackar så himmlans mycket!!!!!

Maybe start a building thread on the smithers? scale is 1:37.5

Skål!

I missed #13, it's the keel bulb former,
it slides up from the bottom. This is printed on
one of the sheets, the rest were all hand jig-sawed
in the box. Nothing else is pre-cut cut in the
kit, all must be done by the modeler.
Perhaps I'll "CAD" those formers and keel parts..
but don't wait for that to start your project.
And yes, a few pix of the building would be cool!
Dave.