Assembly instructions line ship Santísima Trinidad

# Assembly instructions to build the scale model

# line ship Santísima Trinidad

Important notices : It is not a suitable model for beginners. Won't take rigorously these instructions, this it is my interpretation of the plans of the Naval Museum and I hope that you improve it.

The scale to which I will work will be 1/90, that it is a governable scale and it adapts well to the accessories of the model stores, although each person will be able to choose the scale to its pretenses, the corresponding scale to most of the plans of the Naval Museum are 1/75 and 1/100 in the standing rigging plans.

The scale of the model and the scale of the printers plans will be 1:1, that is to say 1 cm in the plane will be the same to 1 cm in the model and it won't be necessary to carry out some calculation. The approximate dimension of the finish model at 1/90 will be 110cm length, 92cm high and 17,5cm breadth.

I have made litle modified in the position of the original frames to remain open all the gunports.

KEELSON AND FRAMES.

To do the keelson and frames we will choose a plywood or DMK of 5 or 6 mm (we can also opt for 2 of 3 mm and glue them).

To print the plans with AutoCAD we must go to: File - plott - plott parameters - plott Scale - Scale: Adjust scale - Personalized: 1000 mm = 90 drawing units. Where 90 correspond to the scale that we want to print it.

The hojas de impresión layer is a unprint layer and it is good to print in several A4 the planes that otherwise there would be that plott in big formats.

When the plans have been printed, we will proceed to trace them on the plywood, to cut them and to sand them. scale model page 1.

These plans are for all scales, it is not the same to choose a plywood of 5 or of 6 mm to a scale or another, since one the width of the grooves in the keelson where they insert in the cuadernas it can vary, therefore before to trace them and to cut the plywood we should assure ourselves that this grooves have the same width of the frames.

Glue all the frames to the keelson. Make sure you leave them flush at right angles and firmly glued to the keelson. Also glue the mast base blocks, the strips holding the cannon (12mm approximately), the distance of these to the strips will depend on the "canyon with pin" that we have to install, to avoid that these they can be seen finished once, will paint them now on black.

SHAPING ON THE RIBS.

In order to make sure the hull is propely planked, it is essential to bevel the ribs and the kellson so that the lining boards fit well into them. You must be careful because the sum of the strips width and the keelson must be the same as the stern post width .

DECKS.

Glue and nail the 3th deck, glue wiht strips 0,5mm to frame then sand and varnish.

Glue and nail the 3th deck, like you can see in scale model page 2 , glue with strips 0,5mm to frame then sand and varnish. To place the bottom board and the stairway with handrail that goes down to the 3th deck and to prepare the holes where they will notice the eyebolts to hold the cannons, the bottom board will also be placed with chileras (look in decks plan), I have used pellets and the base of the main mast in walnut 4mm, like you can´t see fogón (the vent), I have placed the colored visible wall on black.

As we finish the successive covers we must make the holes of the masts, keeping in mind that they are well aligned, at about 2.5 cm or 3cm of depth. You mustn't glue the masts.

The superior deck (forecastle and quarter-deck) it is therefore of strips ramín 5mm we will have to place the beam indicated in scale model page 2, should coincide with the frames according to plans in the area of the foso del combes (look in decks plan).

HULL PLANKING.

With strips 5 and 6mm of walnut and ramín like it leaves indicating in the section scale model page 1 and 2 beginning with the area of the inferior decks calculating where the deks are, according to the frames and keeping in mind that we will use the gunports 13x13 (with cannons of 36 and 24 pounds) for the two inferior decks we will use the gunports 10x10 for the two superiors (with small cannons) .

It is important to take the height of the deck and not to notice excess of the exact point where they finish the frames, I have noticed that this (taken out as all of the plans of the Naval Museum) it is not very exact.
For the bulwark, I have opted to use interior and external strips 5mm, painting the interiors in red. The cover bulwark will be of walnut 4mm.
I have opted for not apply a second light strip in the hull and varnish of dark below the load waterline and transparent for above. You can also paint in white for under and of yellow and black for above according to the treaties of this time.

STEM, KEEL, STERN POST AND HELM.

The stem, stern post and helm will be of walnut 8mm and the keel will be formed for 2 lists of walnut 5 mm, 2 lists of ramin 5 mm and one of ramin 8 mm., or all walnut 8 mm will be made.

GUNPORTS AND WINDOWS.

You can paint them in red the interior, black the hinges and brown the rest (or yellow if the hull is yellow and black). Glue with cyanoacrylate.

CANNONS AND CARRONADES

Varnish the gun carriage or paint it in red. You can paint in black the cannons.

BASE SUPPORT OR PEDESTAL

The pedestal or base support it will be able to use with a bought pedestal, or uniting the two walnut parts 5mm with 2 ramin dowels or walnut of 25cm long and a Ø 10 (to scale 1/90).
The prow side corresponds approximately with the frame 3 (prow) and the stern side is located approximately among the frammes 5 and 7 (stern).

BOW.

Working at the moment.

STERN AND ESCUTCHEON.

Working at the moment. almost finished

To be continued..........