Avoca
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Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class · 382 pts
Melbourne, Australia
Member since Sep 2026
Last online 5 hours ago
Age 66
About
Recently retired with a renewed enthusiasm for building 'things'.
It is my goal to reproduce, in model form, copies of the two sailing vessels that transported my forebears to Australia as teenage convicts in the early 19th Century, the Earl Grey and the Palmyra.
Avoca’s build blogs
2 blogs1854 'Clipper' Tayleur Build.
Hi all, A new day, new information and... and new project. Planning to assemble a large scale wooden, or mixed media, replica of the RMS …
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Convict transporter 1840's, "Palmyra"
Looking to recreate this vessel in a scale model. Is there anyway to get the ship's plans? Cheers.
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...and, we're away... step by step.
Step 1. Import Foundry Line Drawing into FreeCAD. Updates to follow. Murray.
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@ColRay Go Col...
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3D - CAD Workflow sorted...
So, Having had a long and interesting chat with the 3D printer guy's, it turns out this might be the cheapest, non-commercial (FOSS), workflow to start with. A…
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Re: Modifying Project Blog Titles?
@ColRay 'Seek and ye shall find' Col...
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Re: Modifying Project Blog Titles?
Sorry scratch that... All good, it's back. Probably needed to give the system time to recallibrate. So, thank you. Murray
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@Fishercat Ok, so the Title has changed, but, all the content has gone.
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Re: Modifying Project Blog Titles?
@Fishercat Awesome, thanks. Murray.
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Modifying Project Blog Titles?
Hi, I need to modify the title of my build blog and can't see how its done. I spelled the vessel name incorrectly, and granted it a Royal Warrant it didn't hav…
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The Tayleur was NOT a Royal Mail Ship (RMS) after all.
An interesting side note. Following a recent enquiry to Edward Bourke, he included this small footnote; "by the way the designation RMS is a mail ship Tayleur …
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Decision Made. CAD - 3D print the hull it is.
So, I have made a decision, considering the amount and quality of material I now have, to go full on and just start from scratch, 21st Century style. And, give…
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