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Jerry Todd 🇺🇸 Basic

Sub-Lieutenant  · 1,448 pts Severna Park, United States Member since Jun 2017 Last online 2 days ago
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3 boats

(Naval Ship) Constellation

Constellation was the last sail-powered-only warship built by the US Navy. Built in 1854 and launched in 18…

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(Other) Pride of Baltimore

I worked on building the original boat in 1976 when I was 16. I crewed on her in 1981 for 2 months, partici…

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(Naval Ship) Macedonian

Macedonian was a Lively class 38 gun frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1810. She fought and was captured b…

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Jerry Todd’s build blogs

3 blogs
Pride of Baltimore 1981

My first official job, when I was 16, was working on the construction of the Baltimore Clipper schooner Pride of Baltimore. On my 21st bi…

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HMS Macedonian: a working RC model in 1:36 scale

I've been into the Hornblower series of books since elementary school, but it was C.S.Forester's The Captain From Connecticut that lead m…

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Constellation

Made the framed glass portion of the skylight. They're hinged so I can get a finger inside to flip the power switch on or off. They're ma…

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Last posted 16 days ago
Blog reply Re: Fin The sails were laid out with panel lines aligned to the run of the cloth. At the moment the heads'ls aren't attached to stays, but have a bit of cord attached … 5 81 Blog reply Fin While trying to clean up the shop, I got Pride out of her corner, and put her fin in to get a picture The holes in it are for depth adjustment, from 15" to 13"… 11 126 Blog reply Brace Winch Concept I'm building a web page on my site dealing with sail controls for RC square-riggers. While researching various methods, I came across a YouTube video about the… 9 200 Blog reply Pride of Paint While painting things for Constellation, some things for Pride got paint too 11 512 Blog reply Do and Redo Painted the printed grating a more oakish color, but not really matching the wood gratings I made. then I had to chop off some of the head gratings to bet the … 5 727 Blog reply Gratings and Skids Clamps, ledgers, cleats, whatever, got installed in the head for the grating to sit on, and it all got painted. I made new templates and from them 3D models of… 5 807 Blog reply Remodeling the Loo Painting and clear-coating is done on the crew that's made so far, so I started looking at making gratings for the head. I made chipboard patterns, scanned the… 5 885 Blog reply Davit and Goliath I'm sure the davits had some sort of brace, most likely bolted to the hammock irons that make up the bulwarks, so I mocked something up with chipboard and the … 5 1,017 Blog reply More little guys I printed the modified files, 7 straw hats, and the sponger. I made the hat brims too thin, and they didn't print well, so I made brims from paper, painted the… 5 1,061 Blog reply Re: Now in Color All of them are on bits of card for now, but will be attached to the deck. On stands they'd slide around as the model sailed. Ivan is standing on a piece of cl… 11 1,130

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