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Cutty Sark by omarcs - Scientific Models - scale 1:140 approx


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Hello!!

 

The ship is on my work table and I have been working on other project instead of her.

 

My energy primarily goes to my 1967 Barracuda. It has been a long restoration and I want to start her up this spring. I bought her new and she has over 200,000 miles and had a lot of things to do to get her up and running

 

So I have satisfied the ship itch by watching the work of others

 

Omar

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Cutty Sark   Scientific kit 1:140ish

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How time flies. Over 2 years. I did not realize it had been so long.

 

I added a few items to the ship this week:

1. freeing ports made from card stock. I was going to use very thin balsa until I realized how out of scale they would be.

2.The grates at the helmsman station. I had saved some copper screen from who knows what that gave me a reasonable grate at my scale. a 10mm X 10 mm is too small for me to make out of wood.

 

Obviously I did not perish at sea. The ship sits on my work table along with an alien space ship still under construction, but I have been putting my creative time into my 1967 Barracuda. It is finally at the final few adjustments to linkages and I now am ready to do more work on my ship.   

 

Omar

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Cutty Sark   Scientific kit 1:140ish

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I just finished a Scientific Cutty Sark kit #163 which I had started many years ago.  Last year around February, I decided to finish it, so I dug the box out of storage only to find half of the material was missing.  Since I had the hull nicely shaped a sanded smoothly, I went to eBay and found another kit for sale.  When I go it, I found it had a different set of plans than the one I had.  My original kit did not have a several page booklet of instructions plus a different "lifelike" plan sheet.  Also, some details and expected parts were not included.  I decided to used the newer more detailed plans and made adaptations as needed.  One real difference I found, was the space between the poop deck and the pin rail near the steering box was almost non-existent. Also, I decided to go with rolled up sails on the fore, main and mizzen masts. 

 

Well, I finished her last week although at times I wondered if I would get her done.

 

I send my encouragement to you to hang in there and take your Cutty Sark to the finish line.

 

Paul

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Paul

 

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Hello friends!!!

 

The hobby car is 99.9% complete most days so I decided the ship has been patient long enough and I need to get back to work.

 

The first task was to figure out where I was and then to decide on the next task. I decided to work on the bow area. I have been browsing my store of reference material and the internet. I think I am safe to start on bowsprit and gammoning. When finished they won't be in the way of subsequent work. After this work my intention is to place eye bolts on bow. 

 

I finished, I hope, the dauphin striker. The kit version was not satisfactory, and after the stem accident tore it up, I had no reason not to try for better. I have managed "different". I may need to try it again. I am using styrene and thin wire so it is easy to build. I will post pictures of effort #1.

 

Omar 

 

 

Omar

 

Cutty Sark   Scientific kit 1:140ish

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my excuse for no pictures is that I am actually working on the ship . I am using a dowel and copper wire, harder than i anticipated.  I do have the 4 loops made and glued. I drilled a hole through the dowel and am running copper wire through the hole. I twisted the wire into 2 loops from 1 piece of wire. 2 strands of wire works pretty good, while 4 strands is too many. The dowel is too big in diameter so I am working on getting it slimmer. it is good to be working on the ship.

 

Omar

Omar

 

Cutty Sark   Scientific kit 1:140ish

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