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Beautiful hull. I'm struggling with the hull on the Billings kit. It is much harder than meets the eye How did you get the hull so smooth? This is a single planked model and the hull is steel. Overplanking with thin plastic sheet? Some type of wood filler. Help! Thanks Lou
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Overplank the bulwarks on the interior And paint the exterior. Drill the holes for nails. LOU -
Beautiful work so far. I used a panel cutter to lift the brass parts off the sheet. It did not turn the edges like a shears would. Pay close attention to the ruddder details. Longridge shows a different configuration than shown on the plans that came with the kit. Lou
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Great start! I did use the brass bulwarks. I made a plywood frame to mount them on, and painted them black. BTW my entire model is painted. Since the real ship still exists, painting it makes a more realistic model. I stained the deck teak and painted everything in accordance with the color scheme of the ship as it is today. Lou
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sorry about the delay. I would love to have any materials for The Great Eastern. My mailing address is Louis S Halikman 16915 Gerting Road Monkton MD 21111 If there is a charge for copying please send a bill and I will send a check promptly. Thanks!!! BTW, have you started to build her? any pictures? What scale?
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It will be my pleasure to help. don't hesitate. I like how you secured the keel for framing. Great start. Longridge's book was indispensable for hull details. I simply do not understand why kit plans have gross inaccuracies. Lou
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I followed the same course. My Sergal kit was purchased in the late 1980's and not started until 2009. Construction took 12 years with attention to detail from Longridge, Underhill, and Campbell. The plans that I had were of little use and had several serious errors. I don't know if the errors have been corrected so please check, especially the pinrail and rigging diagrams. The model is largely kit bashed and scratch built. It can be done! Take your time, and always think ahead. To do a full rigged with sails model you will need a lot more rigging points than shown on the original plans, and a lot more blocks and belaying pins and eyebolts. Lou
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I found a few drawings. There is a paper model available that might be usable as a template for sizing and general arrangement. Contemplating using that as a start-off point. Lou
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thought I would never finish! Thanks!
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Finished!! Kit bashed Mantua-Sergal Cutty Sark. 12 years of part-time labor of love. Modified per Longridge and Underhill.
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Glad I am not the only one obsessed with this ship I am contemplating a 1/8" scale scratch built project but i can't find a decent set of plans. I have just bits and pieces. If you have decent plans I would gladly pay any copying and mailing expense. thanks Lou Halikman
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I'm also interested in the Great Eastern in its configuration as a cable layer. Where did you find source material? I understand that Revell had a model years ago, but I cannot find one that I could use to scale up a scratch built model. Any books available which would be useful? I've run into a stone wall trying to research this important historic ship. All help would be appreciated. Thanks Lou
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Beautiful work.
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The wood is patient, so must the builder be.....
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Beautiful job. I have used charcoal pencils rubbed on the sides of the planks to simulate caulking.
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Friends, I need help. I am almost finished a fully rigged Sergal Cutty Sark. I have no idea how to make the bumpkins. Any suggestions? I don't want to use eyebolts in the hull -- not true to the ship architecture. As for the sails, I just cut of the excess material and sewed rings into the corners. Some adjustment of yard height was needed, but the overall effect is satisfactory to my eye. Now for the bumpkins. Help! Thanks Lou
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Beautiful job! I was so inspired by your work that I bought one for my next project -- probably in about one year. Where did you get the light strips? 12 or 120 volt? They look great!
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Good questions. I sewed the rings into the corners after trimming off the excess. No lines actually went through the sail cloth. The sheet and tack lines for the lower sails are a problem. I might use chain painted tan so that I can get a nice swag. rigging line simply looked untidy. Very fine chain is available from Micro-Mark. Easy to blacken or paint. It has some heft to it and holds its shape. An alternative is to furl the lower sails, still a possibility, but that is not my preferred look. Send some pictures!!! Lou
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Yes it is the Mantua set. It was not easy to figure out which sail was which. I finally lined them up in decreasing order to figure it out. But some of the sail sizes are incorrect. Too big or too small. So I had to modify my yard positions to make them fit. Not easy to alter the chain halyards once in place. It too me about a year of searching to find the Mantua sail set. I guess overall it was worth the money. It comes with a rigging diagram that is a bit different from some of the others that I have seen. I tied them to the jackstays with individual knots, not running knots. Used very thin tan thread. sewed rings in the the lower corners for rigging points. I am not happy with the way the studding yard arms worked out. I don't like the bare pole model, as it simply has too much empty space. I am happy with the way it is coming out. I am not going to use all of the sails. I'm not using the spencer sail, but i will use the spanker. I haven't decided on the staysails. The set came with 3 jibs, but some pictures of the Cutty show 4 jibs and there are rigging points for 4 jibs. Oh well. Send some pictures! Lou
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I was planning to build a five masted lumber schooner from scratch. I've had the plans in a mailing tube in my workshop for years. Then I saw the sale on this model. It was close enough to the look I was after to give it a try. i have no experience with Billing Boats kits but I hope it is better than the Italian kits. I did scratch build a Bermuda sloop a number of years ago from plans by Rob Napier published in the NRJ. It came out great so I thought I was up to the task. But this approach for this model seemed easier. I saw one under construction in the Forums and it looked great.
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Thank you! I did not know that an improved fitting set was available. This model is almost completely scratch built from Longridge. The rigging is still another challenge. The sails were purchased but fit has been a problem. One more year at the most! Next project : Billing boat model of the Esmeralda
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Current status. About 10 years in, probably finish in another year.
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Cutty Sark from an extensively modified Sergal Kit according to Longride and Underhill. About ten years so far, about one more year to go. It can be done but it is not easy, at least it wasn't for me.
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I am almost finished the Sergal Cutty Sark, scale 1:78 this model is 44" long. Any larger scale would be huge! This ship is so difficult to model that I suspect that many builders abandon the project or scale back their expectations. This should be undertaken only by an experienced expert builder. The kit was an older issue dating back to the 1980's. It sat in my workshop until 2010 when I started it. So ten years later I am almost finished including sails. The current kit I understand is not as good, as some of the fittings are just awful. This kit was fair, except for the plans, which had gross errors. It must be built from Longridge's book and plans from the Cutty Sark Museum. Very difficult but a good model can be the result. There are some intermediate photos of my model if you search for them. I'll post an update in a few weeks. From what I have read the Billing Boats kit seems to be quite good. Good luck Lou
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