Moxis
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Hello, Thanks again for all of you who have welcomed me into this forum and encouraged to start a build log about my present project. As already mentioned at the introduction area, I am building a wooden ketch Clara May after David McGregor plans, which I obtained already about 14 years ago, but never really started to build it. Soon however I found out that the plans could have been better to show more details as they do, but I think that with help from the forum all questions can be solved. The reason to choose this as my first wooden ship project was, that the hull & superstructure are simple enough for the first project, and that the outlooks of the ship was appealing to me. I chose scratch building instead of a kit because I happen to have a rather well equipped workshop to be able to cut all my timbers by myself. And having scratch built already a couple of tanks and cars in 1/6 scale I was not afraid of the work which might be ahead. And thirdly, when scratchbuilding you can freely select your materials and are not tied to the ones included into the kit, which are not always the best possible. So here we are, in the beginning. The first pictures show the plans of the ship and some of the equipment which I have in my workshop. To be continued...
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Clara May
Moxis replied to Moxis's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
Thanks a lot guys for help! I think too that the round things on both sides of the mast are pumps, and the rectangular "boxes" are tanks, perhaps for water, because on early days she didn't have engines. I think this matter is closed and I can continue my build! Regards Matti -
Clara May
Moxis replied to Moxis's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
Wonderful Mark, thanks a lot! Now I can continue my build! Regards Matti -
Hello, I was issuing my question at the New Member Introduction part, but it may be that it will be ignored by some people, so once again: As my first wooden ship model I am building the ketch Clara May after David McGregor plans. When building the deck fittings I was wondering what are these structures (marked with red arrows), and how do they look like in reality? To be able to build these as accurately as possible a picture of a real ship or finished model would be great to show the items from perspective. Regards Matti
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