rwiederrich
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I believe her pinrails were beneath her main rail. See illustration and photo Rob
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Yep. Even the most accurate can miss hidden details. The photos of her conversion reveals the pinrail. I’ll be adding them soon myself. Rob
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Rich. You forgot the main pin rail just beneath the main rail molding. Rob
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Thanks Tom. I’m surely tentative to details, but my use of material to create said is crude at best. I’ll use any thing to get-er done. Again, thanks Rob
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Indeed……. McKay envisioned large cargo carriers. Designed to endure the brutal lower latitudes and their huge waves. That is the one real reason he built the leviathan Great Republic. The roaring 40’s were the most brutal of passages and the trip from there to Australia was the worst. His ships were designed for such passages. Hence their strength and size. Rob
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Vlad…….how are you cutting the molding into the planksheer ? Rob
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Setting the bowsprit/jibboom. She kind looks like the SanPedro image……
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Apparently the jibboom not only tapers down from its junction point at the bowsprit But apparently Narrows on either side as well and turns into more of an oblong square shape than round. I did make that slight adjustment but apparently I didn’t make it strong enough I’m not sure if it’s worth tearing everything up to do that replacement I’ll have to think about it. Rob
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Now all I need to do is add the Martingale mounting’s and all the rings to support the stays and the jacks stays and all the headgear.
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Well I worked on the bowsprit this morning and did some finalizing and repairing and I think I’m pretty close the attachment needs to be modified a bit but I think it’s looking pretty good.
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Thanks Pat…….but your build outclasses mine by miles. Your fit and finish is stellar
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Rich……sorry, but you’re seeing the sprit while it was just resting there, it dropped and was not in the right place. I’ve since made some adjustments. Thanks bro
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Working on the bowsprit cap I my cut it from one piece of wood , these iron straps are self adhesive aluminum foil.
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Sure thing Rich here is the beginning of the replacement sprit.
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Here is my problem I am one 6 inch scale off in my diameter of the bow spread. A total of 6 inches at scale that is significant. I think I took my measurements before I had laid the final top rail trim. No wonder. Plus, I’m going to upscale my banding material as well. It will be a far better end result. Thanks for the advice and refresher data input. Notice the difference in this pic. Rob
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Well I decided to remake the bowsprit the jibboom is not in question. What I want to do is make the entire D slightly larger the bowsprit is in my view too small based on the current data. The jibboom is proper in relation to the bowsprit but the bowsprit needs to be re-engineered that’s what I’m going to do thanks.
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Upon further investigation and, just looking her over...I think I'm going to remake her bowsprit. I think I miscalculated the size of her bowsprits dimensions. Not in her length or in her details....but in her diameter. She just doesn't look right to me...what does everyone think? The main rail trim is lined up correctly, but I think I removed too much material when I turned the bowsprit down. It just doesn't feel right. No prob. I can remake the entire rig..bowsprit/jibbom an all. Rob
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Very good observation. It can't be erroneously assumed her bowsprit had any real distance between it and the naval hood...solely based off of her images with no jibboom. Stresses of her tightened bobstays and martingale tension and the stays stresses would have surely applied forces not seen in her *SPRUNG* state without any jibboom and head gear stresses. Rigging and sparring designs took into consideration the stress loads and flexure that would be attained...thus requiring the nautical engineer to calculate that into his design. both hull and rigging. Bob Cleek would know exactly what I was talking about and could probably explain it far better. He's a professional....I'm not even an amateur. It is true what Vlad says...it's nice to have your eyes and opinion at our beckon call....heeheehee Rob
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And they are both suppose to be in the same scale of 1/96. 900 tons verses 2100. Similar comparison from the Great Republic 4555 verses 2100 average clipper of the same period. Rob
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Looking good Vlad...the bulwarks are very clean and it is important to maintain proper convexity as you approach the bow. Good work for sure. Love the progress. Rob
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I'm an energizer bunny.......I need progress or I get anxious....plus the research is done...work is now upon me. I need now to think of the means by which I will display her. What will be her pedestal. Rob
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Well Rich...I appreciate that very much....however, I still think I could have done better on some details. I think the transfer was lost in my own inability to replicate accurately. Even in the most discriminating replica...there will be details lost in the translation. Namely in the skills of the modeler in being able to make those translations accurately. I have made a plethora of mistakes and shortcomings, that I have identified. But for the sake of not distracting from the end goal...I will not divulge them here. And I fully agree...without that very clear image of Glory's bow provided by Mike, we could not have been able to make accurate measurements....measurements we can use to reverse engineer the entire vessel. The only true issue is some of the finer details....details that conflict with photographic evidence and those of Mike's original drawings.....and those details omitted from paintings or just not visible due to angle and distance. There is still some wiggle room for artistic license. Some of these items I will detail when I get to that install stage of the model. Cheers. Rob
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A few more images. I won’t attach it till I finish adding all the head gear attachments and the martingale point. And fixing all the guy and jib points It’s so much easier to do all that off model. Rob
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Thanks so much Rich, I’m truly honored by your comments. I worked the bowsprit, it is still wet. I even made the iron strap with a bolt. I’ll take a better image when things dry Rob
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Finished up the top gallant rail cap and the install of the cat heads.
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