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I surely wish they would.....and an American Clipper at that. I began to build a plank on frame scratch... Clipper Lightning 30 years ago that was five feet long from stem to stern. She never got past the weather deck stage...when she got destroyed in a mishap .. Rob
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Fine job for sure Frankie. I never have built a ship in a bottle before...I even have a kit. I know it takes some engineering to lay everything down and then pull it all back up once in......still pretty nifty stuff. Watching with anticipation. Rob
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Nice work. Rob
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Fantastic! Rob
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ancre Le Fleuron 1729 by rekon54 - 1:24
rwiederrich replied to rekon54's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
GOOD NIGHT NURSE! This is without a doubt the best representation of skillfully executed model ship building I have ever seen. Not just the quality, but the attention to detail and finish. Superb! man..SUPERB! I wasn't sure I was looking at a model or the real thing...but hyper detailed and finished beyond comprehension. I'm fully impressed. I will be watching this build with delight. Rob -
Super soldering job....... Rob
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Excellent work.......very impressive. Rob
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I am enjoiying your build.......and fine work indeed. I use my hand held micro torch and flux core silver solder to do all my soldering......you did a good job for sure. What agent did you use for blackening/pickling? I use gun blue on all my copper and brass and it blackens it up nicely and in short order. Great log. Rob
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Fantastic build. Rob
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Back to the build. I finished the bow and head gear first..since it was easist and I like to complete things in as small projects..so the entire project moves along faster(well at least if feels like it moves along faster) Rob
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Jumping ahead...here is a comparison of images of the Glory in 1900 and my version. I thought it was interesting.
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Oh..Ed you have to get a computer or at least a lap top in your shop....I couldn't get by with out mine right there in the shop...so I can reference and double check resources. Not to mention so I can take images and down load them as soon as possible. My lathes and mills are just out in the next building..not more then 5 steps away......Steps! No way. Well getting your cardio and ship work done all in one fell swoop is a blessing I guess. Rob
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Cutty Sark by NenadM
rwiederrich replied to NenadM's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Sorry I missed that... in your write up. Fun build for sure. Rob -
Oh boy..and a front row seat to. I'm enjoying this fully. Great start Ed. Rob
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Cutty Sark by NenadM
rwiederrich replied to NenadM's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
What kit are you building? Mine was the Revell 1/96 kit......a 1959 version when the molds were new and crisp injection moldings were made. I build a wooden version years ago...but the detail was lacking and many deck features were out of scale or simply plain wrong. study is the trick for a good rendering....and I had to rebuild much and make many mods to keep to the actual ship. Rob -
Actually Nenad...I build the Revell 1/96 CS ship from the kit..apart from adding extra details and corrections...like not using string for railing and actually rigging the shrouds and dedeye lanyards and using scale chain. I super detailed it....like I will do with the scratch built glory of the Seas. Rob
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Thanks Nenad. I figured that an engineered hull could more easily be re-engineered to my models specs then could be achieved from beginning from scratch. The desire to expedite my build and my ability to modify existing kit hulls to my purpose fuels my enjoyment and saves me loads of scratch building hours. I think the labor has been quite convincing. I plan on doing the exact same thing(converting the Revell CS hull) into my next build the clipper Donald McKay..after I'm finish with the Glory of the Seas. Rob
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during this time I was working on the gunnels and chain plates as I was adding the masts...
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Moving aft again I finished up the helm cabin and deck details before adding the fore and main masts.
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During this time I was building the composite masts over on the bench...after i had mounted the mast on the mill and milled out the section of the mast that had been created by the 5 sections being tongue and grooved...then iron banded. Fillets were pressed under the bands between the outer sections to form a secure surface for the banding. Here is a pic of one of the masts.
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Next I moved forward again and added pins in the pinrail and worked aft.
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Well picking up on the poop cabin...I painted and weathered it in my usual manner. Here are some before painting and after.
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Cutty Sark by NenadM
rwiederrich replied to NenadM's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
One of her deck amidship.
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Cutty Sark by NenadM
rwiederrich replied to NenadM's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
I enjoyed building my Cs in just under 3 months.....I hyper detailed her and set her in a diorama of a factual event...getting her jurry rigged rudder replaced.
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Enough for today....I'll post more tomorrow as i continue the build of my scratch/bashed Glory of the Seas. Thanks for looking in. Rob
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