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    Nice work Rob
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    Awesome....... Rob
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    Fun stuff. Rob
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    Nice.. Rob
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    Sweet......just sweet Rob
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    Cool Rob
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    Now here is another ship to model...same rig as the Ferreira...and as my thread, seams to suffer the same fate.......heehee Rob
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    Worked a bit today and added some head gear details and the mooring lines and float.
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    Indeed Scott...It is my habbit to display my models in dioramas that represent an actual historical even in the ships life. I feel display can be a powerful media to encourage the interest of sailing ships and what they represented to our nautical history in those who might otherwise just give a passing glance to all the work we put into our models. The model simply lifts off the 4 pillars so I can seporate it from its base to work on it. *Look do you see*...the *stuff* on the harbor bottom.......begins the excited inspection of the model.........and its surroundings. Thanks for your fine comments. Rob
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    During this build I realized that a heavily weathered subject actually makes for an easier build. Who else weathers their ships heavily? Rob
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    Awesome job mate. Rob
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    Hey Ed..after doing some research on the Young America..it appears there is a discrepancy from several sources as to weather she had a raised poop deck aft of the mizzen. Crothers deck layout shows she does..but several pronounced Nautical paintings I have reviewed of her from Mystic Seaport Museum shows she only had two skylights aft of the mizzen. Do you have a qualified deck layout plan you can share and its parentage? I realize there are extremely limited resources on the subject..since most clipper plans are not with us any longer. Most apprecaited. Rob
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    I will be installing one single fore topgallant sail that will be partially furled(more like wet drying)...and the outer and inner jibs and the fore topmast stay sail partially furled. . I still need to finish the head gear rigging and then begin rigging the stays. Rob
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    Right..the kit is based upon the 1960 version of the Revell 1/96 plastic kit. I made substantial mods and additions to make it correct to the Ferriera. Rob
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    Some new images
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    Yes indeed they are...my favorite ship type.
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    Another Ferriera angle
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    Was she owned by the Ferriera family by the time your picture was taken?
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    The base is wood then the harbor soil is applied...then corner pollars and the water base that is plexiglass coated in epoxy to form the rippled water surface. Ship hull is fit in a pre-cut hole for the ship. I will begin to post images of itw construction. Thanks for posting. Rob
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    Another of the Ferriera at her shallow mooring
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    Here are some recent images of her after I added some more stays and the jibboom.
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    I tend to build ships that manufacturers don't build...and I wanted to build the Ferriera..the Portugues Barkenine of the CS. She was caught in a storm..and her cargo shifted and she nearly capsized..resulting in her dismasting of her main and top mizzen mast. She spent much of het time in coastal waters and back water ports. I chose to model her in these conditions. She was extremely under maintained and was in severe need of nerw paint and maintenance.
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    David MacGregor's book, *British and American Clippers* has a great wright up on the YA and shows hull line drawings along with deck details and a sail plan and some fine photographs. Rob.
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    What I find fascinating about the Glory of the Seas is that she had an extremely varied working life span.....for 54 years she existed among us...born as a rich fast medium clipper...one of the last of her kind...living gloriously, then dying an undignified death in a funeral pyre.....not far from where I live. Historical significance played a great part in my selecting her as my next composite build. Photographic historical documentation is limited but varied..and lent greatly to the success of my build, apart from scaled line drawing and sail/rigging plans...I would have found this build most difficult. Thanks for following. Rob
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    Dang...sorry about the link...I do have some other images you may find useful.

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