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Cirdan

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  1. I really enjoyed following this build log and would like to say that I really liked the result. I understand your reasons for abandoning this build and I wish you good luck for your new project, which I will follow with great interest.
  2. For the rigging I would recommend Underhills book on masting and rigging of clipper ships. It is one of the best sources on the subject. https://www.skipper.co.uk/catalogue/item/masting-and-rigging
  3. There are some differences between the Underhill and Campbell plans of the hull of CS as far as I can see. And it seems to me that Airfix is closer to Underhill and Revell closer to Campbell.
  4. Hello 'Vitus', I personally think that historical accuracy is difficult to achieve here, if only because there are differences between the Revell and Airfix kits. I can't say which kit is closer to the original. Therefore, in my opinion, it is not worth trying to check every belay pin for historical accuracy, since the hull lines of each kit do not quite match the original. And in the case of the Revell kit, there is also the suspicion that the kit designers deliberately moved away from the original, because it later came onto the market as the 'Thermopylae' with only slight modifications. And the original 'Thermopylae' had very different lines. So it is possible that the kit design had to fit both ships. In any case, the revell kit fits more to my personal aesthetic taste.
  5. Hume's Melbourne Model: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/ite There's a nice model of the clipper Ariel showing a very small (signalling ?)-gun (just behind the mizzen): charlesmillerltd.com/auction/lot/315-AN-EXCEPTIONALLY-FINE-196-SCALE-STATIC-DISPLAY-MODEL-OF-THE-FAMOUS-COMPOSITE-TEA-CLIPPER-ARIEL
  6. I also thank you very much. Today it was possible to download the files.
  7. Hi Kyrill, 1. What about the Heller or Revell 1:48 Mayflower? The hull-lines are more accurate for an elizabethan galleon than the lines of the Airfix Golden Hind. 2. What about taking at least one model, tools etc. to sea with you? 😉
  8. I tried hard, but I can't see any difference. Much appreciated 😀
  9. Thank you Mark for posting your pics of this beautiful build. May I ask where you have ordered this kit? Thanks!
  10. 1. There's a contemporary model of the Royal George at the University of Hannover. It was a gift by the Prince of Wales to the University of Göttingen in 1744. However, it is the only model on display there. Modell der "Royal George" von 1715 · Universitätssammlungen in Deutschland (universitaetssammlungen.de) 2. There are many nice models at the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich. I personally would recommend the model of the p-liner Preussen. It was made by the shipyard that built the original ship, as far as I know. File:Deutsches Museum - Fünfmast-Vollschiff Preußen (Modell).JPG – Wikimedia Commons Angebot - Deutsches Museum (deutsches-museum.de) Fünfmast-Vollschiff / Five-mast full-rigged ship »Preußen«… | Flickr 3. The same can be said of the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. An interesting model on display is the Elizabethan warship "Bull", because these flat built galleass like ships were very rarely (if ever) built as models. The builder was Wolfram zu Mondfeld and he tried to reconstruct a model based on Matthew Baker's drawings from "Fragments of ancient English shipwrightry". Ship model English galleon BULL of 1546 (modelships.de)
  11. Hi shipman, I can provide some links to photos of the Longridge model. But they are relatively small (1024 to 1500px). 1. Science Museum Website: Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark" | Science Museum Group Collection 2. Maritima-et-mechanika.org: Former Shipping Department, Science Museum, London (maritima-et-mechanika.org) photo: ScienceMuseumShipping-11.jpg (1024×787) (maritima-et-mechanika.org) 3. modellmarine.de photo: http://www.modellmarine.de/images/albums/science-museum-zivil/science-museum-zivil01.jpg I picked up more pictures in the net (at about 10 or so), but I don't know the source any more. I don't want to post them here because of possible copyright restrictions. Some of them might possibly not be found in the net any more.
  12. I really like the idea of using Aeronaut stanchions. I've always wondered how I could replace the kit's stanchions on the CS with nicer ones, but never managed to come up with this glorious idea, even though I live 10 minutes' drive from the Aeronaut company 🤣. So I have to thank you very much for your helpful inspiration. Will you also use these stanchions on the bow and stern?
  13. The catwalks on the original ship seem to have no steps. The 1:50 model in Munich (Deutsches Museum/german museum) was built by the shipyard that built the original "Preussen" (Tecklenborg shipyard near Bremerhaven) and shows no steps as far as I can see. Alle Größen | Fünfmast-Vollschiff / Five-mast full-rigged ship »Preußen« | Flickr - Fotosharing!
  14. There's a model of the Cutty Sark with storm sails. I think they were made from a sort of paper since the scale is rather small: https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path[8%2F6%2F0%2F4%2F8604188]&call=url[file%3Aproduct.chain] https://fineart.ha.com/itm/maritime/decorative-art/scale-sealine-model-of-the-cutty-sark-modeled-by-paul-s-reed-in-3-64-scalepresented-in-wood-and-glass-case12-x-19/a/5128-88012.s And a model of Thermopylae by Lloyd McCaffery, also with storm sails: https://www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com/pages/mccaffrey-pages/mccafferyimage-thermopylae.htm
  15. Nice to see, that there will be some progress. 👍 I personally like models of clippers without sails: In general, sails for clipper models are very difficult to make convincingly (especially in such small scale) and even if they were made as real as possible there is a kind of rivalry between the hull and rigging on the one hand and the sails on the other. With such small sails, however, I can imagine that the model will look homogeneous.
  16. If everything fails, feel free to send me a pm. My forum name refers to Tolkien's "Cirdan the shipwright". He does not appear in the Lord of the Rings, but in the Silmarillion. Greetings, Hartmut
  17. There is one more interesting article by Richard Barker: 'A Galleon in fragments', in Model Shipwright 37 (1981), p. 44-52. He examines the famous Folio 115 (the 4 masted Galleon) of the 'Fragments'. Hidden ("occult") lines (breadth and depth) are visible in the original, which cannot be seen on any photograph or copy and which allow the size of the ship to be determined. I have a PDF version of it, but I'm afraid to attach it here because of the copyright.
  18. Everything has already been said in previous comments. For me, too, your build log will be a first class reference and great inspiration. As I am not a experienced rigger, my comments will be a little less frequent, but my interest will not decrease.
  19. Very beautiful model... - presented as an 16th century tudor china-clipper 😉 👍
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