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@rwiederrich **** Eureka!!!! **** I FOUND THE 1850 CORNELIUS McKAY CLIPPER SHIP STAGHOUND LINES PLAN!!!! This is the real deal!!!!! Elias Trout, MIT Museum Collections at first replied that they had no records but then another colleague found the plans. They have McKay's handwritten signature in multiple locations too. There's a 13" ruler in the lower left corner. Based on its size, it looks like the drawing matches the carved model in size. Plans include a starboard sheer, fore and aft body and lower hull profile. There's also a neat sailplan in the lower right corner. I have a watermarked low-rez copy. I have signed a confidentiality form and paid the nominal $15.00 release fee to get a high-rez watermark free version. If given permission, I will share the low-rez version. From my digital merge I can tell that Chappelle and Crothers have her stern too round. She's more similar to that on the Flying Fish.
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@Jared beautiful work, both the starboard broadside photo and your impressive ship.
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@Jared it was my impression that you secured these tiny figures from other 3D print suppliers. I had no idea you made them yourself. They definitely add to your model regardless of barely noticeable "shortcomings."
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@Jared thanks for that detailed focus stacking description. You learn something new every day. That detailed bow image is crystal clear. Not to be a "kill-joy" but for the 8 specific contest entry pics, I would simply use duplicate normal shots just in case judges don't accept focus stacked ones. I can't wait to see your beautiful series of focus stacked ones.
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@Jared looking at your 3D printed crew on my laptop, I noticed that their arms are short compared to a real person's. I suggest comparing them to Revell 1:96th scale sailors from Cutty Sark to see the difference. Meanwhile, when you're ready to make your finished model pics do yourself a big favor and take 8 specific ones to precisely match contest entry eligibility. I bent over backwards to appeal to a chief judge to try and get @rwiederrich and @Vladimir_Wairoa incredibly detailed Glory of the Seas replicas (both featured in a Winter 2023 Nautical Research Journal article) approved and was denied since they didn't meet strict photo angles as required.
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@Jared seeing tiny crew on your model emphasizes how large McKay's California Fleet Clippers really were. Great job. I'd appreciate seeing some overall pics of your Flying Fish when she's finished before she's encased.
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Rob, No surprise that I agree with our prior assessment. Instead of trying to jam things in without thought as to how people would actually function in such cramped spaces, we're taking an opposite tack and using common sense to sort out how a space would have been laid out in a real world environment.
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Maxthebuilder reacted to a post in a topic:
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Rob, those safety chains are such a brilliant touch. They really drive home that this was a real vessel on a human level. Nicely done!
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Rob, she's really coming together nicely now. All the realistic human scale details really makes this a believable vessel and not just a pretty mantlepiece decoration. I just received 3 cleaner Howard Chappelle lines scans from Mike and was able to integrate them better. Here's those results. I also find it fascinating that the small Stag Hound half hull model on the Donald McKay statuette is quite accurate compared to the Cornelius McKay model.
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ClipperFan reacted to a post in a topic:
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Rob, bordering each side of the entrance to the main deck on USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' there are these 2 beautifully carved gangway boards. They project slightly above the cut-out gangway entrance. I'm not suggesting you try to do any carved boards, just that you might appreciate seeing these.
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Rob, I don't always put much stock in the full accuracy of Buttersworth all the time. It can be maddening to try and reconcile such issues. It makes no sense to have safety rails beyond the aft poop deck. Duncan McLean, a sailor himself and friend of Donald McKay listed the aft poop deck as 44'. That dimesion is repeated in several other reliable articles. I would disregard those extended rails as being inaccurate.
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Rob, This looks exactly like it is on the Buttersworth piece. Nicely done!
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@Jared you have indeed built a very pretty McKay California Fleet clipper ship Flying Fish. When she's finished, you may want to take these 8 exactly specific pics before you encase her. It's best to have her well lit with a plain neutral background. That way in the future when there's another model ship builder's contest, you'll be ready.
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Rob, Mon Dieux! Is she thinking along the lines of Louis IX, the "Sun King" like the Palace of Versailles or more subdued like Monet's Garden Home in Giverny?
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