Vladimir_Wairoa

This is very well observed and thought out Rob.

Rich allow me to refrain from racing narrative. it was meant like humor, im not a man of competing in this hobby at all. besides, i cant compete with Robs building ability not speaking of american composite masts sails etc so its pointless topic. yes i was surprised to see email after 1+ year , but unfortunately i dont have ship nor track record of it atm, but hopefully person i sold model to... this is vaguely offtopic but here it go.... even If i had the ship and i would certainly donated it to museum i assume it would cost me a fortune even to deliver it to them ( due to shipping over size etc) ando there would have to be mutual agreement on shipment and tremendoul liking from their side to have it nevertheless, its a fair bit of satisfaction for model builder to get such email for sure i never dreamed of when building it. sepaking of- its far from standard or perfection with planking etc...but sum up seemes that cathegorical rigorous fashion of building and laying all planks as shipwrights do is not necesarrily needed to get reaponse from museum ... lesson learnt. i remember i just put all my love to that vessel fro 1 year of my life . and photos are to stay forever here at msw so i will try to point her to person owing ship now. and now pls lets back to Glory.

Rob! youre quick. main rail is beautifuly crafted. we are just staring at what youve acxomplished now i woudl sell this one damn glorious Glory of the Seas with all her cargo fat belly glory and gracious clipper entrance / end. As i see correctly only monkey rail is to be fitted and you have her.

I also believe its overhang George. cant be otherwise. V .

Wishing you steady recovery progress indeed Rich, i hope you can get some amusement from our friendly racing with Rob :)). Just so you know, it echoed again in my head when fairing a bulkheads that I have to be more precise as Rich wouldnt like to see some bumps etc...you see how effect those hours in front of computer had thru spring ;)....

Hm, frankly im not overenthusiastic.Looks like little moofted Michaels profile, with all whats been already said...extreme stern rise with all consequences for stern shape etc..

You are still detailist and perfectionist Rob :)). Fantastic moldings lines around.

Lovely work Frank.

gorgeous Mike.

offtopic. this is kind of nice. Royal museum greenwich contacted me about my 1:24 model of cutty sark for exposition . well - i dont have it anymore 😕

Now finally some 3 D instalations check - hoods...Im pleasantly surprised how they fit in right from our drawing. ....

Thanks Rob, its been hell of a work I would say. We will see soon how good that work was i guess, well lets cross the fingers

plank 1 guide established. Today I attached temporary square plank to serve as a guide for forst plank. It follows sheerline / waterway, i simply attached by tiny wire stuck thru plank. Line ends iest where hood moldibg follows. I updated knightheads extensively and first bulkhead so the planks meet rabbetline smoothly , and i pushed upper half of knightheads slightly back. Tomorrow I plan makijg temporary bowsprit to hold knightheads firm in place and finish portside plank guide. Awaiting planks by end of this week i cant wait laying first planks. Fingers crossed folks. Big thank for whatever observation you may have.Vlad

just a headup. Seems im almost done with preparations, although there is some window or maybe cargo opening at the side of ship , i will have to make a coamings for it prior planking i guess. Will have to determine where it exactly is. but anyway, We got some unberable sunshine lately thus i know 38 celsius is somwhow funmy for US citizens, i almost fainted what Rich wrote how hot it was there. My god. So i will sneak into my cool workshop and already irdered first batch of planks. I plan to lay first swction of non tapered one probably 10 pieces , 5 mm wide 1.5 mm thick, and from there i plan lining up a plan how to continue. Im aprentice on Chuck winchelsea here so hopefully i learned a bit or two there lets fun begin . Looks like she will be in state of the famous launch state photography untill this christmas, :))

Thanks Mark.

much appreciated comment George. true in it. im lucky you guys eye it from time to time as everyone is helping a lot . Thanks a lot Vlad

beautiful Steve.

Thanks for interesting points Roger, I feel too that painted will hopefully bring her charm she deserves. well im not that good as some lines are atill not perfect looking at photogrphs but we all agree that as much as preparation si tiresome and boring its probably most important thing for planking and planking is important as hell . skpeaking of, this is still my first build of american clipper so it is double exciting for me. Im eyeing build of Other folks here who are cureently building model shipways flying fish, which is very helpful to me as It is even more helpful than looking at plan. I also think that planking will not go to that perfection that i would like to keep it natural wood i assume some filler will be necessary so i firmly decided on painting . to some point i think unpainted would also look very blossoming if done extremely right and using fine woods. V.

Thanks a lot for encouragement Brian. Well rather not sepaking of my skills as those are mediocre at most, but i do appreciate the support. it really helps.V.

You all have great remarks very to the point Rob. I see you as a master of smaller scales and yes I feel i will have to go thru more obstacles following exact plan parhs but still, i have time. i would not going to plank probably until I had a bender as it will be impossible not to destroy stem and rabbet line with 2 mm planks. I have to check planks first how they fit both to the rabbet and around knightheads. seeing Richs remark I plan to fit in false bowsprit when planking so knightheads are supported and wont break. i atart liking idea i am quite following exact ship building which is educationa land enlightening at some point as well. happy continuation with yours

Rob you are artisan! i like ornamenatation very much and molding is spot on, at this scale it is so so difficult to achieve what youve done its fantastic ! V.

Thanks Rich for looking in and caring for this build. I exactly understand what you mean and jus worjing on it knighheads are slighly pushed backwards so curve is the same just little bit offset of main curve. Here is the preparatiin how i out took drawing to the wood... it not yet fastened should it be even more back what you think guys? . I made it little longer so ut can be cut shorter a also sanded/modeled complete stern deb profile for planks as stern is delicate matter i wanted planks to follow curves as much ad possible.

you did spectacular job on stem planking Rob. straight line. I am about to attach knightsheads no process witll be different fingers crossed. V.

Moving forward. Rabbet line carved, stem thinned and Keel, shoe, stem and sternpost assembled.

Issues. Issues. Well, im going to paint her. Definite. Finally moved somewhere. There was myriad of issues with bulkheads i would finally not recommend this unprofessional set of bulkheads to novice to deal with so much corrections. So many sanding to set waterway properly. Bumps ups and downs etc. Still yet I cant imagine shaping this beautiful vessel i without grand help of this laser cut set. Anyway lately i had bad day nothing went ok but today i moved on brilliantly. I dont have trained eye but i used help of photography as well. There is no point to continue if those most important design lines like waterway / as base for sheer are not of great smooth natural curvature. There are still minor bumps but i am pretty satisfied . I even continued and made bottom of stern - semieliptical with help of my bible- crothers book. So finally waterway and sheer aftwards are set - next time i will move to bow part and continue with keel. Most difficult work done, yay still some bulkheads to be faired ..i took some pics to show the result of the lines i did my best to form and sand natural curvature of waterway both horizontal curvature and vertical deck following pattern....no bending there. I cut it off basswood and sanded off. Cant speak how much i value baswood for structural building. I dont know of better wood for it. Stiff yet Beautiful to cut sand and shape.its made of two planks glued up high together... I feel sorry for Rob he had to go thru this pain as well but looking to his outcome he dealt with it naturally and he has great eye for it for sure. Im still new to american clipper / my first/. Feel free to put any comment advice remark etc...thanks for looking. Vlad. Ps. At this point im slightly derailing from model shipways plan design as i wont install sheerline overstretching out hull , it will be fair with hull - its only mark for me to lead planks atm . I plan to glue sheerline afterwards flmadeo f different wood anyway...