Vladimir_Wairoa

Good evening everyone, so i am posting completed lifeboat. took me whole week. thank you for looking, comments etc...its only my 2nd so please dont expect much interior is simplified comparing to prototype... ...painted acrylics and vaxed oil afterwards. feeling like medieval monk doing minucules and yet building on mammoth scale. from now on starting deck planking ! Vlad

Thank you Martin, i tried harder than previous one:)

Im late to this as focusing on late period ships. spectacular carving Siggi. this is out of this world. thanks for sharing.

This is penomenal stuff. Craftsmanship and outcome indeed. Beautiful with capital B. happy to see work like these just to see and learn what can be achieved. thanks for sharing. V.

Lifeboat no2.

keel is the start wishing you all success Vaddoc, happy building . Vlad

this is bueauutiful Mark ! treat for eyes.

Good day everyone, There is an update on cutty. What do you think? Im expanding lifeboats fleet also ..so there will hopefully be another one quite soon. Vlad

very nicely put Rob. i lost words.

can I wow? this is the speed i like :))

Congratulations Vaddoc , you have built very beautiful boat you should be proud of. thanks for sharing it on the way.... V.

this work is joy to watch sir. exceptional . thanks for sharing.

Many Thanks for encouragement Everyone. i dug into deck planking, in my case Cutty one yesterday. unfortunately i do not posses a book from Mr. Longridge about cutty and model but he states planks would be in my case about 20 cm long and I have also a laydown pattern. Campbell provides width. i am about to lay 1 mm thick ones, and 5 and 3/4 " - so i will use 6 mm wide lime planks. pretty big huh? not settled with caulking yet but i am about to try first how both metods turn out - pencil or black paper. i have nice auite thick one.... or i guess it will be both sides penciled as those planks are enough wide for thicker caulk i guess... i would prefer pencil as quicker labor i guess but i am not hurrying. not sure what looks more oomph... if anyone has any own trick or so i would love to learn. i speculate how i lay king plank straight and omit deckhouse so i can spare some wood but i smell accident that i would like to avoid. any small misalignment will pay dearly i guess . just a queation pls would you go for tree nailing being it your place ?:) good modeling to everyone . Vlad

Thank you Brian, sweetens the heart. i hope iwill be ever satisfied so i dont need to redo again...:) by the way i remember your lovely steamer chaperon. i enjoyed it a lot. Vlad

Hello. Topgallant rail decorative panel finished and finally changed. Installed. Every section now rounded, sanded and each individual panelling lined with knife strokes. Middle columns bevelled around edges. this hassle Gave me headache but main rail secured firmly withstanding shrouds so no accident. had to be improved though. Next stage. Individual deck planking. Will take thru all summer i guess as summer calls for other activities :))

looks fantastic !

Thank you Rob.

Thank you Phil. I painted her today for good. Skirt now waving in the breeze under bowsprit . Toughest of all works i must admit....oh horsetail i forgooot

yes i am hooked though. it is very nice model ( green) i think nevertheless the bow. deadrise is allright and her "fat belly is modeled nicely i guess. intereting gunwales...looking forward to your new build as well i guess when you finish cutty modded one. gunwales look interesting i have to familiar myself more with these designs , and im observing her deck intensively now . interesting without added cabins as well. i asked santa for crothes clipper book but maybe he will come earlier this year:) previous bw photos of glory i value high, as there was no shade when photographed her from side and straight angle. as well ad i like photo i added from one of her captain daugther family albums. i read in Mjeldes book they lived whole year in boat. i think it was captain that faced mutiny.... regarding glory, knowing now what accomplishment and also role she played in McKays life, not just for the fact he put for last the best of previous himself into her and how succesfull she was beautifuly built and alco so close to survival - i am surprise she is out of desire of modelers companies - US foremost. i would say that would be 100 times better honor owed to Mckay than raising a statue or filling world with flying cloud again and again. world would get know her- her remarkable story. i dont know itf there are mighty criteria for design but eg photos of glory are trully far more complete than of cutty sark for example. for example if someone wants to build cutty upon her older look good luck finding something valuable- no photos existed. just maybe 4- 5. deck photos of glory are a azineg one with black kid facing aftward and photo taken towards fore of ship from poop. even small detailing on wood on windows is clearly visible. i guess there is not much photos showing forecastle details but no problem.... now imagine of some multimilionaire announcing investing of building 1:1 full sailing replica of her. close to heart stop :)))

exactly.for that reason i already ordered a book

I think Mr. Mjelde is very fine designer of his own having this ship in his vein, from his plan also incorporated shallow deadrise showing area of fat belly of this fine vessel from bottom and halfbread lines showing very steady proportional rise of belly and fading away towards stern in similar manner

Just for completion on picture I added Mr.Mjelde design to our group of bulkheads and this might corroborate my assumption from the start that balclutha seems very similar... if you observe stern curvatures, I would not clear out also one other possibility from account....that Sovereign might not have been what MrMckay took as a prototype he might have made new very smart design of his own. Mjeldes observation is 95 per cent in corelation with Balclutha curves though (I believe unintentionally and even not taken Balclutha to account at all/ from bow to stern by curves though .... pics from left to right - sovereign, balclutha, Mjelde, and mine /agressiving a bit balclutha design to go towards sovereing. - so Mr. Mjelde stayed at same less agressive curve of balclutha even milder than mine approach of agressiving it a bit. interesting comparison though. From all this sovereing design is stern tigether with a family of extreme clippers...and He might have wanter to create a something new though... enjoy V.

Whoooa, you are treasure Rob. so far best photographies and im gonna compare that plan :))) Vlad

never seen it "real" before. what a thing.

https://archives.victoria.ca/glory-of-the-seas and what do you say on stern ? Vlad