Vladimir_Wairoa

Meanwhile starting on shrouds... This torture will be never ending story i guess ...

Thanks Mark!

haha good one , made my day but still not very helpful to my dilemma :))) true anyway I treat her as well as my girlfriend ( she would protest :)) after I put knives and gouges and thoughts in her thousand times , so just dont tell anyone :)))

Hello, I hope everyone is well, Chapter I dont know what Nannie Dee plus voting. Still working on her...hands...What finish would you put her on? Just white? I am eager to try to color her properly. To add Pink face to white clothing with golden endings and brown hairs... how would you treate her? thanks for any thoughts have good weekend ahead!

Thank you for encouraging words Martin, well she has its mistakes but I call her honest build as we all learn, and thanks to this platform and people sharing same passion and understanding I am more and more commited to try better.

im speachless spectacular !

Many thanks Mark.

Beautiful project Mark, very nice work indeed. will check on her . Vlad

Good evening Mark, oh sure, this is out of question I thought you have pics at your pc, nevermind i still have plenty from internet. I bet vurus wil ll be here some time :(, keep safe for sure ! Thank you

Good evening fellow builders. I took a few days off yard, having other things to work on and to take breqk to think where to go from hull completed. I spent quite a time measuring and discovered interesting website about cutty rebuilt in her australia wook era, having lowered lower nasts by 3 feet and yards consequently. Due to many practical obstacles Im leaning day by day to leave idea of seeing her with sails and I think of masting her with low masts up to tops. I intend to fill her with shrouds uo to tops, thinking thst would fill her plenty and provide idea of rigging up higher...prbably installing spanker gaff yard. I intend to make her wire shrouds rounded with tiny ropes as original...you can see on pics how tall it is up to top of topmasts, but i wilp not go that high. Definitely. I was playijg with idea of installing empty lower masts up to top but standing rigging and few blocks will be more colorful I guess. I started again yesterday at full speed and was working past two days on masting. Iron work on braces in full progress, not yet blackened.. l look forward to continue up higher the masts with caps etc. You can see difference measures in same scale for revell and campbell tops - larger is revell , clearly difference from campbell. :) masts are not yet secured in angles just stuck in hokes :) but measured as I had to align cheeks top angle :)) Here is the progress. Thank you interest and for any comment, etc. Everyone try to keep yourself safe in these covid times.

Hello Mark, would you mind sending me some pics around masting please if you have some of those? i did start on that route up to topmast, specially around bands...so anything with detail would be fantastic. thank you. you can email me lehato11@yahoo.com... or whatever... have a good day , Vlad

Good evening Mark, good point, I will post pics of her with "masts" in place. up to topmast. pretty comfortable to move her. many thanks you for kinds words. Vlad

is is beyond fantastic ! thank you for showing it.

Good evening all, not working today. I made 1 anchor out of 2, as couldnt find big anchor,,,i opted for one with wooden part....atached admiral stick from much smaller anchor, and installed nameplate. it was quite difficult and time cnsuming, its made of square brass profile to step out of flat surface. that is from 1.5 mm plywood, not steel. Lady on the nose is not yet born. and wont be so soon I guess. meanwhile I was studying rigging by a lot. about that > I am at the point of thinking how to mast / rig her. But we at home decided that when Hull is ready, its alwazs I love rigging part fart more that woodwork, as played with ropes since being kid. looking forward to. it would give her a credit to get standing rigging up to the topmast at this point. ....and i will see from there......but definitely will do standing rigging, and would like to go only jigs for running rigging.......surely not other sails ....but to the point it is not cumbersome to move comfortably. Despite its longitude, she is surprisingly light / apart of stern. Im thinking of mast her up to topmast. most likely not topgallant. I would like to install jigs...but that is concerning me with forepart of ship. definitely much longer. I could be able to install 1 and that would be pointless. so still thinking. what do you think would be most siutable? she is half deck anyway ! can be 3 quarters masts as well....BUt i want to cripple her to the beauty. well i have to slow down., many parts left so im preparing standing rigging, want to go as close to original design, making deadeyes block stanchions , than I want to solder small plate to the bulwark to attach it and relieve rail completely from the strain transferring it to the bulwarks. I made all stanchions yesterday , drilled hole, .. turned out fun { probably 30 minutes. ) oh by the way, muntz sheathing is started but im not to continue at this point as that can be done anytime when rains outside. turned out pretty easy at this scale, only time consuming. opted for brass , i made sure to buy not too thick to cut with scissors but ot too thin like tape.. it was cheap on amazon from china, perfect to work with...to show yellow gloss...

Hello , yes scale is massive, but sometimes it is too small for me, and sometimes too big. I am at the point of thinking how to mast / rig her. definitely will do standing rigging, and would like to go only jigs for running rigging.......surely not other sails ....but to the point it is not cumbersome to move comfortably. Despite its longitude, she is surprisingly light / apart of stern. Im thinking of mast her up to topmast. most likely not topgallant. I would like to install jigs...but that is concerning me with forepart of ship. definitely much longer. I could be able to install 1 and that would be pointless. so still thinking. ouch

Thanks Martin. I feel the same.

chapter 12, all decorations so far. nose edwardian rococo ornamentations are wood carved and gold painted. hope you like it. I am happy he did rework bow even I am abit bigger I should be, meow meow

Good day everyone, chapter 11. rework. Hope everyone is looking after themselves in these times... I spent whole day reworking on bow part of ship. There was mistake I made when assembling steel sheet of bulwark attaching to the knightsheads, ....and not twisting sheet enough to make proper curvature of ship. I did not pay enough attention to that as I focused on building ship further. But...than I installed foredeck , etc.....and all the time I had strange feeling I am not building cutty sark but she has kinda of Titanicish nose,..I can live with many failures or ommitions, but .bow curvature is important part of design I couldnt take it anymore so I decided I had to remove knightheads and install smaller one to make correction on curvature . I used piece of well seasoned maple from violin neck / very stiff - to make sure it will handle pressure even thin, and fastened it with screw throughout after glued. I can live with it at this point., and at the final surgery went smoother than I thought. what is corrected good is that bowsprit is now not drown deep into deck but short in deck as supposed to be.... at the price topgallant rail ends a bit front of knightheads ... that is unfortunate but I dont care for that. thanks for any comment. V. old bow curvature vs new proper bow curvature

Thank you Mark , i do appreciate it.

Good evening Everyone, no 10. Machinery and bulwark stanchions and windows. There is no plethora of eyes or iron parts on Cutty, but what it is is marvelous piece of vintage casting industry glamour. Unfortunately I am really beginner at iron work, but I did try my best , with an window that I could possibly rework some of it. I would like to learn specially how to blacken or burnish brass, as I did not find any cloloring or spraying satisfying enough to be acceptable. If someone has a tip or can lead me to some tutorial on web on that topic i would be really thankful. I did mix iron with some wooden parts to easy an effort....thank you for any comment etc...I have to highlight one piece that I like most . Bilge pump with its vintage S wheels is an eyecatcher and really characteristic on this ship. I decided to color S supports parts black but left wheel frame on its brass color. I find it pleasing to look at. what I have dilemma are the actual eyebolts going into deck. sould I make original simple round eyes as on actual ship? I have those modern eyes at hume with pins already installed, but seems weird a bit from aesthetic point. what do you think? For the winches or how is it called I used most parts from old bolts and rivets I found at home, also for various size bollards. I put brass nail with cap into bolt to replicare brass ending on bollards. There is still many parts missing on boat like sheaves, and small bollards on rails, I am not going to make now intentionally, as Lifeboat and lifeoats elevation ramps.... I intend to make after I decide whether to rig the ship or not ...and Capstan is out of scale slightly. Catheads are not yet completed so I will post those later on. tomorrow I will post decoration and that would be catch up to where I am about to be now. From now on it will be sparer posts depends what progress do I make. well, if not rigging, only muntzter sheathing remains rudder,, two parts on back deck with window, installing doors and that would be it I wont post decking capitol as It is nothing to write home about. as I am not at decking yet, I will probably include some pics, I did install individual planks around hatches , building ,rest is from lime wood strips 70 mm wide. I can make individual planking later any time, and this would provide solid base especially as original decking is elevated a bit with metal ending frame ....

Hi Mark, thanks a lot, if I mast, rig her, I guess I would let you know if I need detail pics apart of those I found on web.

Mark, Omar, and Others, thank you for interest. Well best thing I could have done was to put her on this forum becuase since than I return back and repair what I did make hastily. This panel website and Your sneak peak look makes me commit to her even more. U thought how to proceed further , It is shortcuts Omar what I post , otherwise, it is long project, Im trying to get into real state of her, so ....Mark, I envy you, I lived in Ireland in 2007, making plan to visit London with friends and I put Greenwich to the list, but for some reason that did not materialised so....never been there yet. Regarding masting that is right on the spot what I am about to think nowadays. I am thinking firmly that rigging would make her justice as well as I dont f. up the stern and nose decorations as those are prominent parts I guess. I never thought of putting sails on her but more people start telling me to it. I did measure her again , and guess what ? It is not 1:30 scale but 1:24 !!!!! as hull is 270 cm.-.....I had wrong numbers at the start. holy ****. at this moment Im thinking this - If I rig her , it would be only vertical rigging to make suitable compromise...so I can move her thru doors.... but even in this main mast height would be 1.80 cm plus her hull cca 27 cm and that would not make it thru doors. I have room 5X 5 meters so she can live there comfortably besides I am doing most of work now in my room, she moved to dry dock:))) First ideas was to build some glass table around her so she can lie in living room as a glass table next to the couch. I dont want to put her next wall as there will be only I side visible. something like center of the room but glass would be dear...ouch...that is far future...I would definitely love to see her rigged vertcally at some pooint but probably not this year. I want to finish her to the point of cedoration without rigging. great paradox is that Covid 19 now gave me desired time to slow and put some more effort...not that I am happy about it. sort of. now controvertial topis. Big model is like big painting in gallery. step back and wow, come closer and make sure you did it right because photo wont fool you, but everyone knows that. :))) I made one grave mistake I had to repair , will put some pics of it.that is pain of every starting builder cut thru finished part, but so far it is repairable and very important. I had to remove bowsprit eye as made it too thick. causing metal sheet turing arout it was too far causing nose looking more like titanic than cutty sark. making new out of seasoned maple wood I had from violin making, repairing it now. I read somewhere that model boats building is art. that curiosity grabbed me to ty it as I did not understand what can be artistic in more engineering work than art. Now I understand better. Of course there will alwazs be polemic how far should one proceed with material and leaning away from oroginal design - but we all know especially with far smaller scales, that big portion of model building is inventing with materials and ideas to help to make similar or exact part as original. I am mentioningit as Specially cutty sark artistic parts are important domination of the boat from drawing desk of the original inventor of the ship orrect? she was designed to be trading success , and her beauty should have promote her trade ability, showing off potential of the company doing thade finantial stability etc....and her postvictorian era decor make a significant part of the boat. Curvy ending of her railing tops, rounded angles and corners.....and most dominant halfround decor of the deck buildings, all this typical for Heydays of postvictorian era but reaminding me start of "la Belle epoque" ! .... sometimes wire helps to replicate wood etcetera - in this case with small models of this ship right? There are ornamenatal parts in most especially wooden boats and in my opinion what is artistic about all this is the vision of maker - to the point how to achieve a pleasing look - there is big constroversy if the goal is to replicate MOST realistic look or choose lets say mode of decoration similar in painting art lets say there was realistic romatic and van gogh or picasso era for example - same for example deck cecoration would be same by measures and technical drawing parts but visual detailing will be diferent from the visual point - hyperralistic or just blurry or imaginary - or slightly cleaner or hollow similar to japanese carpentry look. I will leave this to theoretical debate i dont want to continue about it. my opinion is, but i am mentioning it so you can better understand what aproach did I take with replicating deck buildings etc..... no 9. Dressing up a lady /3 parts - carpentry, metal work, machinery / carpentry - I have to say I did not have exact idea of final look how to achieve important 3 dimensional layers of decckhouses decoration structure, but I knew I have to acheve that somehow to be visible , specially at this big scale you would call me looser if made it just cartoonish :))) I tried to inlay small columns finally. furthe ideas came up one after another...not that precise but hope I did replicate important parts....barebone blonde layer, maple and lime wood, first layer /should simulate original layering but without smallish framing decoration at the corner of each rounded columns lines - thus my deck houses replicate more illusionary art rather than hyperrealistic approach . third layer . casettes with inlays. finally I used a mahogany framing for the columns to give justice original wood of shp so it is there I inlaid doors and stern deck, but I did not replicate it exactly...hope everyone can live with that ...:) I used cap from old windows hinges to make cap of wooden stanchions . - and rest for rudder .

Have a good sunday. e a

good day to everybody. thank you all for your interest so far.. soon im about to ask for advice. struggle continues. no 8. from now on its is almost clamping clamping gluing clamping ...and clamping Installed forepart and she got first coat. its called ugly engineering? well when i am older i will improve this part. at this point bulwark is rougly done. There is slight innacuracy and balancing from Campbel pan as well as original ship as bulwark metal sheets should be applied to stanchions after deck is finished. at this scale i thought (probably correctly to find in impossible to maintain even lines with going original ship building route, there is very little such firm surface to secure ach of 48 stanchions supporting bulwark so that they will be straigt from oll vertical and horizontal lines etc...that would be horrifying effort. so obvious shortcut to the goal is to install bulwark on bulkheads and attach stanchions afterwards...the price paid is this one - BUlwarks should be drown a tiny bit more in body of deck - from photography point. well it is ommision that can be tolerated. as not critical one. I guess so. --- I m not going to pretend exact build. first it is not, and it was not meant to be from start as my goal. there must be compromises that I had to make, etc.... it is not by far without many mistakes as all of you spotted long ago right? so I am right installing foredeck without planking below - it wont be visible right? and surprise" tomorrow - topgallant rail. ! I opted for Walnut ! finish instead of teak. - i like pics from 80 ties more. darker and with combination with blonde deckhouses reliefs . That will be maple , lime and wallnut. thats it. nose in place... g foredeck...plywood 4 mm , oak and cherry ..some drawings... we said it is a cargo ship right? how many tons of tea or wool? not sure but in this case look closely. there is electroengine weighing at least 30 kgs, another electroengine weighing 20 kg , 4 packets of wood each weighing 10 kg so another 40 kg, and some hand planners,old piece of rail , automobile wrenches and all this is supported only by bulwarks. so they dont bend . it is a cargo ship :DDD walnut decoration in place, it will be worked on by dremel further. I made a tenon- joint on straigh parts so it will remain hopefully firm. there is one fearsome details I have to explain. in pic below you can see brass stanchions supporting wooden rails...those are temporary to check 4 cm line. and you can see rather incorrect bowsprit hole....that is temporary. i will correct it later as I had to "rework bowsprit " eye" to little more agressive angle . have fun and thanks. bulwark colored white. bulwark openings to be cut later so this is just prime coat. ther are to be far more. There She is in her batman black and white color....:) there are still some unstraigt lines in iron sheet in front because rails are not yet installed. working on it. so far metal T stanchions are glued to the little bulwark in foredeck. looks like she need a proper dress up from now on . very different work to follow. . always thank you for any comment etc...

good morning folks no 7. after many mistakes I have to live with, /you saw a bit compromised stern ending, ...installing steel bulwark. This operation scared me by lot, as metal sheet must be rounded to fit and must follow first plank gap to ensure its straight and I went for quite solid sheet almost 1 mm to ensure stability of construction . . otherwise it wont be straight. good news is, if maintained so, outcome will be OK. fitted with nails and fastened with 1 plank afterwards. meanwile i broke nose if ship, ouch , so work again,,,,,there is little unwanted dip in bulward right at the nose - for this reason i was not able to turn sheet counterwise any more.... it will be more wisible with topgalant rail installed but will see....first nose making. I used violin iron bending, as it went so so, as its quite thick. 6 mm to be rounded both direction. I did break one , but finally managed it. Intended to make it as original so, ornamentation is to be easily removed if future come up with " another art " stern was obviously most difficult as I had to cut "sheet scarf" I first made wooden guide, kind of mould, and for the stern bulwark I used 2 layers of thin plywoods and metal sheet between them to make a shape. challenge it was I almost cried.. at the end I did straightened it with help of modern device :)) grinder. hooray. sorry for my english. its 10 years without practice. thank you for previous comments etc...