Bill97
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Bonedoctor, your Cutty Sark is beautiful!! Is that a Revell 1:96, or a different one? Your deck is incredible. Is that paint or wood veneer? I know you said the scale of the Revell was to small to try to use veneer b
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Wow! That is beautiful! Great job. I have ordered my Heller HMS Victory and will begin later this his year after I finish the Cutty Sark I am currently working on. I have read on various sites that the Heller instructions are not in English. Is that correct? And if so, how difficult did that make the construction?
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I have many of the build but I don’t want to bore everyone who has also built the Constitution. Many doing a much better job than me. But here are just a few more.
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Thanks everybody for the kind remarks. I did this model about 50 years ago as a teenager. No idea what came of it. Talked about it from time to time. Daughter surprised me with a new kit last Christmas. Here are a few more photos.
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I recently completed my Ravell USS Constitution I received as a Christmas gift. Five months of work. I am pleased with it. Like most on here I opted to leave the sails off so as to better see the rigging. I am about to start the Ravell Cutty Sark. When I did the Constitution I did not paint the deck. Just left it the cream color right out of the box. For the Cutty Sark I have decided to paint the deck as I have seen a number of modelers do. I was looking on line for hints and ideas and stumbled onto this blog, which I had no idea existed when I did the Constitution. Wish I had. Reading over it now I see a number of ideas and hints I would have employed. Will definitely refer to it during my Cutty Sark build. I have seen several recommended methods for painting the deck and plan to practice them to see which method I am the best at. I have a full pallet of enamel paints I use for my models. Have not tried acrylics, which many recommend. Just my sheer quantity and variety of enamel paints would make starting over with acrylic cost prohibitive. I need to find advice on how to make my own white or dark enamel wash. A number of you use that as a final step when painting the deck.
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Good morning. Just stumbled on your blog. I recently completed the Revell 1/96 USS Constitution and now getting ready to begin the Cutty Sark. Like you, I prefer to leave the sails off so as to see the rigging, which the Constitution had tons of. On the Constitution I did not paint the deck. Just left it the cream color of the plastic. However, after reading your blog and others I am interested in painting the deck on the Cutty Sark. I am wondering if you would mind explaining in more detail how you did yours?
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