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  1. bcochran
    I gave up on that idea. I can't get the wire I am using to look right. Do people use rigging line for these deadeyes?
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    I am stuck on how to mount the small deadeyes to the cross tree. Any advice? Here is my latest attempt.
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    They are not kits. They are G scale garden railroad locomotives that are complete, ready to run when you buy them. I add details to make them more realistic. They are models of actual 3 foot narrow gauge engines that operated in the late 1800s, three from Colorado and one from California. I also add sound and radio control and battery power. When the great clipper ships unloaded, it was these type locomotives that distributed the goods inland. Also, the clippers that rounded the horn brought the materials to build the railroads in the west. The locomotives were built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philidelphia. The autos and planes were from kits. The Santa Fe passenger train is on a HO gauge layout I am building in my garage. I have a lot going and at times it is hard to choose which I want to work on. Building the Cutty Sark is long and involved and takes me away from my other hobbies.
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    For Shipman, Anyone not iterested please excuse me.
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    Here is a view of my modified fore mast cross trees. I removed the cheeks that Revell erroneously added. I added eyelets and made provisions for the upper shrouds to be added soon. I added cleats to the spreaders for the back stays. I painted the doubling per Longridge, but not the masts themselves. I read that during the wool days, the masts were painted black.
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    Here's a picture of my pile of reference material. I am looking up the same item in each source I have and making comparisons and choosing which on to use. I also build model cars and trains.
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    I am studying the standing rigging. I pretty much understand it. I have three references: Campbell, Underhill, Hackney, Longridge and Revell Underhill and Revell are similar. Campbell is different from those two. Hackney jumps all over the place rather than staying at one part of the ship. He is too difficult to follow. Campbell would be more difficult to add back stays, since his plan seems very confusing and hard to see. Longridge's rigging plan from his book is also hard to follow, and I have the larger foldout plans from the pocket in the back of the book. I think I will stay with Undehill and Revell for the standing rigging, at least I can get that done. So my plan is to work on the masts off the ship, add eyelets to the masts where they go. Make any detail changes. Add the shrouds. That is what I will be doing this week and maybe some weeks after. I will post a picture if the foremast when it is done. I am feeling squeamish about adding lanyards to the deadeyes and adding foot ropes to the shrouds. I have never done either one.
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    Hi Kevin, I have been away having surgery and recuperating. Your Cutty Sark looks really magnificent. Seems we are about at the same place with the rigging. So I will be following along with you as we go. While I was getting over my surgery, I built a model of the steamboat Robert E Lee. I have a build log of it here. You are just doing a super job on your ship. I read the discussion about the jackstays. Another Revell error is to put jackstay (posts?) on top dead center of the masts. From what I have been reading, they should be at the eleven o'clock position on the fore side of the mast. My plan is to scribe a line along the mast at the eleven o'clock position on the fore part of the mast. Then drill holes for the jackstays supports aligned with Revell's molded supports. Then sand off Revell's supports and add eyelets in the holes I drilled, and using thin brass rod for the jackstays. I won't be adding sails so I should make this look right.
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    I am working on understanding the rigging I must do. Since I know very little bout it, I will have to study my references. I will be making a spreadsheet listing all the lines needed to give myself a visual of the scope of the job. I haven’t yet made any more progress since I left off, but doing the spreadsheet is progress in a way, but there is nothing here to show for it.
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    We were on vacation with my wife's family when Diana died. It put a dark cloud over us all for a couple of days. I liked Queen Elizabeth as a person, not because she was Queen. I especially like the talk she gave during the war to the British kids living in Canada. I think she was 14 at the time. Then she joined the army as a driver, but she could have been in the fighting at times. The royal family stayed in country rather than to go to Canada or something. I was in the army in the Vietnam war. Even though I was a radar repairman, I had times when I was just an infantryman . doing the fighting.
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    Did you like the Queen? I really liked her and will miss her. Her passing makes me sad. My ancestors came from west of Paisley in Scotland.
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    Hello everyone. I am back. On July 20 I had major spinal surgery. I am ready to do physical therapy. I am almost able to walk without pain. While I couldn't move much, I built this model of the steamboat Robert E Lee. I have a build log on it. So I was thinking it is about time I get back to my Cutty Sark. When I left off, I was working on the masts. So that's where I will pick it up. This is where things stand. I'll post more when I get more done.
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    The display case was made by Acrylicjob. I ordered it online. You tell them the dimensions you want, and they make for you.i https://www.acrylicjob.com/
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    Well, this is my last picture and last post for this log. My Robert E Lee is basically finished. The boats still need to be rigged and the people added. It will be a while before I finish that. Anything I add will not change it much. This what she looks like in her display case. If anyone wants to add to this log, please do so. For me, it is a few more projects then back to my Cutty Sark. My surgery is healing. Most days I am in a bit of pain, others not so much. I don't walk much on the pain days, but I feel like I am healing. Thanks for all the likes and input. You folks are the best.
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    Pork roast and ham will be on the menu this trip.
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    Freight is aboard.
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    Complete except rigging the boats and adding any people and freight.
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    This is from a book titled "Come Hell or High Water" by Michael Gellespie. It describes what the boats looked like. My boat very much like it. An occasional touch of color offered pleasant relief from the glaring white superstructure of most boats. Decks and roofs often were darkened with shades of blue. Many steamers featured a red stripe painted lengthwise on their white hulls. A few boats sported red or green hulls with a corresponding white stripe. The famous Natchez established a singular tradition with her trademark red chimneys. The most aesthetically pleasing opportunity for adding color to the boats’ exteriors came in the design and adornment of paddlewheel housings. Here, bold and husky letters, with bright-colored shadowing, visually shouted a boat’s name to all that came in view. Sometimes the name of the packet company or the points of destination would appear in an arc along the edge of the housings, and paintings frequently graced the wheelhouse sides. These works of commercial art ranged from simple sunburst patterns to intricate murals that in some way depicted or elaborated the name of the boat. The display of banners and flags was another means of adding color and distinction. Besides the jackstaff on the bow and the verge-staff on the stern, there were flagstaffs near the wheelhouses and sometimes aft of the pilothouse. The national colors flew at the verge; brightly embellished pennants heralding the name of the boat and the principal cities it served waved from the other staffs. Etiquette suggested that the city or person for which the boat was named should donate the banners when the steamer made her first home port call. It was all very flashy, all very colorful, and of course, all intended to attract business.12
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    Rigging in process.
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    I am working on the rigging. I haven't gotten it to my liking, but I will soon.
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    The stern work yawl is done.
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    Here is some freight going on board the Lee. Painted, washed with artist oils, then dry brushed.
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    Fastest On the River by Manly Wade Wellman Willie Japer's Golden Eagle by F N Monjo The Great American Steamboat Race by Benton Rain Patterson The Great Steam Boat Race by Roy L Barkhau Way's Packet Directory 1848 - 1883 by Jr Frederick Way The Western Rivers Steamboat Cyclopedium by Alan L Bates https://www.steamboats.com/museum/ https://steamboats.com/research/index.html The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920, by Joan W. Gandy, Thomas H. Gandy Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World Thomas C. Buchanan Funny thing, Wellman always refers to the main deck where the boilers as the boiler deck.
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    Well the stage rigging that I did is remove., I am going to try to do better with thinner thread. So I still have yawls and stage rigging to do. I wouldn't be happy if I didn't do a re-do.
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    Just a small piece of this rigging needs to be done. I think the quality of it doesn't measure up to the rest of the boat. I think my line is too thick. It's easy for me to do it over, since it's held together with water salable white glue. I am going to do it over with a thinner line. It just doesn't measure up to the rest of the boat. I am reaching the point where I want this build to be over. I have the yawls to rig and add any people and freight.

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