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I can't fathom how awesome it must have been to sail in a ship like that in nasty weather.

Yup, Just….. Yup.

Cool. Thanks guys. Anybody know much about how legendary yachts builds their frames? I would have thought similar but if it's a dated technology….

Looking closely at Lady Nelson lately. We'll see. Need to finish my Cutty Sark but soon I hope…..

Great pic of her bow.

She's a beauty.

Sort out the Father in law first. Then the camera. THEN get back to updating the log for us.

When building clinker planked models, how are they fastened? rivets as in real size or glue? Another way?

Post us some pics of things. Should be fun to watch her come together.

Any update on the build? 

Neat. Now you just need a boiler and some RC gear for them.

Awesome. She's a beautiful little ship. 

Like I said, still looking forward to seeing how the freeing ports are done. I see how you've started them. Looking great. Keep us up to date on her. Can' t get enough.

Never fails to amaze me what you've got going on here. 

Awesome.

Understood on the little detail provided on her which is why I figured any 10 gun cutter could be bashed into a Witch of Endor and nobody would be the wiser. Thanks for the pointers guys. I'll keep an eye out for those kits.

Looking great. My son saw my model of Cutty Sark on the mantle piece and told me he'd like to build a model some day as well. Proud moment.

I have absolutely no intention of ever building such a model. I agree it would only make sense if one were to display the insides of the ship. I was simply raising it as an interesting discussion point. FYI Cutty Sark's hull was built of teak. ALL teak. Her frames were iron of course but all of her single thickness of planking was teak. Her keel was American Rock Elm. (Replaced in part under the Portuguese as recent research has shown us).  I understand about galvanic action and the corrosive action of a metal ship in seawater.  I do however think the composite hull an incredibly ingenious use of the materials available to the shipbuilder of the time. A bending of the material to the builder's mind in that he thought outside the box in order to overcome a set of problems. In great engineering fashion, he came up with a solution that works.

I have always admired those boats. They are pure beauty under sail. Way too big to be of any practical value other than racing machine but incredibly beautiful none the less. 

Simply amazing. Keep it up so the rest of us mere mortals can gawk appropriately.

Very interesting. I look forward to seeing more on the steam portion of the build. I think steam is one of the ways to generate power. Next to sails of course. 

A good FG job does make the grain pop. Just make sure to get it covered with varnish asap. Otherwise, you end up with a milky white look to it. Not so nice. Beautiful hull by the way.

Does anyone use scrapers instead of sandpaper? Or are models too small to allow that? A small card scraper should take that glue off with much less effort and dust than sandpaper I would have thought.

See? That wasn't so bad was it?

Couldn't have chosen a straight back could you? lol