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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

Thanks. Trying to find a 10 gun british cutter kit for beginners to bash into Hornblower's Witch of Endor. No luck so far. Don't know enough about what's available. I'll keep following your build though. I find these builds incredibly interesting.

Awesome. She's a pretty little craft.

Impressive. Her widow maker is indeed one heck of a long nose pole isn't it? Over hatted much? you're doing a great job of her. 

I was at the hobby shop here the other day. I saw two boxes with swift in them. Same scale, same text, same pictures. Different sized boxes though. Same scale as well. Not sure why one was significantly bigger than the other box. Looking good so far. Keep it up. 

Nobody knows of a good early 19th century 10 gun cutter kit for a beginner? 

I've been wondering how you'd make those freeing ports. Look forward to seeing them.

Just looking. Love the work. She's a beaut. 

Cool. I like that hull so far. 

How many guns is she?

Nice little boat. This one will be nice as well I'm sure. Keep us up to date on your progress. 

Probably best I guess. I probably would have had a difficult time restraining.

One day I'd like to scratch build a large Cutty Sark. I need to practice first. A smaller vessel, less rigging etc. I've built a few plastic kits of a number of different ships. Cutty Sark, Constitution, some old "Spanish Galleon" when I was a really young kid….. I think a simple kit would be a good place to make the foray into wood. I have always liked the story of Hornblower escaping down the Loir river and absconding with Witch of Endor. I suspect she'd make a great first wooden model. The problem is, she's fictitious. I'd like to know if anyone knows of a reasonably simple wood kit of a generic kit of a 10 gun cutter that I could bash into the Witch. Or is there a kit of the fictitious ship out there somewhere?

I don't recall seeing any of those but I didn't get all that close to other ships all that often. Wasn't really paying attention to that and didn't know to look. 

Best of luck with the medical emergency. Hope it's not too serious. Get back to model building and get yourself that camera.

Is that Ariel hull planked in Hornbeam then?

This hull is starting to haunt me. I see it in threads here and there and can find nothing about the build. Sudomekh..... where are you? Tell me more about this model. She's beautiful and I want to know more about her.

My point exactly jud. Fake the coil out ready for running but even then only if the line is about to be used. If the ship is at sea, the place for line is coiled on a pin somewhere. Easily accessible, no locking hitches and ready to drop on deck capsized (upside down so the running part is coming off the top of the coil, not from beneath it). Flat coils or cheesed lines are purely decorative and serve no practical purpose. Everything in a ship must be practical. Beauty will follow. Take the clipper ship for example.