Cutty Sark by samson - Billing Boats

[samson]

Hi Elijah

 

This is a little unusaly build log becorse the model haf finish hven i got the idea to make this buildlog so all you see is years old stof.  I just in a rus to cats up to todays status so i again can build a litle model in a speed like ennyone els 

 

 

 

although I use the car dashboard light . the is to large for the navigation lights 

 

 

 

I made an honest attempt. but failed. On the model space forum. I was helped with the problem to use LED lights instead.

 

 

 

I was pleased with the final result 

 

Cheers All

 

Jens

[Elijah]

The lights look great! I wonder if you are as fast when it comes to rigging !

[NenadM]

Very clever method to resolve bulwarks !!!

[samson]

Hi Tasmanian   tanks for your frendly coment .

 

I build the rudder so that it can turn. but it can actually only move a little. but it looks good when turning the ruder and see the wheel turning up on deket.

 

This pic showes the princip of Cutty Sark helm sistem

 

This pic is more like the way i build my helm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a little paint make the difrens .

 

Cheers All

 

Jens

 

 

Edited January 11, 2016 by samson

[samson]

I find old used aluminum profiles to create new building material, here it for the cargo hatch

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the gun port door covers put on .On port the  are closed  and on starboard  the slightly open.

 

 

68 dead eyes and other things have come on deck The dead eyes ar from Artesania  They are 4 mm .

 

 

 

The railing is homemade in the same thin aluminum plate as everything else and so brass wire 0:55 glued and painted, no one tell the difference . The one in bras is  1 leftover from Artesania  C.S,

 

 

 

Cheers All

 

Jens

Edited January 12, 2016 by samson

[NenadM]

Extra work!

[Elijah]

Great job!

[samson]

Hi Nenad and Elijah.

thank you for writing to me, and for your posetive response

I am started from one end - from the front and builds toward the stern

So here is the development on the foredeck

 

 

 

 

 

the pin rails are completed and ready for a estimate day to be glued on the deck

 

 

 

 

one of the things I've been unhappy with by my Prev Cutty Sark models were the two netting machinery and bilge pump on the deck

So I've put a lot enagi in precisely these were good

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for  your patience with me and my model

 

Cheers All.

 

Jens

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2016 by samson

[Elijah]

Great job! That railing looks nice!

[NenadM]

Oh man, you are leading me to the devil`s road to try to imitate your work

[samson]

Hi everybody

The bilge pump is a little story for itself

I've learned to sand casting on a summer course at an artist school. the theme was jewelry - I'm not interested in jewelry but the technique i can use for metal fitings in model building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point the are not glued on yeat.

 

Cheers All

 

Jens

 

 

 

[Elijah]

That is a cool moulding technique! Those pumps look great!

[petervisser]

Hallo Jens,

 

I am also building this old kit, that I received from a friend. Mine has the even older mahogany wood for the hull planking which I will be replacing. I enjoyed looking at your build. You have used some original techniques which add alot of interesting details.

 

Thanks for posting your log.

 

Peter

[samson]

Hi Nenad

I think your model work is excellent you do not need copy anyone, it is alredy a masterpiece.

[samson]

Hi Elijah

Thanks for looking in and comment . I  appreciate it a lot. 

[samson]

Hi Peter

Thanks for looking in here. Yes that's right it's the same kit we have and as you say  your oldest when your have mahoni wood. See Adler I built was also mahoni. I was disappointed when I discovered mine was balsa.

 

Good luck with your model build  

 

Jens

[NenadM]

Maybe you could be interested to share your solutions in a topic "The Kit-Basher's Guide To The Galaxy" here on MSW?

[samson]

Hi All

Nenad Thanks for writing. However, I do not hesitate to write on The Kit-Basher's Guide To The Galaxy, since I already find this side challenging with regard to the language challenge. But later meby.

I have now come to the cabins. And all the buildings on the ship's deck except the after cabin is built like wood frames with wood panels and finish with a brass wire as profile list

 

 

 

 

 

I try to build the interiors of the cabins (mostly because it's fun to do) for it is very little chance of seeing anything

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Problem with the light - des more light i put on dek des les the light gloe inside the houl.

 

Cheers 

 

Jens

 

 

[NenadM]

Oh boy, I was proud with my cabins, now I shall go to dog house

[samson]

I had to involve extra space to complete my captain cabin interiors.

 

 

Here's cabin built by homemade plywood. I've got a lot of lists of 0.7 x 7 mm which are glued together as shown here

 

 

 

Since I have problem with the light is fading in the ship I refrain from doing the two lights that were meant to be here in the cabin

 

 

 

Instead I build the deck in this way so that there comes mers light in and there is a small experience of that something is happening inside

 

 

 

 

Skylight is based list of 0.7 mm glued on frame aluminiuns

 

Home-made aluminum supports for the railing as on the front deck.

 

 

This is almost where I am today. hull with its buildings are finished and the next (current) mission is rescue boats and equipment belonging to them

It will be when I'm done with it next update comes and it can take a looong time.

I am happy to have come this far with my building log so I can continue to build on my model at a pace that looks more reasonable  

 

Cheers All  

 

Jens

 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2016 by samson

[samson]

Hi Nenad

Pleas  stay. there is nothing wrong with your cabins.

I mean to see that your model is on a smaller scale? Billing Cutty Sark's in 1: 75

smaller is lot more challenging

 

 

I  also need your help to understand how to respond to a letter where the letter you answer comes in a shaded frame ???

 

Cheers 

 

Jens

[NenadM]

Quote option and multiquote copies post when you click that button bellow, and when you click in your new post, you got button "answer to quote" option which paste quoted text in your post. You can edit pasted text

Edited January 15, 2016 by Nenad

[NenadM]

 

 

I mean to see that your model is on a smaller scale? Billing Cutty Sark's in 1: 75

smaller is lot more chalenging

 

 

My scale is about 1:100 by my mathematics. I do not know exactly because luck of instructions in kit plans I started with (old Croatian *Tehnodidakta" kit with poor instructions, mistakes and bad sutions. Almost after start, I found MSW, found Campbell plans, resized them app. to my scale, left kit plans and parts and continued with model as a scratch building by C plans and photos

[samson]

Quote option and multiquote copies post when you click that button bellow, and when you click in your new post, you got button "answer to quote" option which paste quoted text in your post. You can edit pasted text

 

 

It sems i understand now . Great --Thanks for help.  

 

 

Model 1: 100  That is small. You must have good eyes and steady hands.

[popeye the sailor]

very nice Cutty build Jens.......lots of great techniques and detail.    welcome to the Cutty club!  

[samson]

very nice Cutty build Jens.......lots of great techniques and detail.    welcome to the Cutty club!  

  

Thanks Popeye I wirly feel welcom her on this forum  its a real plesure .

 

Jens

[mike0879]

Excellent work. Why the aluminium for the stern and bulwarks? Your work very good and I have to up my game to make better build models.. 

[samson]

Excellent work. Why the aluminium for the stern and bulwarks? Your work very good and I have to up my game to make better build models.. 

 

 

hi  Mike

Thanks for writing. Why aluminum? It is a desire to make my model as accurate as possible so  where there are iron I use metal -Aluminium and it should be painted black but it is not

 

Cheers

[samson]

Excellent work. Why the aluminium for the stern and bulwarks? Your work very good and I have to up my game to make better build models.. 

 

 

I come to think that I have some noteworthy pic. I've found on the web of a shipwreck some tourists have taken. and when I save all images that could have the even the smallest usable information for Cutty Sark building I save them.

This ship must have looked like Cutty Sark as a sister ship. Built in the same few years where they experimented with iron in the ship just before ships  completely consisted of iron.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi . 

I have ben invastigate on this ship - pic  and as i sorth it is extreme close to cutty sark build the same year and the same way

Hwat i found :

 

 

Ambassador. British Clipper 692 register Tons, composite building, that is to say, hull with steel frames coated by teak wood.Even though this ship, grounded today in a beach at Magellan Strait's “San Gregorio” farm, 120 km North of Punta Arenas, does not represent a shipwreck, we think it is interesting to mention it here, because is one of the famouses and fast Tea Clippers that sailed between the chinese port of Fuchow and London, circa 1872.

This sailboat, along with its similar Cutty Sark, exhibited as a museum in Greenwich, England, respresents one of the lasts Tea Clippers.

As a curiosity, Ambassador's figurehead was rescued in the 70's and today can be seen in the Maritime Room at the Patagonia Institute in Punta Arenas, 

Chile.

 

Ambassador is an United Kingdom tea clipper built in 1869. She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was W. Lund & Co's first tea clipper. She is now a beached wreck in southern Chile

 

History[edit]

William Walker built Ambassador at Lavender Dry Dock in London.

 

Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted".[2] Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo (clipper) in just 98 days. Ambassador '​s fastest passage between China and England was 108 days, in 1872.[2]

 

Ambassador has been beached at Estancia San Gregorio, Chile since 1899.[3] In 1973 Chile declared her a historic monument.[4]

 

The wreck is now reduced to a skeletal frame.[5][6] It is an example of a dwindling number of composite ship constructions. Better preserved examples include:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers All

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2016 by samson

[popeye the sailor]

awesome pictures