Staghound 1850 by rwiederrich - 1/96 - Extreme Clipper

[rwiederrich]

Great job Rich.  Love the drawing.   Super 

 

Rob

[rwiederrich]

Cutting in the cat heads. 
 

Rob

[ClipperFan]

2 hours ago, rwiederrich said:

Thanks Rick. 
Finished up the bumpkins and their bits. Blocks and hardware will come later.  
 

Rob

Rob, those safety chains are such a brilliant touch. They really drive home that this was a real vessel on a human level. Nicely done!

[uscharin]

Some nice symmetrical wire bending on the step railings.  That isn't so easy to do as I recently found out.  Looking great.

[rwiederrich]

10 hours ago, ClipperFan said:

Rob, those safety chains are such a brilliant touch. They really drive home that this was a real vessel on a human level. Nicely done!

Thanks Rich.  Those little boogers were quite challenging to fix in place....without damaging the existing spindly wooden railing.

The splash rail will go atop the catheads in  the near future.  I will add the iron fairleads shortly after.  

Noticing the Cheppelle drawing a bit closer.  I noticed he set the forecastle deck at nearly the monkey rail height.  NOT at the main rail height as McLean describes.   Probably trying to reconcile the limited height under the deck for real men to do work.  More evidence, the inner forecastle decking was 3ft below....providing that *AMPLE, well lit work space....we see described in McLean's first hand description.

 

Rob

[rwiederrich]

39 minutes ago, uscharin said:

Some nice symmetrical wire bending on the step railings.  That isn't so easy to do as I recently found out.  Looking great.

Thanks.  Not only did it have to be cleanly executed ...it had to be mirrored.  Both fore and aft.  I'm humbled.

 

Rob

[ClipperFan]

1 minute ago, rwiederrich said:

Thanks Rich.  Those little boogers were quite challenging to fix in place....without damaging the existing spindly wooden railing.

The splash rail will go atop the catheads in  the near future.  I will add the iron fairleads shortly after.  

Noticing the Cheppelle drawing a bit closer.  I noticed he set the forecastle deck at nearly the monkey rail height.  NOT at the main rail height as McLean describes.   Probably trying to reconcile the limited height under the deck for real men to do work.  More evidence, the inner forecastle decking was 3ft below....providing that *AMPLE, well lit work space....we see described in McLean's first hand description.

 

Rob

Rob,

No surprise that I agree with our prior assessment. Instead of trying to jam things in without thought as to how people would actually function in such cramped spaces, we're taking an opposite tack and using common sense to sort out how a space would have been laid out in a real world environment.

[rwiederrich]

18 hours ago, ClipperFan said:

Rob, those safety chains are such a brilliant touch. They really drive home that this was a real vessel on a human level. Nicely done!

Thanks Rich.  I thought they would add some continuity to the practicalities we uncovered.  
 

Rob

[rwiederrich]

7 hours ago, ClipperFan said:

Rob,

No surprise that I agree with our prior assessment. Instead of trying to jam things in without thought as to how people would actually function in such cramped spaces, we're taking an opposite tack and using common sense to sort out how a space would have been laid out in a real world environment.

It escapes me others have not concluded the same thing.  “Just glue it together and stick it on the mantle”.   Really?

 

Rob