HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 by Chuck - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - kit prototype
This will mark the beginning of my project to build the prototype for the Cutter Cheerful. The plans are completed and I am getting ready to release the plans in a few months. I will be building her out of Boxwood or possibly even Pau marfin. I havent decided. This project is a POB build as you can see from the details in the plans posted below. Its not a very cumbersome project with just a cutter rig to deal with. She is carvel planked and not Clinker planked. This is one of the reasons
Assembling the anchors was kinda fun. Rather than buy some commercially I decided to design and make my own mini kit. I am never really happy with the usual castings commercially available. The anchors were made to strict proportions and rather than try and fix a casting I buy somewhere I figured I would just make them from scratch out of boxwood. My metal working skills are not up to par with some others and once completed the wood anchor will look just as good. Its all about painting it p
