Sausage-fingered optimist reporting for duty.

[Bobby Conkers]

HI Andrew got a boat to do eh what sort ? will it be a sailin one or stactic ? as I build ships now in ships under contruction an yes doggy looks every inch the princess
chris

Ahoy there!

Until my Grand Plan is undertaken (retiring, converting the garage and building one mother of a train set from scratch), I think 90% of my models will be boats! We are a naval family and I've always had an interest. I have a cupboard full of kits picked up over the past few years. I'm not especially military-orientated (I live in Yorkshire so green and grey are already the canvass of my life), so prefer pre-metal and colourful.

The one I refer to is the Revell Cutty Sark (the one below). I'm sure some of you will have attacked it, and I want to see how I have developed. I'm sure I will need some help but this seems to require a lot of different skills (organisational and technical) and I'm ready to stretch myself.



If anyone has built this and has some generic tips for it before I start, I'm all ears.

[boatman]

HI again Andrew I think there are two already bein built on here in ships under contruction section where my tiger build is an its I think ken but in real wood like my build an Ian in a kit so you may get some tips off them for your ship
chris

[Bobby Conkers]

Smashing, I will take a look.

[Bortig the Viking]

Welcome, you'll like being here, plenty advice and knowledge all you need to do is ask, no questions are stupid or a waste of time.

[JR]

Welcome Andrew.
Love the introduction. It's great forum of like minded people, lots of banter and help given .
Look fwd to seeing you around.

[peterairfix]

If anyone has built this and has some generic tips for it before I start, I'm all ears.

Go to ships under construction section and somewhere in there is my thread as I have done one twice.

[Bobby Conkers]

Go to ships under construction section and somewhere in there is my thread as I have done one twice.

I was just reading it Peter! The shelf disaster must have been soul-destroying, so impressed you managed to start again.

I note with trepidation your comments on the rigging. At present, my intention is to go for it all, but will not get into a fight with it.

One thing I will not be doing is using those horrific plastic sails - they're already creased in the box! I will consider using them as a mould for some cloth instead - to be decided.

I will definitely reference some of your post as I go. And I already have a question - how did you achieve the weathering look on the deck hatches please? I have no clue about weathering, I've always just built 'as is'.

[papa 695]

Hi and welcome to forum Andrew.

[peterairfix]

how did you achieve the weathering look on the deck hatches

I got myself a weathering set.

[Bobby Conkers]

I got myself a weathering set.[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1111973[/ATTACH]

Chortle. Yup, that will do it.

I will look into it in more detail and try and get what I need from the shop advertised above.

[Jason Crausby]

Sorry I’m late ( as usual).... welcome Andrew!
Jason

[rtfoe]

Jason, you're not alone when it comes to being late...my excuse is I'm from the far side of the moon :tears-of-joy: ....welcome Andrew. Nice builds with the hairy stick and noticed you're a things that float guy. Have the same Cutty Sark that a friend abandoned halfway. Will be looking at your build and hope I'll make a restart on mine someday. You've already got some advice on weathering and are in good hands with some great helpful modelers here.

Cheers,
Richard