Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Bobby. Never done a sailing boat myself :flushed:

[stillp]

Nearly done Andrew. Only another couple of hundred ropes to go!


Pete

[spanner570]

Very nice Andrew.
Looking the part, for sure.
After looking at Pete's posted Cutty Sark rigging pictures, and reading your own latest post, it's good to see you are using your own version of my much acclaimed R5 method.

[wotan]

Andrew

Don't forget the Back stays, and then you have the Tacks and Braces as well as the Lifts. BTW Pete there is only one "rope" on a ship and that is attached to the bell clapper.

John

[boatman]

So I went with a mix of your ideas, and I thank you for them.

And so, rigging in earnest about to begin. Through tiny tiny little holes with massive massive sausage fingers.

Here's the state of play before I do. Lotus 78 shown not to scale.

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WOW MR Conkers this is truly fabulas an very detailed pity is wasnt R/C an no sails ?
chris

[Bobby Conkers]

Nearly done Andrew. Only another couple of hundred ropes to go!
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Pete

Sod that!

(Thanks for your pics by the way, very helpful.)

[Bobby Conkers]

Very nice Andrew.
Looking the part, for sure.
After looking at Pete's posted Cutty Sark rigging pictures, and reading your own latest post, it's good to see you are using your own version of my much acclaimed R5 method.

Yes indeed. Or the previously posted "sod that" method!

[Bobby Conkers]

WOW MR Conkers this is truly fabulas an very detailed pity is wasnt R/C an no sails ?
chris

Thank you sir.

No, no sails on this one. I may do on my next, once I figure out how to make them look good. Have a sort of plan...

[Bobby Conkers]

Blimey these are taking a while.

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[Steven000]

Nice progress on the ship Andrew, she looks great :thumb2:
Steven

[boatman]

Blimey these are taking a while.

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YES Andrew thats the whole idea of takein a while its moddeling an you are doing a very good job too an its lookin very good an your painting is fab you must have plenty of patience brilliant model
chris

[Bobby Conkers]

Ok, I'm done. I can't rig any more, my hands are too big and I'm going to break it!

Sadly, some of the rigging is beyond me. The threading and knotting I just can't do, so I've done what was possible. I'm not disappointed, and very pleased with the final result (for me), especially the deck. Learned a lot during this build, and have picked up some pitfalls (especially the masts) which will help me create some preventative measures on future builds.

Thanks for everyone's help, it looks a hell of a lot better than it would have without it.

I'll do a completed thread once I've got my pro camera out and built my light box.

[Bobby Conkers]

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[Jim R]

Hi Andrew
I don't know how I missed this. Old age and too much going on maybe :rolling:. But just had a nice catch up.
A fine job you've made of this model. Very neat build and a fine paint job. That rigging though is the icing on the cake. You're doing a superb job. Very difficult to do.
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

Lovely job mate. There is enough rigging to make in interesting and the paint is excellent.