Having been following Richard Dunn's thread about building his large scale ships I have decided to go ahead and at least start my 'grand slam model of my life' and see if I can get it built. I don't know why but I.ve had it in the back of my mind to build a very large model clipper ship and the GR was the biggest one ever built in New England. She was the biggest ship in the world for awhile and then iron steamers came to be and the size of ships has been growing ever since. Ships have gotten so big that panama even had to build a new canal across the Isthmus of Panama because the old canal was too small. Richards enthusiasm was great enough to inspire me to go ahead now and see if I can actually build a large model clipper ship and so it is starting. Guess I'll just have to buy a big kit and get to work, right? Well it's not going to be that easy.
I have a book by William Crothers which he wrote over a thirty year period and it has everything about New England clippers that you can imagine. Plans,diagrams and a text that explain everything but you'll have to cut out all the parts from scratch and hopefully assemble them into a model that looks like the GR. There are even a few photographs for the real ship to help me on my way but NO KIT.
I've been able to gather enough info for the GR to cobble together a plan of the ship at the mid line that shows all the parts of a wooden ship and where they go. It's up to the modeler to pick a scale and get his plans copied at the same scale so he'll have a picture reference of what he's building. So that's what I have done.
Now the build will start.
The first few pictures will be posted as soon as I get them loaded into the PC. Norgale
I have a book by William Crothers which he wrote over a thirty year period and it has everything about New England clippers that you can imagine. Plans,diagrams and a text that explain everything but you'll have to cut out all the parts from scratch and hopefully assemble them into a model that looks like the GR. There are even a few photographs for the real ship to help me on my way but NO KIT.
I've been able to gather enough info for the GR to cobble together a plan of the ship at the mid line that shows all the parts of a wooden ship and where they go. It's up to the modeler to pick a scale and get his plans copied at the same scale so he'll have a picture reference of what he's building. So that's what I have done.
Now the build will start.
The first few pictures will be posted as soon as I get them loaded into the PC. Norgale
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