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Winova, Thermopylae is my favorite of the Clippers followed by Flying Cloud and Sea Witch. Robs Stag Hound is a great model as well! However, the warships are my favorites. Bill

I can sympathise with the sentiment that once you discover that your build to date has inaccuracies you lose interest. I had a Thermopylae like that. Then the hull and masts moved house several times, a cat head got lost, and figurative rot set in until it went to the breakers. Nowadays...

After watching videos like these, I always sit down with my model—I currently have a Preussen, a five-masted barque, on the slipway, and I'm trying to capture that power and grace in 1:96 scale. Has anyone else been inspired by these old films for a new project?

I obtained a photo of the Thermopylae that I built a few years ago and it is identical to the ship in your photo. Hope this will satisfy all , Beast regards Winova

I built the Thermopylae several years ago and the model shown looks just like my model, therefore I agree with others that it is most likely the Thermopylae. Cheers Winova

I believe that it’s supposed to be Thermopylae. Photo below for comparison

I agree with Brian. More likely it’s a 19th-century clipper or merchant barque model, possibly based on a vessel like the Thermopylae, Cutty Sark, or a fictional clipper-style ship built for display.

It could be the tea clipper Thermopylae.

...solution. - Incidentally, I've never quite forgiven Steel for giving me incorrect information about the standing rigging for my 'Thermopylae' back in 1974. In his defence though, I didn't know better. But I was never happy with that model, despite my errors being invisible. I knew it...

...which a couple of YouTube bloggers were recommending. My last ship was probably the Airfix Great Western in the 1970s. I have a Sergal Thermopylae that I bought at least 20 years ago in the back of a cupboard but never started. I found some of the rigging I was looking for, thanks to this...

...kit by Mantua. From what I've In other words, the Mantua is the , it is a very nice kit that builds into a reasonable model of the Thermopylae. The only other kit that builds into a reasonable model of this ship is the old Scientific solid hull model that is long out of production. The old...

...the look of the original schooner on the starboard side. A little deeper into my history starts with a Revell kit of the clipper ship Thermopylae when I was 16, 60 years ago. I still have that model. Skip to the last 7 years… A friend at the Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax asked a...

I have the kit and was trying to find the scale of the model. Guessing 1:96? Also, is the rigging line accurate?

I've cannibalized dozens of Revell models....from CS, Thermopylae, to Constitution. Old Marx kits of Swordfish to Seawitch, Old broken Model shipways kits to just unrepairable kits , both wood and plastic. I'll buy or be gifted peoples junk, just to scavenge parts and fixtures from them...

...of these shows, I hope you'll share some with us. This may sound like sacrilege on a wooden ship model but here goes. Revell makes highly accurate ship's boats for their 1:96th scale Cutty Sark or  Thermopylae models. Painted with the right semi-gloss paints, they'd provide decent replacements.

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Welcome! The Scientific kit of Thermopylae is a nice kit that is easily detailed. I was in rehab following surgery earlier this year and there was a completed that was on display in the lounge that was superbly built. The Scientific kit of the Constitution is a little more basic. There is no...

...is all that is needed. And paint covers a multitude of sin. I also fudge using preformed blocks, I’ve scavenged off old Cutty Sark an Thermopylae models. They are cleaned up, they are painted various wood colors and then their stropping is highlighted. I attach eyebolts and hooks when...

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Bonetta, That is a beautiful model of the "Wee Bonnie" Scottish, Clyde built Tea Clipper Cutty Sark.