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Bill, The Aberdeen tea clipper Thermopylae is another favorite of mine, primarily due to her lovely green hull. I think Cyril Hume has an excellent highly detailed scale replica of her, which you can find on-line. Her all-white figurehead is of Spartan King Leonidas in military garb, wearing a...

I have to admit that I normally build sailing warships, but clippers are just that . . . sexy. Flying Cloud is perhaps my favorite but Thermopylae its equal. I know have both. I also have the old Scientific Models Cutty Sark, Sovereign of the Seas (Clipper), and Sea Witch. I just picked up...

Bill, sorry to hear about your surgery. I just prayed for a quick recovery. When you post a reply, you have a button/box in the corner that reads „attach files.“ You can attach photos using that method. On the tool bar at the top, you can choose the start thread option. Just play around with the...

Have a swift and full recovery. I hope your new hip gives you great service and mobility! I have a similar Scientific Models stash. I kit bashed their Robt. E. Lee into a model of a similar riverboat, The John W. Cannon (who was the builder of the R.E. Lee) based on period photographs of that...

I hope you recover quickly!

I was just recently inspired to break them out. I was in rehab after getting a new hip and there was one of the Scientific models of the Thermopylae in a display case in the patient lounge. Nobody there could identify the ship of the kit except for me. It was well-built and the Nursing Staff...

That’s a bunch of them. Any pictures?

...60s going on younger than they are. There is no way that I will ever admit to being "vintage"! Bill I have the Scientific kits of the Thermopylae (2 of them), the Sea Witch, the USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, and Cutty Sark. I also have the Bluejacket solid hull kits of the Half...

Thanks, Bill! I hear the recovery time for hips is better than the knees. Keep the PT up. If we don’t keep exercising, we start to freeze up.

Beautiful job! Your Constitution looks great! I just got out of Rehab for a hip replacement in which the facility had a Scientific Model of the Thermopylae. Both showed how much can be accomplished with these kits! Well done! Bill

...hms victory ,hms bounty ,the river queen . Also I have artensia Latino le hussard !848,js Eleanor, the big one 1.100 scale Also Sergey thermopylae Also the rope making jig the motorised one from Poland Also a electric shaper saw ,English probly vintage now ,as new Plus a cabinet full of...

Warning. Spoiler alert. Where I am up to now after about 100 odd hours and two months. Hard to say exactly but worth the effort. Hull of my Imai Thermopylae that I purchased 45 years ago on second shelf

Just getting started on my first wood ship build. I’m sure I could have started on something a little easier, but figured why not just jump in head first. I may rethink that by the time I’m done!

I have been an avid plastic model builder for many years and always wanted to try a wooden ship. Just getting started on the Thermopylae kit by Mantua.

You could not convert the model as her lines are totally different but not hard to make not difficult at all, probably easier as she had wood bulwarks, but as far as I know the only plans that exist are original lines and midship, I have these from Lloyds but no reliable rigging or GA But yes...

Hello Richard, how difficult would it be to build the Thermopylae from the hull structure?

...sheer of the ship, the design of the forefoot is about the ships ability to go to windward. Also the cutwater is not on the model yet. Thermopylae had a round one for example, moulded is the frame beam and extreme is the outside of planking. I suggest reading the log of the Cutty Sark for...

great wooden kit complete heavy plus shipping

...the rigging is there to hang the sails on so why not the sails? In my case I have built other plastic models of the Cutty Sark and the Thermopylae and found that by slanting the sails like the ship was on a tack, you can see the sails very well on one side of the model and all the rigging...

Depayne- I built the Cutty & the Thermopylae, but didn't find out about the Muntz metal until the Cutty was already finished. So, when I built the Thermopylae, the kit I had was made in 1960, with the hull already coppered. I VERY lightly sanded the hull, then added 3 coats of Testor's brass...