A couple of building questions

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I am basically computer illiterate so I'm sure I probably posted this in the wrong place last night. I received two partially built ship models upon my fathers passing last year. The one is a plan built Flying Cloud that was in Popular Mechanics in 1927 and 1928. This model, in the construction of the hull phase, was in my uncles hobby shop when it burned down in 1959.

It was saved but pretty much everything but the hull was broken and it has sooty water marks on the whole thing. It has sat since then. I have the original how to build plans from the 1927 and 1928 magazines. Also a set of seven blueprints complete except for the rigging. I would love to pull this out of moth balls and finish it. The last time it was worked on was 1942.

I have three basic problems. 1- Don't exactly know how to clean it to get started. No where does anything I have give me a scale and I don't know how to figure it out. I have absolutely nothing that lays out the rigging for this ship. Any kind of help would be appreciated.
 
I would be more than happy to if I could figure out how. I will have to see if my daughter could help me do that tomorrow evening.
 
Hallo Jim,
the best start will be really to show some photos of the model from different perspectives, so we can have a clear picture of the "wreck".......

You and/or your daughter should take also a look at these small video tutorials, which can be very helpful....... but you will see: uploading photos in this forum is very simple....

 
The original articles with small plans by Armitage McCann are on google books- that should give you a starting point. I think he dis a Xebec or a galley that is like the second model. For removing soot, maybe a "kneadable eraser" or even some Silly Putty. It takes some motivation to finish someone else's project!
 
Hallo Jim,
let me talk about the clipper:
I guess you are very sure, that the model is the Flying cloud. If yes, I guess, that the decks-house and all other wooden elements on the deck of the model are not fixed to the deck, or?
I am not specialist for clipper ships, and searched a little bit around in the web. Seems, that a draughtsman W.A. White made some blueprints of the ship in 1933

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There is on free drawing for free download (attached as pdf), to be downloaded here:

Free Plans: TALL SHIPS

SHIPMODELL: handcrafted boat and ship models. Ship model plans , history and photo galleries. Ship models of famous ships. Advices how to build. Modelers from Hungary.
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and also here a very interesting drawing, which a member on facebook used - so maybe you can contact him, in order to ask about the source:

https://www.facebook.com/flyingcloudwines/photos/a.1540889842648277/1672638139473446
 

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Thanks so much Uwek. That information is way more then I ever expected. Nothing is attached to the deck it's all just setting there as it's been since I was a child. I really want to finish This out of respect for my uncle who started it and my father who never found the time. Thanks for your help.
 
Some thoughts...the Flying Cloud was a typical clipper ship for the era...so, unless you want historical accuracy, you could use any hull plan and or rigging plan as a guide to finish the model. I agree about using soft gum (kneedable...found in art supply stores for working with charcoal) to dab up excess soot. Another though is to leave a lot of the soot in place as natural weathering.
 
Thank you much Daniel for your imput. Those are some very good ideas. Didn't even think about leaving it sooty. It would be a real mix of finishes with all the parts that still need to be built.
 
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