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Help! I am having a terrible time trying to find good, clear rigging instructions for my 1/120 IMAI Cutty Sark. The kit instructions are terrible and incomplete. I have George Campbell's drawings I got while I was at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, but they are hopelessly complex and I cannot use them....I don't see how anyone could. I bought the book "The Cutty Sark, the Last of the Famous Tea Clippers" by C. Nepean Longridge, but it would take a couple of years of study and work to try to figure things out how he has written about the rigging, since there is not much on diagrams. I bought the Mantua Model kit rigging instructions ($70 USD) and they are much clearer, but they too are far from complete. I have the book "Rigging Period Ship Models" by Lennarth Petersson, but that is not specific to the CS. I have the booklet titled Modelling the Cutty Sark by Edward Bowness, but that has ONE 5" x 8" entire ship rigging diagram and a few tiny 2" x 2" faded black and white pics. I have the Revell instructions, but they generally only cover only one side of the ship and they are not very clear either.
Isn't there ANY good running rigging instructions for this scale Cutty Sark? Anywhere?!
Isn't there ANY good running rigging instructions for this scale Cutty Sark? Anywhere?!

