Pete, the great thing about revelation...is that it comes to everyone at different times.
My own experiences with Glory of the Seas is that, My first build of her was Waaaay off, on many details. Sure...I had the *General* Idea, but I couldn't live with that, after Rich and I first met and began digging deep. My first attempt was around 2009....I even showed it to Michael Mjelde....who held his tongue quite professionally and respectfully.
Your own personal experience can only add to your toolbox of knowledge and experience on the subject. You can redo, or simply let it be. My own experience, is that I had to let the first model go....converting her into a fictitious clipper of my own doing...naming her after my wife. There still remains....even after all I've learned, about Glory of the Seas...slight errors I am aware of. But these will not diminish the overall correctness of the model, to the prototype.
I hope you continue to be mailable and correct what you can and have done......and then just let other things be.
Those who follow after.....simply get to enjoy the hard work you and others have put into their models, to make them as accurate as can be. Progressive revelation.
You've done yourself proud with your creation.
Rob
Thanks, Gorgeous weather and a beautiful front porch conspired to get me out of the basement and away from the workbench. So, I parked it on the porch in a comfy chair, with my wife knitting in another, and I finally cracked open my Crother's American-Built Clipper.
I could have saved myself a LOT of trouble if I had done so before relying on the various kit plans and instructions that I had collected.
Kit plans are a lot like buying a lottery ticket. They only marginally improve your chances of success.
One thing I did learn from Crothers was that the forecastle deck on Flying Cloud was set up to the monkey rail height. (So far so good) But it was closed, not open to the elements. The weather deck arrangement diagram shows a capstan, no windlass. So far comporting with your and Rich's research. In a later chapter he describes Flying Cloud as having Allyn's patent capstans. So, Crothers pretty well supports your ideas on that. I'll just pass that along for what it's worth.
I'm not ready to dive into the carnage it would take to make the necessary changes on my model. I can live with what I have without cringing whenever I look at it. Otherwise, I might start seeing all the cringeworthy aspects of my other models. I'll go with the Beatles on this and "Let it be". I'm pretty happy with the other changes I was able to make.
I found a bunch of other contradictions in Crother's book concerning other ships, or even chapter to chapter. So, the information in this book, as very useful as it may be, still isn't the final word. It is most certainly worth close scrutiny before starting a model of any of the ships addressed between its' covers. Especially where Flying Cloud is concerned. The information on that ship comports largely with that of Rob and Rich where the forecastle deck is concerned in particular.
I found no mention of the naval hoods. That is something that otherwise would never have made it onto my model without their fortuitous and timely input.
Pete
