Cutty Sark, Vintage Billing Boats BB564, 1:75.

[DomCee]

Good morning Dom. Wonderful progress, she is beautiful. BTW I really appreciate how you layout and present your build log. I always pity the guys looking at my haphazard posts . Cheers Grant

Hi Grant,
I quite enjoy doing the research and I am trying to make the log a bit more interesting by adding in some historical stuff and any images that I have so it's nice to share the info and hope that people appreciate. I think my scientific training forces me to into writing things methodically (OCD!).

Cheers

Dom

 

[Kevin the Lubber]

The lifeboats would also have been stowed with a simple mast and lug sail, similarly the jolly and gig would also have a mast and sail so I may make up something and add them later

Nicely painted. In real life the lifeboats are covered with tarps, which hides all of the bits and pieces. Personally, I prefer to see detail so when I go back to mine, I'll leave them open and probably just use a little bit of rod for a mast and a small rolled up bit of tissue for the sail.

 

[Kevin the Lubber]

After measuring the heights of the skids from the deck I made up the stepped blocks that go on the roof to give me the correct clearance. The hardest part was positioning the fore and aft skids and lining them up so that they had the correct spacing for the boats and then drilling the corresponding holes in the main rail for the end supports.

I hadn't noticed the earlier post - you made a very good job of the skids and well-spotted re' the stepped blocks. I thought I knew the CS quite well by now, but hadn't noticed these. I'll probably tweak the set to include these in future.