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Pete! Excellent! You're in the groove! I love hearing that!Thanks. Feeling motivated lately. Everything seems to be working on the first try. All steps forward, no steps back.
"Flying Cloud " by Mamoli - kit bash
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Sounds very good - and your model is also looking very goodThanks. Feeling motivated lately. Everything seems to be working on the first try. All steps forward, no steps back.
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Well, as for "All steps forward, no steps back", I Installed the upper bulwarks (above the main rail) and went to install the upper bulwark counter with its attached railing and couldn't find it to save my life. The gremlins got it and hid it somewhere in the pile of assembled detritus on my work bench. After an hour or more of searching and cursing, I surrendered to the maxim" Never spend more time searching for a lost part than it takes to make a new one," which I did. I then promptly unearthed the original, which was hiding in plain sight, having been placed there by the snickering gremlins.
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As it turned out, I liked the second iteration of the upper bulwark counter better than the first and used that. the outside of the upper bulwarks is painted white. The inside painted "pearl" as described as the color of the insides of the bulwarks in one of the rare reliable descriptions of the original "Flying Cloud".
Apparently, these fancy ships were adorned with designer colors of the day, but who knows what "Pearl" actually looked like, So I made a mixture of "Porcelain White" and Martha Stewart " Lake Mist" light gray. (No doubt Martha had a hand in mixing the original "pearl' color from 1853).
.As it turned out, I liked the second iteration of the upper bulwark counter better than the first and used that. the outside of the upper bulwarks is painted white. The inside painted "pearl" as described as the color of the insides of the bulwarks in one of the rare reliable descriptions of the original "Flying Cloud".
Apparently, these fancy ships were adorned with designer colors of the day, but who knows what "Pearl" actually looked like, So I made a mixture of "Porcelain White" and Martha Stewart " Lake Mist" light gray. (No doubt Martha had a hand in mixing the original "pearl' color from 1853).
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What follows is the installation of the upper bulwarks, sans railings, save for the counter. The railing on the first iteration was too narrow which I corrected as 3/16 " wide for the second. I added the mahogany molded extensions of the railings to the bow and milled the 1/16" square strips to make the upper bulwark railings and stanchions. I decided to make the stanchions a finished mahogany (like the railings) for the contrast. They likely would have been colored the same Pearl as the inside of the bulwark. But since there exists no definitive contemporary description of the Flying Cloud, I am using artistic license for these decisions. three 1/16" mahogany strips will be glued side by side to make the railings.
