"Flying Cloud " by Mamoli - kit bash

Me too! (Referring back to Chuck "The Gavel's" post).
Looks like I'll have to pick up a roll of the old fashioned, aggressively sticky, beige masking tape. If you leave that stuff stuck down long enough it never comes unstuck!
Not a virtue for painters. But for this application definitely a plus! Thumbs-Up
 
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Peter Gutterman said:
Me too! (Referring back to Chuck "The Gavel's" post).
Looks like I'll have to pick up a roll of the old fashioned, aggressively sticky, beige masking tape. If you leave that stuff stuck down long enough it never comes unstuck!
Not a virtue for painters. But for this application definitely a plus! Thumbs-Up
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Yeah...it really isn't a hard job. I always add the rudder pinions to the boat. The rudders were removed and placed under the canvas with the oars.
Have fun

Rob
 
rwiederrich said:
Yeah...it really isn't a hard job. I always add the rudder pinions to the boat. The rudders were removed and placed under the canvas with the oars.
Have fun

Rob
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Thanks, and thanks for all the tips. I too always add the rudder pinons (pintles?) to the boats. Sometimes I leave the boats open and fit them out with the oars and rudder piled inside.
More to come. I'm making progress that I'll post when enough has accrued to make it worthwhile.
Best of everything with your extended family this month!

Pete
 
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Hello Peter, well I finally made over to your wonderful build here. Clipper style ships are always in the back of my mind to build one day. The multi masted magnificent appearance of multiple sails has always caught my eye. I do appreciate your warning in your first post about kit manufacture Mamoli. Keep up the good work.
 
As per the diagram of "Flying Cloud" deck arrangement in Crothers' "American Clipper" book I am including skylights for light and ventilation on the main deck house. The boat skids are yet to be added. I set up a possible arrangement of boats temporarily. Most plans call for three on the deck house and one on starboard side davits (why not two?) We have Duncan Mclean to go by plus paintings, prints and comparable McKay ships, but nothing definitive on "Flying Cloud". So, this will just be my take. I'd like to have them if I were stuck in the deck house for any length of time. What Crothers' reasoning for including them is, I don't know, but he does on most of the ship's deckhouses he has diagrammed. All of these ship's configurations varied over their working life. So, I'm taking artistic license20241113_140905.jpg20241113_144452.jpg20241114_122824.jpg20241114_125926.jpg20241114_122413.jpg20241114_122437.jpg.
Th P.C. Wood Hardener is an acrylic water-based product and makes a good sealer for sanding, pre-stain over birch ply and bass wood, and paint prep.

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OK. So, for whatever reason, the images of the finished product are not downloading from my phone to my PC. :confused: So now I have to get some IT help to get it sorted. :mad: To be cont'd.
 
Re; Boats on Davits. Nineteenth century US Navy practice was to carry one boat hung from davits. This was the ship’s “lifeboat.” The boat was intended to be quickly launched in the event of a man overboard, not in the 20th Century ocean liner context to abandon ship in the event of a foundering. I would assume that the Clippers also followed this practice, although from written accounts by the time they shortened sail and stopped the ship the poor guy in the water was long gone. There are also accounts of passengers being rowed about in one of these boats while the ship was becalmed in the doldrums. The boat on davits was always subject to damage from rough seas so there was no point of carrying more this way than was necessary.

Roger
 
Roger Pellett said:
Re; Boats on Davits. Nineteenth century US Navy practice was to carry one boat hung from davits. This was the ship’s “lifeboat.” The boat was intended to be quickly launched in the event of a man overboard, not in the 20th Century ocean liner context to abandon ship in the event of a foundering. I would assume that the Clippers also followed this practice, although from written accounts by the time they shortened sail and stopped the ship the poor guy in the water was long gone. There are also accounts of passengers being rowed about in one of these boats while the ship was becalmed in the doldrums. The boat on davits was always subject to damage from rough seas so there was no point of carrying more this way than was necessary.

Roger
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Roger, I'm coming to rely on your encyclopedic knowledge in these matters. Thanks, and please, keep such useful commentary coming! Thumbs-Up
 
I ordered some small-scale ships' boats kits from Model Shipways. Both plank on frame and "bread and butter" lift method. I've used the bread and butter boats before with good results on my Baltimore Clippers. The plank on frame looks challenging and perhaps a little large for the 1:96 scale.
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Peter, a gentle suggestion: your boats will look better if you cut out the transoms and glue in a separate piece of plastic or wood if you use CA glue. The joint between the hull planking and transom should not be rounded.

Roger
 
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