Hi everyone, I've just joined the group and am looking forward to learning lots about this great hobby; judging from the look of some of the pictures and posts it looks like I've come to the right spot!
Although I've built scale models since I was a kid (and am now a grandfather and retired) it's previously been plastic kits mostly of F1 racing cars and military vehicles; now, however I've 'inherited' a wooden plank-on-frame model of HMS (or HMAV) Bounty which is in dire need of repair. This ship is about 27" (69 cm) overall length and 24" (61cm) in height from keel to mainmast head, and I guess it's about 1/50 or thereabouts in scale. It was given to me by a friend who, in turn, had it given to him; since my friend is half way through building a model of the Sovereign Of The Seas (in weekly/monthly part-work form) he had no time for this additional model and thus passed it on to me. At this stage I'm not sure whether I should be glad about this because it seems to need a large amount of work, chiefly on the running rigging, to get it back to anything like a decent standard and I've not been able so far to find a good rigging plan for this vessel. I used to have an interest in sailing ships mainly of the clipper era and at one time knew lots of the names and functions of rigging components but some of those memory cells have now given up the ghost! Also I've been lucky enough to have been around the Cutty Sark in Greenwich and the Victory in Portsmouth in the past.
I do have several books on rigging including ones by Lennarth Petersson, Harold Underhill and R.C.Anderson so I can see the sort of generic rigging of the time but would obviously prefer to get the 'real thing' of a plan of this particular ship so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
At this point I'm still at the early stages of cleaning the years of grime off the model and trying to untangle the mess of rigging but much of it now seems very fragile and breaks easily. I've taken some photos of the 'before' state of the model and put them on Flickr - the link is here :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96640387@N07/sets/72157646435592999/
in case anyone wants to look. I've no idea who made the model kit but there seem to be lots of inaccuracies relating to the deck-plan, the figurehead and the colour scheme to name only a few. Perhaps I've bitten off a bit more than I can chew but I'd welcome any advice of input from the members.
I live in south west England but visit New York at least once a year to stay with my daughter and family; other hobbies include photography, amusing myself playing guitar very badly and travelling. I look forward to following the group's activities and admiring the work of everyone. Thanks again for reading this and best wishes to all.
Mike
Although I've built scale models since I was a kid (and am now a grandfather and retired) it's previously been plastic kits mostly of F1 racing cars and military vehicles; now, however I've 'inherited' a wooden plank-on-frame model of HMS (or HMAV) Bounty which is in dire need of repair. This ship is about 27" (69 cm) overall length and 24" (61cm) in height from keel to mainmast head, and I guess it's about 1/50 or thereabouts in scale. It was given to me by a friend who, in turn, had it given to him; since my friend is half way through building a model of the Sovereign Of The Seas (in weekly/monthly part-work form) he had no time for this additional model and thus passed it on to me. At this stage I'm not sure whether I should be glad about this because it seems to need a large amount of work, chiefly on the running rigging, to get it back to anything like a decent standard and I've not been able so far to find a good rigging plan for this vessel. I used to have an interest in sailing ships mainly of the clipper era and at one time knew lots of the names and functions of rigging components but some of those memory cells have now given up the ghost! Also I've been lucky enough to have been around the Cutty Sark in Greenwich and the Victory in Portsmouth in the past.
I do have several books on rigging including ones by Lennarth Petersson, Harold Underhill and R.C.Anderson so I can see the sort of generic rigging of the time but would obviously prefer to get the 'real thing' of a plan of this particular ship so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
At this point I'm still at the early stages of cleaning the years of grime off the model and trying to untangle the mess of rigging but much of it now seems very fragile and breaks easily. I've taken some photos of the 'before' state of the model and put them on Flickr - the link is here :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96640387@N07/sets/72157646435592999/
in case anyone wants to look. I've no idea who made the model kit but there seem to be lots of inaccuracies relating to the deck-plan, the figurehead and the colour scheme to name only a few. Perhaps I've bitten off a bit more than I can chew but I'd welcome any advice of input from the members.
I live in south west England but visit New York at least once a year to stay with my daughter and family; other hobbies include photography, amusing myself playing guitar very badly and travelling. I look forward to following the group's activities and admiring the work of everyone. Thanks again for reading this and best wishes to all.
Mike