I am scratch building the Revenue Cutter Morris from the plans in the Chapelle book, "The History of the American Sailing Navy". He provides many revenue cutter plans, but I chose the Morris because this is the most complete set of drawings. Given all of the detail for the hull and furniture, it is odd that no dimensions are provided for the masts and yards and there is no rigging plan. However, mast and yard dimensions are provided for the sister ship Taney which I will use down the road.
The scale is 1/80 to produce a 12" hull, my standard size these days to not take up too much room. The model is built plank on bulkhead with bass first planking and cherry second planking with cherry used for most of the work except for the deck which is birch plywood. Cannon barrels were purchased from Model Monkey but I built the carriages for them. Colored paper was used to simulate the canvas covers on the hammock rails. My construction methods have already been described in a number of previous logs so I am just posting some pictures of the completed hull and deck. Next up is masting and rigging.
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The scale is 1/80 to produce a 12" hull, my standard size these days to not take up too much room. The model is built plank on bulkhead with bass first planking and cherry second planking with cherry used for most of the work except for the deck which is birch plywood. Cannon barrels were purchased from Model Monkey but I built the carriages for them. Colored paper was used to simulate the canvas covers on the hammock rails. My construction methods have already been described in a number of previous logs so I am just posting some pictures of the completed hull and deck. Next up is masting and rigging.
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