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Staghound...Extreme clipper 1850 by rwiederrich 1/96

Rob, while I'm not doing any scratch building myself, I appreciate your detailed step-by-step procedural explanations with accompanying pictures. Meanwhile I discovered the ship's bell from the lost Fernald & Pettigrew, Kittery, Maine built 1855 clipper Noonday. I thought you might appreciate seeing how closely your replica resembles the real thing. Since this article came from the Portland Press Herald, I came upon another unrelated story. That was about Snow Squall South Portland's clipper. There I found another beautiful Buttersworth piece. The main subject is the clipper  Warnrer but it's suspected that Snow Squall is the background vessel.

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Peter Gutterman said:
VERY clever! Thumbsup Thumbsup ;)
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I developed and devised this method by way of necessity. I wanted full expression plates, but the time required to lay them...let alone make them was staggering for me. Laying 2000 premade plates would have taken weeks if not months and the cost was out of reach. So I came up with this system....using an old rubber laundry roller, wire fencing and drywall sanding screen. Now it's nothing to emboss pre measured lengths of copper tape. I've coppered 3 models using this technique.

Rob
 
I’ll make the rest of the embossed strips tomorrow. Then finish the coppering.

If I’m right, it will probably take me a total of about 8 hours to make and apply the copper on this model of Staghound. That’s a record for even me.

Rob
 
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