Converting the 1/96 Cutty Sark into the Glory of the Seas

More work completed...I finished the main mast fife rail, bolster, and pump. all scratch built.

another view..with the added fire buckets on the aft portion of the main cabin

Pulling away you can see all the scratch built items needed to finish the Glory.  I did use the pump wheels from the CS...but nothing else...I needed to make all the other pump parts to fit the rail.

And an overall view of the ship...I love this ship..it is so beautiful in its lines...no wonder she was harald as a great beautiful ship by t those who knew her.

Tomorrow..I'll tackle the poop cabin and subsequent details.

I hope you are enjoying it as Much as I am.  I'll add all the gunnels and deadeyes after the deck houses are finished.

How should I mount the Glory........?

The Cutty is getting her rudder repaired on the ways....the Ferreira is in a polluted backwater mooring......sooooooo?

This morning I built the poop deck house.  All scratch built..cept I used some doors from the CS that I had to cut free and grind to fit....I painted out the windows and next will be white paint.

Another view

And the aft access to the lower cabins.  Ladders will be place on either side to access the roof a bit later after the house is painted and glued down.

Now I added some railing

Another view from stern....Paint is next

I painted it all white and weathered and glued down........it looks awesome.....pics layer.

I think the only significant CS kit items I will be using will be the yards...and possibly the top masts as well.  I will be making the composite main masts..strapping them as the prototypes.

This is a lively thread these days......I'm doing all the talking it appears........oh well.

see ya tomorrow.

Rob

This morning I finished with some weathering.........the windows on the poop deck house look good

Ladders need to be installed next.  I even carved the veranda brace supports like the originals.

Just finishing with the deck scribing, staining and weathering.....

From the front......

Looking down the length of the ship.......Yeah..it's not perfect and others could have done better..but I'm enjoying this build...cuz I love this ship and I really want a model of it to go in my collection of clippers.

One from the stern...so you can see the aft access to the cabins below...ladders will be installed here as well.  

And then I will build the helm house......Just a few more items left(aft hatch cover and pin rails)

Rob

I am really enjoying your build! I love your conversions of the basic Cutty Sark kit.  As I said earlier, I have four of these kits and might try to emulate you! And, don't be too hard on yourself; I think that you are doing very well!

Bill

Thanks Bill......I have no other examples to draw from..cept a couple online versions that I wouldn't consider scale. Still..I have the original plans to work from......I prefer Donald McKays original layout.

I think my next build will be Donald McKays GREAT REPUBLIC.  That means I will have to take 2 Cutty Sark hulls and cut and combine them..to give me the correct hull length...then I will scratch built it as well.....with utilization of as much CS deck gear as possible to compliment the scratch original parts I will have to build.

But I digress...

I will add the egress/degress ladders and the starboard pins in the pinrail(I already added the Port pins)

I added the helm and helm shack...I like American clippers.......they had some neat design elements.

Another showing the interior of the helm.

The original design even called for a life ring mounted on the aft portion of the helm shack.

I'll add windows(Liquid windows) a bit later.

Setting pins in the pinrail...aft around the formast

And some amidship.  Note the second capstan....brass oxidizing.

Of course none of us are talking, Rob.  We are all speechless!  But if I could spit out a few words they'd be

WOW! INCREDIBLE! and so forth.

I'm encouraged.......most of the postings I make are rendered for instruction as well as a record of the build.  I enjoy when people build models that they themselves find fascinating and are not readily available on the market.  Plus I love dioramas..depicting the model in some action associated with that particular models history.

My conversions are my favorite thing to do..to take existing tooled kits and modify them to my own purpose.  It does require some extra skill and probably more so......ambition.

I appreciate everyone's comments and input...and I hope my builds have encouraged others to *create* for themselves the model they desire.

Thanks for your fine comments.

Rob

I worked on the 5 piece composite masts today......pix tomorrow.

Rob

Well I finished up the first parts of the main mast.  Painted the composite mast and bands...build the upper trees and tops.....now I have to do it again 2 more times......sweewww.

This is a lot of work for a mast...but there just isn't any way to achieve the results without the work needed.  I tried first actually gluing all the 5 components and turning on my lathe....way too much work...so I then devised a way to use the mill and I milled in all four grooved recesses in the round stock...then I banded...filled in the space with wedges(Like the prototype then painted.

I then built the tops as desribed in my material..and there you go.

Another view from the stern