Building from scratch my 1/280 Clipper Great Republic

Rob,

Does your refractor suffer from much chromatic aberration? 

What power is it? What's the focal length?

Sorry for the OT questions

10" f/15   It was at the limit for the aperature....not very noticable in my view, however it is present.  Here is a 3 second exposure image I took of Jupiter with it.   I'm not so picky since I use this particular scope for planets, nebulae and double star study.

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Worked on the fore deck rail and the bowsprit." target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">

I placed the model in its permanent display space and looked for and issue of space...looks good.

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Truly, a museum quality masterpiece. Excellent workmanship.

Happy modeling    Crackers   

Stunning, Sir! Simply stunning!

Bill

Thanks friends......

Rob

Worked on the rail today...almost finished,,just the stern ledt." target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">

I also added the jib boom to the bowsprit." target="">

Finished up the rail today.

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Now I am going to put my hand at carving the eagle head figurhead.......

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your good rob , just loving this .

Thanks Steve...I have to make some slight mods and touch ups to the figurehead attachment... it turned out better then I had hoped.

Now, I have to make the 6 crab winches...and then on to the mast builds.

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Some images of the 6 crab winches I made for the GR.  These little buggers are less then 1/4" square." target="">

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really beautiful work rob , can't wait to see more

Rob,

Extraordinary work! You continue to amaze!

Bill

Outstanding work. Will continue to follow your progress.

Happy modeling   Crackers   

I spent some time working on the GR...I finished turning the mast ans temporarily set them.." target="">

Then I cut them down to scale and banded them...." target="">" target="">

And afixed the chafing board

I then painted them.  I will build the tops seporately, then mount the mast, set the mast gaskets and fix the fife rail..before attaching the tops to each mast.

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I have not spent as much time on the GR as I would like too...since I'm working 12 hour days on back shift....but....

I did get the first cheeks mounted and some eyebolts on the foremast done...plus I worked off site to make the hundreds of eyebolts needed for the ship.  Here are some new pics." target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">" target="">

very nice rob

I finally located an image of the GR that represents(for the most part), what she looked like when she sailed down from Boston to NY.  Many representations show her with 6 sails per mast...but these representations are of her after her rebuild.  She actually carried more canvas when she was only sporting 5 sails per mast....since she had the largest yards(main was 120ft) ever placed on a sailing vessel....thus by sheer size, she carried several hundred more yards of canvas with her larger pre-fire rig.

This is the configuration I will model.

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Plus her masts were 20ft shorter after her rebuild then in her original form.

Here is an image of her after the fire.  You can see the dimentional differences." target="">

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I spent about 40 minutes on the GR before I left for work.

I set up the plans and cut all the frames...I assembled the foremast top....

Now 2 more to go...here are some pix.

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I then assembled the top.  It will be painted prior to install on the mast head.

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Dry run on the mast.

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Not being into sail, your skills and patience are amazing. I can just shake my head in awe and know that I'll never live long enough to come anywhere near that level.

I absolutely love the visualization and thought on the base for her.  That is just gorgous.

A true work of art in progress.