revell kits

Heya,

i too would like to know if there is a model of teh flying cloud (the old sailing ship right?)

My dad is doing our family tee and wants a model of one. I was meant to ask, but i didn't get round to doing it...i think...i dunno

Anyways...as far as i now, i couldn't find any, i looked on the hobby websites, didn't find any models of it...hopefully someone out there knows of a kit ;)

Cya

Hi,

No they are not the same. On the Flying Cloud the deck houses and the deck detail is different. The Stag Hound, is different in the deck detail. The Cutty Sark has them both beat as far as detail goes.

I'm about 85% finished with the Flying Cloud, would you like a picture, shoot me your email and I send you out a few,.

Revell currently makes the 18" version of the Cutty Sark, The Stag Hound & Flying Cloud can be found almost every week on Ebay The current fair market price is about 30.00 in mint unused condition and 20 in opened

Flying Cloud:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3113557103&category=4248


Stag Hound:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3114043505&category=4248

Cutty Sark:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3113198231&category=4248

Jake

what about the basic hulls ? are they simular ?

No not really, the Stag Hound has a more bluff bow than the Cutty Sark. The counter of the Cutty Sark, is much more pernounced. Are you trying to make a modified model of one of the classes?

No I have a "Flying Cloud " kit from years back that I would like to also rehab & improve on like others that Ive done which when you look back what you did & now you have more experiance I go back and disassemble & redo them & I need some parts

Can you carefully remove the rigging and parts?, is slowely break it down, remove the paint and go for it. Or look on ebay and get one fresh out of the box,

Big jake . I will have to trash the thread rigging & redo the masts. I guess i could get another offf e-bay but i have this kit & redoing it will give me scratchbuilding expeariance. As far as glued parts i will have to scrape out old glue & try to free the parts & use Brake fluid or "409" to remove the paint.Parts too far gone I will have to remake from stryene.

That's cool, let me know if I can help.

You guys are discussing something that has always eluded me. I'd love to build some of the plastic sailing vessel models. (I built tons of them when I was a kid...) But I'm worried about breaking parts. On a wooden model it's easy. You just make a new one, but the plastic ones. Way I see it, if I break a spar, I'm going to have to manufacture every spar on that ship because, if I replace only one, it'll look different from every other one. And on a ship like CUTTY SARK, that's a lot of stuff to build.

How do dedicated plastic modelers do it? When you make a mistake, how do you repair it? That's something I've wanted to see covered in FINE SCALE MODELER. We're treated to all these perfect models in every issue, but everybody must get a little cement on his fingers every so often and mar a finish! How do you manage that?



Dan
Aurora, IL

That's a very good point. We need FSM to run a few features on damage control.

The way i redo broken parts is say i have a number of the same type of part for example a set of spars that are alike but some are missing I can simply use one as an example and duplicate it. Where the problem arises is when a part is missing or trashed where you have nothing to go by. The only recourse then is either pictures or find info on the part & if you have pics of the ship you can sometimes end up improving the model by redoing parts James t

  Hello .  The thing to remember is how badly was the part damaged ?? If you can glue it back together ,fine . Then get some EVERGREEN plastic strips ,The square ones . Get the strips that are slightly larger than the center of the yard ,spar or mast you need to replace . For the mast glue 4 of them together to form a box . then ,using a battery powered drill ,Chuck the part in the drill ( make sure the other end is braced ) Then using files bring it to shape .You can do the bands wherever they are with wire , or plastic or paper strips .The yards are similar EXCEPT they need to be tapered at both ends .On the small ones use a dremel. File to shape and then cut of the part not shaped , again adding bands where they,re needed . If you,ve painted all this stuff no one will know which is original or replacemant parts .The biggest thing is not to hurry !!   tankerbuilder

A remedy to this sort of problem which works for me is simply to drill a hole in the centre of each section of the broken part. Insert a piece of brass rod of suitable length and diameter, superglue together, and sand to remove the seam. Produces a strong, but invisible, repair.

Cheers,

Chris.

....and then again, it may just be time for a new model!!

oh, this is an old post from way back....................