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Revell Cutty Sark no instructions!

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  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Nashville, TN
Revell Cutty Sark no instructions!
Posted by elzorro on Saturday, March 22, 2008 4:31 PM

All:

 This morning, I was at the Nashville Flea Mrk, and I fell victim to the delusion of "I know I can do this NOW" syndrome regarding building (and rigging) plastic ship models.

I just got the aforementioned kit (copyright 1974), and it apperars to be complete, including a very fresh decal sheet, flags, spools of thread, chain, historical booklet, weird cardboard piece, bagged parts, a brand-new tube of old Testors cement... but no instructions what-so-ever.

 I have found several sites describing the assembly process, but I am desperately in need of the instructions for both the ship and the rigging.

 Does anyone know of a place I can download them? Or can you e-mail me a copy?

 

ahoy

Diego de la vega 

  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:22 AM

I just took a look at the Revell Germany website.  The company makes some instructions sheets available on line - but apparently not this one.  As a matter of fact the 1/96 Cutty Sark isn't shown at all.  I guess that means it's been discontinued - again.

I imagine quite a few copies of instruction books for this kit are knocking around out there.  Be warned, though.  The kit has gone through many releases and re-releases over the past 49 years (it was orginally released in 1959), and the instructions have been revised almost as many times.  The original 1959 version had excellent instructions and pretty sophisticated rigging diagrams (which included advice to make the jackstays out of piano wire and the lower and topsail sheets out of 36-link brass chain, which the modeler had to buy separately).  And, since Revell in those days only did significant business in the U.S., Canada, and Britain, the instructions put considerable reliance on written text - all in English.  As the years went by the instructions became more pictorial - and, unfortunately, less detailed.  (The latest Revell instructions have virtually no text - just pictures, and a generic sheet of explanatory text in about a dozen languages.) 

My suggestion is to let this thread sit for a little while and see if some Good Samaritan with one or more old kits in his/her stash, and access to a copy machine, will help out.  (I'd be happy to help, but I don't have one.  Jake or Steves:  are you there?)  The older the instructions, the better.

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

  • Member since
    September 2006
  • From: Lewiston ID
Posted by reklein on Sunday, March 23, 2008 9:40 AM

.I gotta set,copyrighted 1979. I just finished the kit. Send me a e-mail with your particulars and I will forward them. Sheesh,just last week I sent a set of Revell Constitution plans off to Canada.I should open a service. But, could I survive on two instruction sets a year?Smile [:)]

 

  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Nashville, TN
Posted by elzorro on Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:23 PM

All: 

 Mr. Klinert is sending me his set of instructions. yesrday I was despondent, less than 24hrs. later, after joining this forum, a 1974 Cutty Sark will fulfill its destiny.

Wot
  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Western Nebraska
Posted by Wot on Monday, March 24, 2008 3:58 PM

elzorro,

   I'm fairly certain that I have an original set of 1959 instructions for the Cutty Sark that I'd be willing to photograph and e-mail you the photos if you'd like. As Dr. Tilley said, the construction and rigging detail is excellent with every part named so you can actually learn something from building the thing. I'll check this evening when I get home from work.

I stop in the local cafe now and then just to see what I've been up to.
  • Member since
    March 2008
  • From: Nashville, TN
Posted by elzorro on Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:28 AM

reklein

 many many thanks for the instructions and the "how-to" guide. Now I'm ready to roll!

 

 

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