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

Arguably I think I have an extensive library on the subject of American clippers myself....And I have read every book from cover to cover...even all my Time/Life Seafaring series(Long out of print)

Rob(I may have missed one here and there)

Rob,

Thanks! I have hinted quite aggresively for that book for Father's Day!

Bill

I wish you all the best and would enjoy being any help.  I compared both my examples of the Flying Cloud and the StagHound and they are nearly the exact molding.  Even the port side die errors of the earlier Flying Cloud are reproduced in the Staghound.  

Here is a rendering of the hull as represented in the book, "The Searth For Speed Under Sail".  Hope it helps in your modifications.

Rob

Rob,

I'm going to try to emulate your great work by copying what you have done.  It will be a great learning opportunity!  My ultimate goal is to take what I have learned and focus another effort on turning the old Revell Stag Hound into a more realistic model.

Bill

Bill...are you going to build a clipper from the Cutty Sark hull?  Which clipper?

Glory?

Rob

Hi Gene...sorry for the delay....I'm on vacation in Arizona...not much work on the Glory...however, I will be working soon on the mainmast yards...getting them all rigged up.

Rob

Rob, That is great how you got those ship parts. That is half the fun of model building. I grew up in St. Louis & as a kid rode the real wooden riverboats.  I have been all up & down the Mississippi looking for riverboat  & Civil war ironclad info.

   I spent 25 years all over the west looking for 1800's train & building info & pictures.We went to the Air Force museums in Dayton & Dulles a number of times when I was hot on planes. At Dulles we even saw the actual Kingfisher plane my brother flew in off the Indiana in WW2. They only had 2 on the Battleship & he flew in both. That was a surprise.

      What are you building now?

Evidently a link or boot from photobucket was erroniously posted or linked.

Rob

How did that photo mess happen? I'm not dissin' the photos, just have never seen a format/layout like that before!

Rob,

Your work always is interesting to view. I sure hope that page 10 can be bypassed.

Mike

Good day Rob,

very beautiful model You create!

I like it very much,... impressed your speed in building model! and quality at the same time!

Great!

All the Best!

Kirill

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Wow...the pictures are all over the place....hoiw do I fix this?

Rob

Thanks Gene.....I had planned the excavation trip for over a year..waiting for the extreme low tide..(-3) to fall on an acceptable date.  Study..revealed the exact location of the remains and follow-up with others who went to the site...aided greatly in my success.  The encrusted iron remains required some excavation(even under a foot of water).  The iron bars(pins) used to fasion the timbers together were so numerous and were the goal of the contractor who burned the vessel.  I had hoped to aquire a copper sample...but I'm sure after nearly a hundred years those samples have been removed by others.

I am still excited to have the samples I did retrieve..since they came from the yard of Donald McKay and were actual parts of the Glory of the Seas...who else can make such a claim?

Thanks again

Rob

Rob, Beautiful model & beautifully displayed. I love to show original artifacts with a model. I used to do that with my train layouts. I treked all over Colorado at over 11,000' collecting narrow guage spikes & anything RR related.

     I have original Florence & Cripple Creek wrenches & switch locks & keys from D&RG.& spikes from everywhere . How did you get the parts from the Glory ?

                             Gene

Hi Rob,

Sorry for stupid qstns - I try to reach your fotoes using link You provided... when I click the link, than I see fotobucket page with warning "album is private" and another one "vew library"... in this library 19th images only...half of them abt USS Constitution...and I didnt find the way how to vew them in big size...when click on the image , nothing happend... moving images from side to side I can only see next image/prevew in the library...or I did smthg wrong? pls advise ,how to vew your pictures?

BRGDS

Kirill

Just a note for the photo viewers out there......from photobucket the images are cronologically in reverse.  Degressing to earlier steps in the conversion.

I thought a bit of an explanarion would help in describing the images.

Rob

Hi Kirill..thanks for the interest....many images are found in the link I posted of the Glory of the Seas.  The first link I presented.

Rob

Hi Rob,

there are 19 th images on that link which You gave... is it correct? nearly half of them - "Constitution"...

try to watch them in details,but didn't find the way how to do that... but models on the pictures looks great!!!

it's sad... not possible to vew them in details.... :( could You make new set of pictures in high quality?

very interested in Your jobs... - perfect!!!

do You have digital info abt american clippers which You could share?

I'm planning to assemble "Sea Witch"... but still looking for information...have a few images only of Sea Witch model,  but quality is not perfect... hard to see details, and habe couple of books abt american shipbuilding of clipper era, but there is only common information...little abt everything, and schematic sails plans....have Campbell book abt Tea Clipper...but it is mostly abt english clipper..

What information did You use when building your model/made conversions?

BRGDS

Kirill

Since it appears my Facebook images are no longer available for this log...I defer to my photobucket library of images of this build.  They are not in any particular order of build progression

Note: there are some unrelated images in the file..just disregard them.

Rob

http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/rwiederrich/library/Facebook/Converting%20the%20Cutty%20Sark%20into%20the%20Glory%20of%20the%20S?sort=3&page=1

http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/rwiederrich/library/?view=recent&page=1

Good day Rob,

Your model looks very interesting!,and description which You gave to the rest of all fotoes which You posted since begining ,but unfortunatelly only last two pictures available to see... is it possible to see them somewhere else, other location may be?

BRGDS!

Kirill

Yeah Dave...I always had time to model..untill I moved to the new house....then Bam!  No time.  Well I'll have an apertunity to have some, so I'm taking it.

Thanks for posting Dave.

I have 5 clippers to finish and an hour to somehow make it all happen...where has my time gone?

Rob

Good to see you on the forum, Rob!  Looking forward to your progress...

I can relate to your time constraints....I've had little time for modeling these past months, but I'm making a little progress here and there.

Take care!
Dave

Thanks Bill....Changes have halted so much work...but the next few months will provide lots of construction time for the Glory.....I have two masts of yards to rig...so after a short vacation to Arizona...I'll be back at it......Yeah.....

Rob(With pics)

I had wondered about this thread!  It's great to see it again.

Bill

I'm sorry about the loss of the images...once Finescale changed their look, it effected my image downloads...in essence removing them all........

Rob