Welcome to my Web site
Welcome to my website. This site is for folks who build or would like to build plastic model ships. I’ve been building ship models for many years and I still get as much enjoyment from the hobby as I did when I started. If you are an occasional modeler, serious modeler or if you’ve been away from the hobby for awhile and are coming back, I think you will enjoy this site.
I chose Revells’ Cutty Sark as the launch project because there are a large number of these kits out there in closets, attics and modelers collections, waiting to be built. Also, this kit builds into a pretty impressive ship model, no matter where the modelers’ skill level is.
The plan is for this site to grow over time, featuring a different model about every month. Previous models will be archived for reference and new visitors to the site. As you may have already noticed, this site is written in a blog foremat with the latest post on top and previous posts in decending order. I hope that modelers will find this website enjoyable and useful and will visit often……………..John
I used some heavy black thread for the lower forestays and thin black thread for the upper forestays and installed them per the instructions, no problems. The next few steps I deviated from the instruction sheet. After installing the shrouds and forestays to the masts, there was not enough room at the tops of the masts for the flags. To remedy this, I glued the flags for the fore and mainmasts around short pieces of plastic rod and cemented them to the tops of the fore and mainmasts. I replaced the furled foresail from the kit with a spread sail from another kit in my spares box. I just did not like the way the furled sail looked. The upper layteen yard on the mizzen mast just looked wrong. After looking through a great deal of reference material I could not find any ships of any period with upper and lower layteen yards on the mizzen mast. I decided the best way to go was to leave it off the model altogether and just install the lower layteen yard and sail. Since I intended the yards to be braced around, as they would be with the ship under way, I tied them to the masts instead of cementing them. The sails were carefully cut from the sheet and cemented to the yards with super glue.
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