Building from scratch my 1/280 Clipper Great Republic

Modeling Subjects Ships
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Well…I was going to create this clipper utalizing 2 Revell Cutty Sark hulls…as is my habbit when I build clippers. But the idea became too complex and seamlessly joining the two halves would have been more work then starting from scratch…sooooo.

I acquired some plans(McCann) and began the bulkheads…by first cutting out bulkhead patterns and gluing them to 3/16 plywood.

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Then I cut out the bulkheads

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Mounted them on the keel whaich I cut/made from a tree I fell in the yard.

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Another of all the bulkheads in place.

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I then reinforced with spacers. And built the stren.

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Next I covered the chamfered deck with 1/16 plank.

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Then I began to plank with the same 2" x 1/16 soft pine sheets

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Then sanded and filled in the sections

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Sanded and filled smooth

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Then added the deck and planksheer and rail base

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Next…I stained the deck and painted the hull

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I made a press to impress or imboss individual copper plates and their nail impressions onto 5mm copper tape. I then applied this to the hull.

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I had to have a mount to display the model so I built this unique maple raw live edge base suspended from a maple base I cut and milled from the same feld tree.

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I didn’t favor the bright copper…so to mimic muntz metal that has weathered in salt water…I painted the copper lightly with metallic paint. It represents brownish/bronzy muntz metal…I think

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Currently the hull is resting on wood blocks…but will be cradled between small foam disketts. (Like my model of the Glory of the Seas)

Next will be fashioning the dedyes and chainplates on the channels.

Rob(I built the hull in 2 days and coppered it in about the same)[:P]

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A unique thing about the design of the Great Republic is she had no bullwarks. She had a spar deck that was flush with the side of her hull. She had turned oak Stanchions for an entire rail that went around her entire deck.

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From another angle…

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very nice indeed rwiederrich , love watching wooden builds , can’t wait for more

steve5

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Well ;

To say this is nice , is and would be an understatement . You , Sir , are doing one fine job . Now in all fairness if you are this good , when are you going to start the " Star of India " ? T.B.

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Or, the Star of Alaska, aka Balclutha?

Bill