JRGlasoe
New member
Sir
Your attention to detail and clean rendering of your efforts is humbling. You set the bar. In fact, I'm going to re - rig mine based on your efforts here.
But, I have questions, if you don't mind:
Sir,Well, even though I have 5 builds on the bench already, I took on another one. A fellow bought a Dumas kit of the Lightning out of town. When he returned home, he went to the LHS to find a builder for the kit. The in house builder there was not interested in doing it, so he contacted Rod at the model club. Rod really builds gold medal winning ships that look like wood, but they are all plastic. He wasn't interested either. He asked if I would be interested (I felt good that he thought I was a good enough builder to recommend) and if so to contact "Q" at the LHS to follow up on it, which I did. He put the guy in touch with me, we talked and the upshot is that I was hired to do the build. I'm getting paid to do what I love to do! :yipee We'll see how I feel about that later. Nothing like a little pressure!
It is a 1:12 scale Dumas kit, and like all wood "kits", it is more a box of materials than a kit. I've done several of the Midwest kits (they have recently stopped making kits) and this one is similar. It has a 24 page manual with 9 pages of drawings, a 24" X 36" sheet of full size drawings, the wood, mostly mahogany and basswood, and a few do-da's of hardware, wire, brass tube and wire, some string for rigging. The rigging, eyebolts and stuff I'll replace with something I like better.
In talking to the client, the boat is the same as one owned by his dad. His dad sold it to a fellow from Traverse City MI, who promptly sunk it in Grand Traverse Bay. As he wants it to be that boat, I'll meet with him in a week or so to pick out paint color for the hull, color of the masts and spars, and pick his memory about stuff like the rigging color, trim and other stuff. He wants it to be a waterline model, so I'll have to reinforce the frames do I can cut off the hull to the waterline. It will have no sails, but will have standing and running rigging.
The real boats, there were over 11,000 of them built, were 19' long, 6' - 6" beam, 15'-3" long at the waterline with a sail area of 177 square feet. Most of them were built of wood, but the more modern one's were fiberglass. All of them were painted to the wishes of the owner. This one will be grey, selected by the client. There are sailing clubs and groups all over that have annual regattas and races for these boats.
The kit;
Meantime, I'll keep picking away on my fleet oiler build and the fleet of wood rowboats.
Your attention to detail and clean rendering of your efforts is humbling. You set the bar. In fact, I'm going to re - rig mine based on your efforts here.
But, I have questions, if you don't mind:
- What did you settle on for sail material? Even the cover?
- Did you do the sewing?
- What size/type if line did you use for running rigging?
