Artesania Latina Cutty Sark

[kpnuts]

Hi all I got this kit from my brother in October.
He started it then realized it was out of his comfort zone, but not after making some huge errors anyway I've managed to correct them. And the kit is now back on track.
Here is a quick list of the faults I've corrected. First he started planking the sides but kept snapping the wood trying to bend it round the bulkheads used so many pins trying to force the wood strips to conform to the shape of the hull that the bulkheads delaminated then he glued and clamped them together so they were so hard you couldn't pin them again so I had to replank without pins.
Also he started planking the deck made a mess of that and took it off leaving huge gouges in the deck.



He used so many pins to glue the deck down


The pins he used in the transom were way over scale 


I fixed all that then glued the deck back on and thought what's that hump there

The hole in the top there I thought was another hatch turns out it's a locating tab the front bulkhead wasn't fully down due to an accumulation of dry glue and wood dust.

This looks much better


After gluing both decks back on I thought I had it sorted but no I then realised he had glued 2 of the rear bulkheads the wrong way round so off came the rear deck again, that sorted I had no other problems (well other that is than getting the rest of the decking off and filling the gouges he made in the decking.
So here is where I am now.

[fordrodnkustom]

Good save KP! You got skills!

[kpnuts]

More work on her, the forward cabins were very confusing.

The steps were a pain to fit and to be honest they couldn't be used anyway, look where they are you would have to get round the belaying pins and anyway they come out under the poop deck (incidentally that is exactly where the instructions tell you to put them.

[kpnuts]

Hi well I've got the latrines and the latrines pump done, this is such a major undertaking I can see at least another 2 yrs in this kit.

[kpnuts]

Ps thanks for posting my Triumph on the front home page.

[kpnuts]

Done some of the panels round the top rails and made a start on the bowsprit, even added the figurehead.

[kpnuts]

More done on the bowsprit a start on the dreaded rigging (all be it a very very tiny start)

[kpnuts]

Hi all let me start this update by saying (in the politest possible way)

F$%# b%$$/%% hell.

Let me explain.*

I do my modeling in the spare bedroom, I lay a piece of vinyl down on the floor immediately round my work bench and on top of the bench I put the container with all the brass pieces on the bed behind me after removing some parts needed for my next bit of work I set to adding some of the stanchions on the bow and heard this noise as if a plastic container of billions of bits had fallen on the floor, imagine my surprise when turning round to find that is exactly what had happened and of course as it was BEHIND me and not around the vinyl protection area it had fallen on a shag pile carpet, of course the lid came off. So after moving the bed (carpet was under it) shaking the carpet out I got this.



And after several hours 

This



So on with the update.








I'm really chuffed with how it's going (I should point out check ALL the stanchinons BEFORE gluing them in place as some of the holes are not clear and removing and drilling them after they are glued in place is no easy task.

[fordrodnkustom]

Really enjoying watching this ship come together. The level of detail here is amazing. Good work recovering your parts. I it were me the parts probably would have fallen down into a HVAC register or something like that LOL.

[kpnuts]

Hi all was about to start on the fore mast, but then thought I better sort all the lower stuff before going in an upwards direction.

So first I thought about the problem of doing the portholes heres my answer to getting them all in the right place.











Then to  do the rudder.

[kpnuts]

Hi all started in an upwards direction, there is so much more to do on this mast.

[treehuggerdave]

What a great save and your moving forward to make what looks like a beautiful model.
Built the plastic Constitution with all the rigging and 39 sales probably 50 years ago. Took me a year.

This will be so nice when you have it done. I hope you don't loose interest.

Good luck on completing it. It'll be quite a "JEWEL".

[kpnuts]

Hi all continuing to plod on with this





Made a start on the main mast.

[kpnuts]

Started on a small amount of rigging.

[fordrodnkustom]

Magnificent work KP. You're knocking out of the park with this build for sure.