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Hi all well I just couldn't stand looking at those sloping shrouds any more.

Kits like this should be banned. I like to think I'm an ok modeller but I'm really struggling with this pig of a kit, if I were a youngster with no experience in modelling I would have given up and probably never touched a kit again. Dont these kit manufacturers realise when they release a kit like this they're shooting themselves in the foot, every new modeler is potentially lost with a kit like this. I'm just glad I decided before I started building it I was going to depict it blowing up.

Anyway what a load of rubbish this kit is (wish I hadn't started it) After herculean efforts to get the landing gear pods to fit I thought I had it then after priming the b#$$%y thing pinged apart again. The cockpit glass is a stupid 3 part thing which I managed eventually to glue together only to find after priming it had pinged apart again (I only hope that was after the primer and the cockpit isn't full of primer.

Well this was supposed to be light relief from the Cutty Sark I think I will be doing the Cutty as light relief from this. What an awful kit I thought sorting the mistakes my brother did on the Cutty was a challenge that was a walk in the park. Anyway here is progress so far.

Hi ok so I ordered a gundam as some relief from the Cutty Sark bare with me, after scanning the stash for some light relief nothing took my fancy so I ordered a gundam (never built one before and it looked fun) Would be delivered by the 6th, now it's the 30th rescan of the stash, hey I've never built a helicopter before, how hard could that be, might even be fun. Answer very hard, anyway onwards and upwards.

Hi ok so I ordered a gundam as some relief from the Cutty Sark bare with me, after scanning the stash for some light relief nothing took my fancy so I ordered a gundam (never built one before and it looked fun) Would be delivered by the 6th, now it's the 30th rescan of the stash, hey I've never built a helicopter before, how hard could that be, might even be fun. Answer very hard, anyway onwards and upwards.

Made one of the ships launches and added some upper shrouds.

Hi all bit more done got the coppering room done (changed the top door as using the kit one and adding the embellishments made the door ridiculously thick) and the central ward room also more rigging on the sail (probably doesn't even notice) but it's there You cant really tell but some swearing was involved in the practically invisible rigging you cant even see on the sails.

Hi all finished the first yard. And before I get comments about the order I'm building this in I know it's not per instructions but hey they are pretty useless anyway. I've added the first real sail. I know it will get in the way of a lot of the rigging but I intend to tie it up out of the way temporarily. I know the lines from the base of the sail which go toward the stern will get in the way but I will leave them till last. Apart from the instructions i really like this kit (yes I know it's not an accurate depiction of the Cutty Sark) It will still be a lovely model of a clipper ship anyway.

Well it was supposed to be delivered by the 6 of April but now it's the 30th ( I suppose it's down to recent events)

I've made a start on the first yard .

Hi all added the first sails.

Sorry mate to show my total lack of knowledge it's the one in the picture (I will get better with some tutelage though)

Sorry to have opened such a bag of worms, I thought it was a fairly innocuous question. Obviously I should have stuck to safe subjects like, oh I don’t know, oh what’s better acrylics or enamels.

Started on a small amount of rigging.

I wasnt trying to start name calling or anything let's all cool down I dont have a genre I wont build or dont like, i have some i haven't tried yet, I will build pretty much anything that takes my fancy (I suppose I get attracted to ships more than anything but they tend to be looooong builds so I interspers other kits inbetweene)

A little bit of research and I can say these are definitely scale models I have seen some amazing builds that would put some armour builds to shame. I've not recieved the kit yet but it seems extremely unfair to compare them to IKEA flat packs

Hi all continuing to plod on with this Made a start on the main mast.

This is the one I've ordered. I thought they were autobots at first , I can see why youngsters like them.

Hi all, as a little light relief from the Cutty Sark I wanted to build something I've never done before, has anyone built a robot before. I've ordered a gundam from bandai (the last of their kits I built was the Pendle princess and the rolls Royce balloon car) (both amazing kits) sadly no longer produced. If this kit is any where near as good as those kits were it will be great. I intending to do it (as I love all things old and rusty) neglected in a field somewhere. Looking forward to its arrival.

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

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.

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.

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

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