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This inexpensive plan may be of interest to some of you - £2 download - Written by myself
Sauturday 21st June, 2024 Barque Glenbank. I have finally completed the Glenbank download and it is immediately available via this link https://payhip.com/b/CcVAy At a cost of £2. Please click the link below to read the synopsis, and the, if you wish to purchase a download, a button is provided in the synopsis fo £2 - Paypal or cards.… See more Barque Glenbank Ship Plans issue Nr 11 payhip.com Barque Glenbank Ship Plans issue Nr 11 British barque GlenbankThis download is the eleventh in my series of Merchant Ship plans.It covers the story of the wreck of the Glenbank in 1911 off the coast of Australia.The wreck was recently located, and has received a fair amount of publicity i... payhip.com Barque Glenbank Ship Plans issue Nr 11 British barque GlenbankThis download is the eleventh in my series of Merchant Ship plans.It covers the story of the wreck of the Glenbank in 1911 off the coast of Australia.The wreck was recently located, and has received a fair amount of publicity i...

Yes it did.     New Zealand and Australia from the UK was its trading route.   She belonged to Henderson, and they had a few sailing ships with New Zealand names - Dunedin, Canterbury, Invercargill, Auckland, Nelson, Wellington, Oamaru and Timaru.     Some of them were the first ships to carry frozen meat home from NZ using dry air compressers powered by coal, even though the ships were only propelled by sail.   Dunedin carried the first frozen lamb carcasses in 1882, leaving Port Chalmers on February 15th, and arriving in London on May 26th, with the cargo in perfect condition.  
It is a great pity that very few modellers are interested in these magnificent iron and steel sailing shipsof the late 19th century.
The square ports on the sides were just painted on for decoration, they did not conceal guns!
Bob

It is probably meant to be Germany's Flying P Line five masted barque Potosi, but these big five masters do not lend themselves to putting in bottles on account of their complexity -
This is what the Potosi should look like:   Drawing by me!
 

Very nice!     Complicated build for a bottle.    Here is my much  larger Archibald Russell at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300).   One valuable tip that will work for a SIB regards the painted ports and the black stripe underneath.      The white band was cut from a sheet of good quality paper and the black stripe ruled on with black ink.   The painted ports were small squares of black carbon paper cut out and stuck on with the black uppermost.   The band, complete with painted ports and black stripe was then stuck on the hull.    It makes a very neat job and is OK for all scales.
Bob
 

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Thank you.   The blocks are just tiny blobs of paint.   Model rigged with fine copper wire just glued on in short lengths - no knots anywhere.   I never build ships in bottles though, so I don't have much to say here.   Not all that difficult with special techniques, but totally unsuitable for ships in bottles.
All my special techniques are contained in these downloads,  Catalogue link below - most of which are available for less than the price of a cup of coffee: 
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Thank you.   The blocks are just tiny blobs of paint.   Model rigged with fine copper wire just glued on in short lengths - no knots anywhere.   I never build ships in bottles though, so I don't have much to say here.   Not all that difficult with special techniques, but totally unsuitable for ships in bottles.
All my special techniques are contained in these downloads,  Catalogue link below - most of which are available for less than the price of a cup of coffee: 
Catalogue  

British Tea Clipper Norman Court, 32 feet to one inch.
Bob
 

British Tea Clipper Norman Court, 32 feet to one inch.
Bob
 

That is a beautiful little model in all respects.   It never ceases to amaze me how little interest is shown in masterpieces like this.     It really is a superb build -     

Excellent. I do need to get a move-on with her, I’d like to have her finished, and HMS Vindictive finished by the IPMS show here in the US in August 

I no longer Build kits either, I like a nice old imperial scale, something easily divisible by 12, and this really gets up folk’s ire at times. I do it as a nod to tradition, they don’t seem to understand anything about tradition. 
 
Im glad you like Bounty though, and for the kind words, indeed. I’ll post a build thread of the current project shortly, IJN Kongo, 1944

Greetings 
 
I thought it would be fun to share my work in progress photos of the Japanese battleship Kongō, as she appeared in early 1944. The model is built entirely from boxwood and brass, and measures about 5.5 inches. The base is made from spalted tamarind and Patagonian rosewood. There is also a glass case which fits over the base. 
 
The model is scaled to 125’ to the inch, or 1/1500. This model is relying heavily on photo etched brass parts, which I have made myself. In addition to the many boxwood, brass wire, and brass stick parts, there are over 2,500 individual photo etched pieces. This includes about 250 crew figures which will be added later.
Thankfully, Dr Joseph Ed. Low recently published his absolutely wonderful series of monographs on the class, and saved me from a massive mistake resulting from poorly researched western books previously published on the ship. In his book he clearly shows the radio towers only lasting through the late spring, early summer of 1944, and that the misc. anti aircraft guns were added at the same time the towers were removed. Most western sources, until now, show both existing at the same time, which is clearly not true. A bullet dodged.

 




 


 
 

This perticular model took part of 2021 and almost all of 2022 to finish. To be exact, a year and week. I probably could have finished her earlier, but in the end, the time I spent was well worth it. 
The model was made entirely from boxwood and brass, fully planked. The rigging is copper wire and the sails and flags are made from silkspan. The base is made from spalted tamarind and the sea is carved and painted boxwood. The model was built from original drawings made by the RN. I’ve chosen to depict the ship coasting into Tahiti in happier times. Most folks don’t realize that the weather was pretty poor through the time Bounty was in Tahiti, and I’ve chosen a moody sea. The paint scheme, I believe, is far more accurate than the blue and yellow we see in later paintings. The contemporary paintings we have of the ship were painted by artists who never actually saw the ship in person. The rest are done much later, and we do some some artistic flair with the colors. Bligh himself comes tantalizing close to the paint colors used, but he leaves us high and dry in the end. We know for a fact she was left in her civilian colors, her hull was coppered, and her fittings changed to bronze from iron. Also new masts were stepped, in the RN fashion, on which Bligh comments he’s not satisfied with how this was done. As for the colors, I think she would have been at least partially, if not fully painted black. The interior facing portions would have been red, as was the style of the day, but I just can’t see such a working vessel being painted anything fancier than black. Sadly we’ll never know. 
The model contains several thousand pieces and was built to a scale of 28’ to 1” or 1/336. The hull is carved boxwood with individual planks are held to the hull with approximately 1,500 tree nails which were inserted into predrilled holes. Paint, as always, is from ScaleColors. 
HMAV Bounty was a small collier purchased by the Royal Navy in 1787 for a botanical mission to Tahiti. Bounty, originally named Bethia, was built by Blaydes Yard, Kingston-upon-Hull, England and modified for her mission by the RN at Deptford Yard. 
The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the West Indies. That mission was never completed owing to a 1789 mutiny led by acting lieutenant Fletcher Christian. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island.
I have spent years reading about and studying Bounty, her crew, and her mission, and I’ve even been fortunate enough to acquire pieces of the real ship herself. If you’d like to see more of my work, I keep all of the model photos here: www.josephlavender.com
 




 
 
 

Very nice!     Complicated build for a bottle.    Here is my much  larger Archibald Russell at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300).   One valuable tip that will work for a SIB regards the painted ports and the black stripe underneath.      The white band was cut from a sheet of good quality paper and the black stripe ruled on with black ink.   The painted ports were small squares of black carbon paper cut out and stuck on with the black uppermost.   The band, complete with painted ports and black stripe was then stuck on the hull.    It makes a very neat job and is OK for all scales.
Bob
 

It is probably meant to be Germany's Flying P Line five masted barque Potosi, but these big five masters do not lend themselves to putting in bottles on account of their complexity -
This is what the Potosi should look like:   Drawing by me!
 

It is probably meant to be Germany's Flying P Line five masted barque Potosi, but these big five masters do not lend themselves to putting in bottles on account of their complexity -
This is what the Potosi should look like:   Drawing by me!
 

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Scratchbuilt from plans found in Around Cape Horn by Charles G. Davis.
Bob

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Scratchbuilt from plans in book Schooner Sunset. 
Bob
 

All ready for sea.
Bob
 

I am making good progress now, and have completed all the fore-and-aft sails.   The next task is to complete the standing rigging, and fit the running rigging on the mainmast.   Then, all that remains, will be to fit and rig the two square sails on the foremast.      This model is fitted with the tiny deadeyes described in another thread.
Bob