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MossyOats - 01 Jul 2006 21:06 GMT

I'm in a real fix trying to locate a 1:96 scale or larger Flying Cloud.
Prefer to be plastic for a rush order. Can anyone help me locate or link
to any manufacturers/vendors.

Thanks to all for helping. This was just proposed today.

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The Old Man - 02 Jul 2006 01:59 GMT

> I'm in a real fix trying to locate a 1:96 scale or larger Flying Cloud.
> Prefer to be plastic for a rush order. Can anyone help me locate or link
> to any manufacturers/vendors.
>
> Thanks to all for helping. This was just proposed today.

Revell made one back in the day, and it was about 1:96. But its out of
production and short of eBay, I don't know where you'd find a copy.

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MossyOats - 02 Jul 2006 02:20 GMT

>> I'm in a real fix trying to locate a 1:96 scale or larger Flying Cloud.
>> Prefer to be plastic for a rush order. Can anyone help me locate or
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> Revell made one back in the day, and it was about 1:96. But its out of
> production and short of eBay, I don't know where you'd find a copy.

Thanks for the help, just the same.

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Ron Smith - 02 Jul 2006 05:10 GMT

> Revell made one back in the day, and it was about 1:96. But its out of
> production and short of eBay, I don't know where you'd find a copy.

Nope, it was approx. 1/232 scale....originally it was "box scale" and I
happen to have one. Mamoli made a 1/96 wooden kit.

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Ron Smith - 02 Jul 2006 04:57 GMT

No plastic model of her existed in the scale. Only plastic molded was a
Revell kit that is way OOP and E-bay fodder. Somebody makes or made a
wooden kit about that scale.

> I'm in a real fix trying to locate a 1:96 scale or larger Flying
> Cloud. Prefer to be plastic for a rush order. Can anyone help me
> locate or link to any manufacturers/vendors.
>
> Thanks to all for helping. This was just proposed today.

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David Amos - 02 Jul 2006 13:47 GMT

Hi, Revel used some licence in their models of Cutty Sark and Thermopylae
they used the same moulds even though the two ships were a different size. I
am not familiar with Flying cloud but she appears to be very similar to
Cutty Sark, a clipper is a clipper after all and will all be similar. She
appears to be slightly longer and wider than Cutty Sark but so was
Thermopylae. Looking at the below site the only real difference seems to be
the layout of deckhouse and poop, hull form is similar, and it would not be
difficult to make the Sark look like the Flying Cloud, just find a few
references. After all if Revel can use licence so can you! (I don't know how
accurate the model shown is)

Dave
http://www.mamolimodel.com/eng/mv41.htm

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MossyOats - 02 Jul 2006 15:42 GMT

Hello..and thanks alot. Yeh, we mulled over that very idea about taking
some liberties and improvising. I spend more hours Sat. gleeming over
Flying Cloud photos than I care to admit. We determined that the Cloud
was a Cutty on Steroids. The channels for the ratlines run down the
outside of the hull vs. Cutty's being tucked inboard on the deck.
This could be worked-around.

And I found so many nice wooden plankers around the $370 mark. Cloud
appeared to have more belly on its hull at the waterline and the bow taper
not as long as Cutty's imo.

Again, thanks for the info, bigtime.

> Hi, Revel used some licence in their models of Cutty Sark and Thermopylae
> they used the same moulds even though the two ships were a different
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>> Thanks to all for helping. This was just proposed today.

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