Schooner "Lettie G. Howard" 1893

Mike Amos

A very cool piece of kit you have there, very nicely done.

HornOxx

...grooooßartig

axeonalias

Thanks guys, more details and textures added :

Bryan K

Wow!

Mike Amos

I agree with this guy ^. Wow.

axeonalias

Thanks guys, here are some more images of the progress:

Bryan K

Definitely top notch work!

Say, is that Capt Jack?

axeonalias

Yarr the one and only! although he would probably be around 150 years old at the point when this boats keel was laid

Completed the helm, Fife rail and pins, deck step profile, fairleads, hawsehole, Doryblock, gallow, main pinrail & finished the bow

Rich O Brien

Stunning

ntxdave

@rich o brien said:

Stunning

Agree 100%

Mike Amos

Likewise, when I grow up I want to do that.

Bryan K

axeonalias

Thanks guys, Im glad to say the hull and deck fittings are just about complete, items added today include ringbolts, bulwark steps, large flap scupper at the deck step, chain lockers, windlass fittings, chainplates, whisker booms and the bowsprit standing rig, excited to get working aloft

Bryan K

Mike Amos

Brilliant, the texturing especially, masterful. Inspirational when stuff I am doing is going not so great.

Which is how it goes with this hobby of ours, two steps forwards, some steps back until we get what we need.

Thanks for the smiles today.

axeonalias

Thanks Bryan & Mike, glad this little old boat can still inspire, I cant take credit for her fine lines, that credit belongs to Arthur D. Story who designed and had her built.

Yea SU is like that on some days, I guess the biggest step back for me ( which happens continuously ) is that when replacing some wood materials the grain direction is vertical and I have used horizontal, and theres no simple rotate button anywhere like in other software, which results in you having to remap the entire material!

The rig is up and she is sporting her anchors, she still needs a smaller anchor to starboard, and im thinking that chain looks a tad to thick