About This Items
- Brand: Woody Joe
- Please use a bottle with a diameter of 19mm or more.
- No paint (Paint is not included, but you can create a beautiful finish even with plain wood.
- Product name: Bottle Ship No. 4 Cutty Sark
- Finished size: Total length: 127mm, total width: 27mm, total height: 75mm
- Estimated production time: 15 hours
- 9 types of wooden parts, 2 types of metal parts, 3 types of others
- Materials: Natural wood such as magnolia and boxwood, metal (etching)
- Total weight: 140g
- *Paint and bottles are not included in the kit.
- Woody Joe's bottle ship has a properly divided hull, and the difficult task of stringing ropes is done as much as possible outside the bottle, with the mast yard folded and then inserted. This makes it easy for anyone to enjoy making a bottle ship, which is considered difficult even for experienced model makers.The hull is processed using the latest laser cutting technology, allowing the distinctive hull to be faithfully reproduced.We are confident that the finished product will become a model that will play a part in your collection.
- This tea clipper was built in 1869 by Scott & Linton shipyard in Dumbarton, England.It was a typical mixed-wood and iron ship, with an iron frame covered in elm exterior plating, teak decks and deckhouses, iron main and fore lower masts and all lower yards, and pine for the other spars.The ship's owner, John Willis, was a former captain, and it had been his long-held wish to own a ship that could win the tea clipper race between China and Britain, which was the highlight of the British shipping world at the time.To meet Willis's expectations, the Cutty Sark participated in tea trade races for 10 years, and its rapid performance in a transoceanic race against its arch rival Thermopylae in 1872 has been passed down to future generations. It is currently on permanent display in Greenwich, England.