Post by James M. Norton on Nov 12, 2012 10:59:32 GMT -5
Attached is a photo of my Bounty launch model, completed in 2006 or so. The scale is 1/24, 1/2"=1". I populated the model with original sculpted figures representing the loyalists set adrift with Bligh, and posed the figures doing activities described in Bligh's journal of his historic open boat voyage. The model shows how crowded the boat really was.
Photos of the model are being used on the website of the Pitcairn Island Study Center, in the section on Bligh and the Bounty, and a photo of the model appeared in a recent publication by the National Museum of Australia entitled "In Bligh's Hand".
This model, as will all my my future models of small open boats of historical significance, incorporates a white-haired figure representing my late father, a retired railroad worker whose beautiful ship models can be found in the homes of his children. If my future model-making plans come to fruition, he will have sailed with Bligh in the Bounty launch, with Saint Brendan in his Irish ocean-going curragh, with Pitcairn islanders in one of their longboats, with Shackleton in the James Caird, with some adventurous Englishmen who sailed from Cornwall to Australia in a modified coastal fishing boat called the Mystery, and with Lewis and Clark in their riverboat.
Photos of the model are being used on the website of the Pitcairn Island Study Center, in the section on Bligh and the Bounty, and a photo of the model appeared in a recent publication by the National Museum of Australia entitled "In Bligh's Hand".
This model, as will all my my future models of small open boats of historical significance, incorporates a white-haired figure representing my late father, a retired railroad worker whose beautiful ship models can be found in the homes of his children. If my future model-making plans come to fruition, he will have sailed with Bligh in the Bounty launch, with Saint Brendan in his Irish ocean-going curragh, with Pitcairn islanders in one of their longboats, with Shackleton in the James Caird, with some adventurous Englishmen who sailed from Cornwall to Australia in a modified coastal fishing boat called the Mystery, and with Lewis and Clark in their riverboat.
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