John Campbell's 1/12 scale Hackercraft model "Endless"

[Bruce Taylor]

John sent me these pics yesterday. BEAUTIFUL work...kinda makes me feel 6" tall!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid199/pc900c20a39aeadd5fdf9f91e20c70bfe/f09f6175.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid199/p6c4c0d82cfb30d5150d34ceff4583adf/f09f6092.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid199/p8b6bcd310344f85a08f3b7ddaf30855c/f09f5f96.jpg

[John A. Campbell]

Many thanks, Bruce, for posting the pics for me and I wanted to point out that all of the work in building this model was not mine. The upholstery was done by Nancy Summers of Greenfield, IN ....her expertise is in building miniature collectible furniture. The transom gold leaf lettering was done by John Bruening of Queensbury, NY. Custom jeweler Jim Benton of the nearby Village of Salado, TX cast the masters and made Castanaldo rubber molds from them and then cast all hardware in Argentium sterling silver (except prop, rudder, and strut which are silicon bronze) in the "lost wax" process after I did all the hardware pieces in jewelers wax. The prototype is 28 feet in length. The model is built plank-on-frame (13 3/16" Baltic birch frames) and is cold molded 1/16" thick Honduran mahogany planks (spiled same as full size boat) over a 1/32" Baltic birch plywood "skin". The "skin" is applied diagonally in 1/2" wide strips to allow for tuck and tumblehome in the forward and aft sections of the model. The paints, stains, and varnish were the same as used by Hacker Boat Co. It took 671 hours to build this puppy of which 235 were wax work and 100 were print drawing and pattern making.

[Alan D. Hyde]

Splendid job, John & friends!

Alan

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Makes you wish you had one of dem dere Martian enlarging guns. :D :cool:

Beautiful work John..