Peta_V

Starting with futtock shrouds on main mast. She is gainning volume😎

Progressing with the main mast.

Wow. This has to be my next build.👌 

Hi guys. I'm really glad you like her. Thanks👍

Knots..... Knots..... Knots🙄

Main mast top. 

Main mast shrouds and main stay. 

I have cut Down some juniper. IT has really nice color od the core. Do you know if it is somehow usefull for the ship build? I think it would be nice for inner bort planking gun cariages atc. But I have no idea how it behives after drying. Colour, cutting?? 

Moving to the main mast....... 

I have finished futtock shrouds and replaced the ancor cable on the deck with my home made ropes. 

Lower fore mast futtock shrouds. 

1 hour ago, Y.T. said:

Hi Peta_V, you are doing excellent job with this project. Your hull is museum quality. I also am very impressed with your rigging job. Can you do me a favor and explain how you achieve this look of rope ends where ropes coming into friction with other surfaces? Are you having them cross-tied with very thin thread? But how it gets laid so uniformly? Could you reveal details of this?

Regards

YT

 

Exactly, the thick cable is served with thin thread. I build a machine from lego for this purpose. Through gears it turns with thick cable around and thin thread is laid on it. 

Bowsprit shrouds

My First attempt with silver soldering. 

Catharpin of fore mast. 

Btw I had a really Hard Times to create headrails. I postponed it to the very end of the build because I do not know how to..... Are there any good tips how to start? The kit and plans are way off So I do not have any reference. 

Some small progress

This is my sample of homemade ropes. Various width and colors. I'm using various Gutermann 100% polyester threads (shown in table) and I decided color black (000) for standing rigging and color (868) for running rigging.

Hi, not many on the hull. I Made whole new gun cariages, more belaing points on the decks and ports. From deck above, all is done from scratch. Masts, heads, all the rigging etc. All this was very simplified in the kit. 

My lego ropewalk and lego serving machine. They work perfect. 

There are some more pictures with detail of the decks, artilery etc. 

Hi, 

I'm re-posting my building log from a long time ago. My building log was lost during some server migration and as I did not progress with a build I haven't Re-post until now. 

The start of the build was perhaps 10-12 years ago. I build almost complete hull within 2 years (most of the work was from the box). 

When the hull was nearly finished I got the Conway's Anatomy of the ship plans and I started with some modifications. Unfortunately I do not have photos from that period anymore. 

Than I got long brake (first job, next Jobs, childerns etc.). Few months ago I started again. 

To do are mast, rigging, sails and some little rest on the hull. Now I try to follow the new plans as much as possible.

I started with bowsprit and fore lower mast and standing rigging. Current status is on pics.