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72Nova

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  • Birthday 02/26/1959

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    San Marcos Ca
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    Model ship and auto building, restoring my muscle car.

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  1. The link on rigging techniques by Mr. Dressel and his beautiful model I've had for a while and refer to it often, my rigging will be based on a combination of James Lee's, RC Anderson and John McKay mainly for the construction of the masts and more detailed illustrations of the rigging, like everything else they all have their varying differences and can be quite vague at times, and one needs to interpret that in a logical way. A few examples: bow sprit shrouds, Don mentions they weren't in use until around 1702, but Paynes engraving clearly shows them, yet Lee's and Anderson never mentions them, also in Paynes engraving all the running rigging runs down the bowsprit terminating in the beakhead area instead of running thru gammoning blocks and up to the fore castle/beakhead rails, what would they be belaying to? It's a fact that the Vasa had belaying pins in this area and seems quite logical to me that SOTS had them, again based on Paynes engraving. Regarding the jeers, I've read of no instances of them being rigged on the upper yards, course yards on early bigger ships perhaps used two jeers with 3 single blocks, this the route I'll be taking. The picture you posted from Andersons showing the early English jeers can be confused for a trestle tree, but I interpret it as the floor of the lower top. This is all good stuff and appreciate you taking the time to look and comment and I love the work you're doing on your SOTS. Michael D.
  2. The colors are striking on this fabulous build. Michael D.
  3. I have completed the timberheads on the starboard main deck railing along with the main bitts, knighthead for the tie and the 3mm single blocks stropped to the base of the mast for the jeers, these are slightly under scale, but look good, this would date the rigging around 1640, but it's conceivable SOTS already employed the use of the jeers at the time of launch, these blocks at scale would be around 30." Thanks for looking. Michael D.
  4. The fitting out of the upper Qtr deck is just about complete minus the ladders leading to the poop deck, next I need to finish up the poop deck then fabricating the main bitts etc, thanks for looking. Michael D.
  5. Work is continuing on the upper Qtr deck, added more cavals, the mizen bits, the knighthead for the tie, mocking up the run of the tie and Hilliard and trial fitting the cannons, still much more work left to do in this area. Michael D.
  6. It was my pleasure John, just glad you were able to make it work they look great. Last year the wife and I did the San Salvador tour out of San Diego Bay, while it wasn't open water, it was exhilarating being on a replica 16th century ship helping asisst in setting the fore topmast sail, quite the 45min experience. Michael D
  7. The staircase's leading to the forecastle deck are finally glued into place along with the railings on the forecastle deck, I still need to add one more step though, the figure stands at approximately 5"-10", scale wise looks okay to my eye. Michael D.
  8. The major construction of the staircase is completed, minus the newel caps, this is a relief as this was very fiddly to construct. Michael D.
  9. With the railing completed, I'll finish up the port side staircase along with completing the 4 remaining cannons on the upper Qtr deck, after that I need to add the timberheads to the railings at the waist. Michael D.
  10. Marc, Yes, they are, while similar to knightheads, cavals are usually affixed to bulwarks, the break at the forecastle and Qtr decks etc, whereas Knightheads are free standing, I believe the ones you are referring to on the SR Marc are knightheads though and I could be wrong, when I built mine, I just used the Heller the plans, maybe some of your better well known sources show them as cavals on their deck plans? Shipman, I closely studied the models of Wolfgang, the Henry Culver model, Don Dressel's, National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and others before I committed to scribing them in horizontally, this seems to be the usual construction method on English ships from what I've found on my limited resources. All the best gentlemen. Michael D.
  11. The cannons on the Qtr deck are completed along with adding the hatch, ladder, cavals and kevels, I still need to come up a railing arraignment though, thanks for looking. Michael D.
  12. Thank you Kevin, always nice to know one's work is appreciated! likewise I love your work on your current builds👍Looking forward to showcasing your blocks! Michael D.
  13. Just a friendly remainder fellas that Dry Dock Models also sells those 1.5mm blocks in boxwood, those are what I use currently, but I would be willing try out Kevin's if he decides produce them? Michael D.
  14. Beautiful work as always Marc, while the blocks might be a tad over scale size wise the eye is the final judge and they look spot on!👍 Michael D.
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