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About 72Nova

  • 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.    72Nova reacted to a post in a topic: Sovereign of the Seas by 72Nova - Airfix - PLASTIC
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    I believe the reality is the spritsail topsail was used very little and only in certain wind conditions like from astern, being braced horizontally limited its use as it was unable to be triced, no doubt the most dangerous area of the ship in certain conditions. Thank you for the compliment and your insights, Trevor. Thanks for the kind words, Marc, for the most part I use just two colors on the small parts, with that I can still achieve multiple shades, some flaws are unavoidable at certain scales as you know, I guess it's how good we are at hiding them...lol. Michael D.
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    Great stuff as always Marc, but what is vinyl Bondo out of curiosity? never heard of it. Michael D.
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    Work of late has been devising a belying plan in the beakhead area for all the necessary lines since I chose not to use the Gammon lashing block.... maybe I should have.... based on Payne's engraving which may or may not been correct. What you see here is just simply a mockup that I think works well using a combination of Lee's, Anderson and artistic license. Now I can remove all of it and continue the rest of the standing rigging on the fore mast, thanks as always for taking time to take a peek. Michael D.
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    Patrick your work is just exquisite mate!, and the pace at which you work is equally impressive, WOW!! Cheers. Michael D.
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    Very nice work as always Marc, keep chipping away at it! Michael D.
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    With the spritsail yard made it was time to mockup the braces, particularly the run form the headrail to the forecastle rail, Payne does not show this, but I'll follow Lees's and Anderson on this. Garnets will be next, but Anderson and Lee's differ on this, three-part tackle vs two-part, leading to the range vs forecastle etc. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
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    I did a mockup of the spritsail topsail braces and they will be belayed on the range rail, up next I need to turn a new spritsail yard and do a preliminary mockup of those lines also, but this rigging will not be finalized until all the stays are rigged/completed. Thanks for looking as always, very much appreciated. Michael D.
  27. 72Nova
    Well, the sprit topmast back stay exercise is completed minus some final crow's feet manipulation, the fall is led down to the range pin rail. Michael D.
  28. 72Nova
    A little better than a third of the way through, and the backstays are looking presentable, I'm purposely introducing a slight upward pull on the stay so when I rig the remaining stays the lower stay should relax a little, but if not I'm totally fine with it as is. Also, I still need to complete the furling on the sprit mast topsail yard, thanks for looking. Michael D.
  29. 72Nova
    This is an interesting take as an alternative and something I'd consider, but there is no evidence on how this would actually be rigged?, my main sources James Lee and Anderson make no mention of any rigging to counter react the pull of the sprit topmast backstays. Regarding the "wet and dangerous beakhead" the men would have to navigate out there anyways to reach the range pin rail and you make a valid point about the ratlines, but we really don't know as we only have images/paintings to go by in certain instances and even they differ. My take is their purpose is to help counter react the pull of the lower and upper stays would have on the bowsprit much like bobstays did at a later date. Here's an image that definitely shows some sort of shrouds forward of the gammoning, food for thought. Thank you Trevor for stopping by and offering up different possibilities, intriguing to say the least. Michael D.
  30. 72Nova
    I haven't had any time for my S.O.S as of late, but here's a sneak preview of what's next, the sprit topmast backstay, this is drawn up on paper and placed in the background to give me an idea how it's going look, my main focus is the placement of the crow's feet and the total surface area along the stay, at this point I think it looks pretty good so I'll mark the stay with paint as a guide and proceed, this ought to be fun. Michael D.
  31. 72Nova
    My focus of late is dressing out the lower yards, the sheet/lifts blocks are completed along with the sheet blocks, the clue blocks were another story, after a few trials and errors this is the finished result, using a 2.5mm block that is pretty darn close to a 15" block at scale, at least to the human eye anyways, I stropped it first then used PVA glue and dabbed it on with a pin to form the unique shape, once dried and painted I think it looks fairly convincing at this scale. Thanks for stopping by and checking out the progress. Michael D.
  32. 72Nova
    I rigged up the winding tackle using .50mm line for the pendant and ,45mm line for the guy, the long tackle block measures out at .5mm, the single hooked block is 3mm and the fall is .25mm line. The guy is belayed to the lower headrail at the base of the fore mast; the fore jeer bitts is another option to belay the guy. Michael D.
  33. 72Nova
    I spent some time making the capstan, this is based off the Vasa as a good example by some sources and works for me. Not sure yet if I want to display the bars as things are already tight in this area and might hinder access to belaying points, thanks for looking. Michael D.
  34. 72Nova
    The lower futtock shrouds are just about complete, the upper Catharpins were not often rigged on the Mizzen according to Anderson and McKay mentions that they can interfere with the Mizzen course, I did a mockup, and the interference was with tackle for the jeers rather than the course, at least on this model anyways, so I omitted them and the lower shrouds show no distortion. Also, I figured it would be a good time to fit the ladders leading up to the coach deck. When the time comes for trimming the lashings I like to shield the adjacent shroud with paper to prevent a catastrophic snipping of said shroud, this is not much of an issue on larger scale builds. Michael D.

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