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  1. 72Nova
    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.
  2. 72Nova
    Great stuff as always Marc, but what is vinyl Bondo out of curiosity? never heard of it. Michael D.
  3. 72Nova
    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.
  4. 72Nova
    Patrick your work is just exquisite mate!, and the pace at which you work is equally impressive, WOW!! Cheers. Michael D.
  5. 72Nova
    Very nice work as always Marc, keep chipping away at it! Michael D.
  6. 72Nova
    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.
  7. 72Nova
    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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 72Nova
    Thank you, gentlemen for the comments, it's nice to know one's work is appreciated and that means a lot coming from well esteemed modelers such as yourselves. Chapman, besides my continued enjoyment in building these, the biggest motivation is one day I won't be able to do this anymore, I'm no spring chicken, plus I have six more I want complete before that happens, Hehe. Cheers Fellas. Michael D.
  17. 72Nova
    The main Catharpin is completed. After calculating the distance, I rigged the tackle on the bench and fed the lines for the center legs thru the bullseye, as mentioned earlier this should be a 3-hole dead eye, 4.5" at scale. I placed the tackle on a piece of paper and fed the center legs thru the appropriate shrouds and glued one leg each side, the white background allows you to see the lines and make adjustments before gluing, once dried I placed clamps on the other legs, this allowed me to center the tackle before gluing them, I used the same process for the other legs, nothing earth shattering here, just sharing the process I used working at this scale. I figured it was good time to finish up the spritsail top mast ratlines. Michael D.
  18. 72Nova
    The lower fore futtock shrouds are completed, the threat of snipping a shroud is real, the Vasa wasn't as fortunate, but made it thru unscathed so far. Thanks for all the likes. Michael D.
  19. 72Nova
    The last couple of days involved making up the top mast dead eyes and rigging the futtock shrouds, usually there is two sections, the puttock plates and shrouds, I did contemplate doing this way but at this scale I went the simpler route by stropping the dead eyes with the shroud and a dab of glue to simulate the union between the Puttock plate and shroud, It looks somewhat convincing. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
  20. 72Nova
    The lanyards for the lower shrouds are completed along with the futtock staves and upper catharpins on the fore lower shrouds, I used 1.5mm rod to simulate the dead eyes and 1.7mm blocks for the tackle, these blocks are made by fellow modeler Kevin and figured now would be a good time to show case them, I think scale wise the assembly looks pretty good. Michael D.
  21. 72Nova
    The lower shrouds are completed, and the lanyards are rigged but not yet tied, using sculpey clay I made up the tack fairlead, finished up the entry port by adding a step/landing. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
  22. 72Nova
    Looks like she's ready to set sail into the horizon, you did a very nice job!. I have the same kit in my stash that I'll get to one of these days. Michael D.
  23. 72Nova
    I finally completed the lower stays, threading the 5-hole dead eyes for the Mizen stay was quite tricky even with the shrouds out of the way but I was able to get it eventually in the tight space. The Main and Mizen lower shrouds are also completed with the fore shrouds still left to complete, then on to the topmasts. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and look, very much appreciated as always. Michael D.
  24. 72Nova
    About halfway done with the Mizen shrouds, using .25mm shroud laid rope for these along with the pendants, for the tackle I'm using 2mm single blocks with the lower one hooked to an eye bolt on the side of the hull, kind of hard to see given the scale and the other end is led trough an eye bolt on the deck and tied to the railing using 50wt thread, lanyards are 100wt thread and the dead eyes measure out at around 1.75mm, things are pretty tight in this area but looking acceptable and thanks for looking, Cheers! Michael D.
  25. 72Nova
    I stropped the necessary blocks on the crossjack, the topsail sheet blocks are 2.5mm...19" at scale, lift blocks are 1.5mm and the mizen course bowline block are 2mm,16" at scale. Still contemplating if I want to rig the peak brails instead of the martnets, this will date it at around 1640 but yet Payne shows them, we shall see and thanks for looking. Michael D.

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