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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.    Ian_Grant reacted to a post in a topic: Sovereign of the Seas by 72Nova - Airfix - PLASTIC
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    The Royal and Top Gallant stays are completed, I changed my mind regarding the Top Gallant stay and decided to rig the crows feet mainly for the challenge and I think they turned out okay. Thanks for the kind complement, Trevor and all who stop by just to look and like. Michael D.
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    I have the royal shrouds, lanyard and parrel completed. The deadeye's measure out at approximately 1.30mm in diameter, a little overscale and a bit crowded looking but the smallest I'm able to work with when trying to drill 3 #80 holes and rig the lanyards, I'm happy with the result. Michael D.
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    I'm continuing my climb up the fore mast with the completion of the top gallant shrouds, I've rigged the burton pendants as added detail, the royal mast shrouds are next along with finishing up the stays, keep in mind that top gallant top is smaller then a dime so rigging those shrouds and lanyards will be challenging to say the least. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
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    That turned out really well! nice addition to your collection. 👍 Michael D.
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    You're forgiven..haha. For this build I'm using rope from Syren, ropes of scale and silk linen thread for the smallest lines, hope this helps Tumblehome? Michael D.
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    It's been quite the journey thus far Marc, the amount of hand fabricated parts in a world of 3D printing is nice to see and has really brought your build to life!! That proverbial light shines brighter upon competition of every detail/phase. Michael D.
  27. 72Nova
    You're very prolific at building these card models, great work as always 👍 Michael D.
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    I got lucky this time Ian, only 3... Michael D.
  29. 72Nova
    I started rigging the fore topgallant futtock shrouds and also did a little back tracking regarding the spritsail yard, Initially I was going to use a sling but I mistakenly added the saddle for it which was not in use at the time so I removed it and decided to use a parrel instead which was in use up to 1640 according to Lee's. The parrel ribs measure out at approx 2mm long and 0.75mm thick, for the trucks I used 0.75mm rod and a #80 micro bit for the holes, I do like the added detail of the parrel, keep in mind this is just slightly over scaled but one still has to be able to handle them and think visually it looks okay. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
  30. 72Nova
    The topmast stay is completed using .25mm line with a 2mm single block seized at the end, the whip is .20mm line with a 1.5mm block seized at the end, for the fall I used 60wt thread that's led through a 1.5mm block stropped to the bowsprit and brought inboard into the beakhead area. Also, I finished up the topmast burton pendant falls. The topgallant stay will be rigged in a more conventional manner according to Anderson and Lee's, not as depicted in Payne's engraving but first I need to complete the topgallant shrouds, and this is where things start to get really delicate moving upwards. Cheers! Michael D.
  31. 72Nova
    I haven't had a lot of time for my S.O.T.S but was able to complete a few steps, the topmast shrouds, burton pendants and the falls, topsail yard and blocks, parrel and securing the top rope, far from perfect but looks okay and hope you enjoy the photos. Up next will be the topmast stay. Thanks for looking. Michael D.
  32. 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.
  33. 72Nova
    Great stuff as always Marc, but what is vinyl Bondo out of curiosity? never heard of it. Michael D.
  34. 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.
  35. 72Nova
    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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