Jndepew

I agree.  his book is invaluable for me.  Anytime I find a term I can't understand I go to "The Visual Encyclopedia..." and invariably it's there.  I supplement it with Anatomy of Nelson's Ships by Longridge.  I use Antscherl's "The Fully Framed Model, Rigging a Sixth Rate Sloop of 1767-1780" and Petersson's "Rigging Period Ship Models" when rigging.  Couldn't do without them.  Dirk De Bakker and Greg Booker's "Simple Hull Planking Techniques for Beginners," which was published in 2006 on Model ship World forum was a god-send for me when planking.  I must add that while I've been building tall ship models for about 15 years, I've only complete three kits: Amati's Roger B. Taney and Caldercraft's Bounty and Diana.  So, I'm still a novice.  But, I couldn't have built these models, especially, the last two without those books.

Ray, I've been working on Diana since 2002 or so, might say I'm a bit slow. As noted by so many others, you're doing a fantastic job. I wish you had started a few years earlier because there are a number of solutions you've invented that I could have used. It's been so long since I bought the kit that I have a question for you. How many plan sheets does your kit have? Mine has six and I'm wondering if there shouldn't be more. By the way, when you get there, there are errors on the mast and yard sheet (sheet 3). For example, the drawn lengths of the masts and spars don't match the actual dimensions in millimeters printed on the sheet.

Look forward to hearing from you.

John