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Nice to see your log back Clay.

Nice to see you, Atlanta, and Sadie back Toni. I look forward to continuing to follow your excellent build.

Great to see your log back Mark - it's always been a treat to follow your progress.

Hi Jim, Nice to see you back. Good luck with the move and I hope your new shipyard quarters provide the inspiration to get back making sawdust quickly!

Bob, One of the unexpected benefits of the "crash" is the opportunity to see logs that one might otherwise have overlooked. I'm glad I spotted this one of yours as it looks like an interesting subject, with excellent craftsmanship. I'll be following along from here. keep up the great work.l

Ed, So glad to see that you are able to recreate both your Naiad and Victory logs - I have learned so much from them, as I'm sure others have. I look forward to the re-post and to further updates.

Feel free to recycle the jokes too Augie - at least no-one can say you're repeating yourself (and at our ages, we probably wouldn't remember anyway )

Nice to your Stag back John - shame about the loss of the previous log, but we'll all enjoy following you to the finish line from here on! Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your beautiful work back Nico! Cheers, Grant

"Investment" is the right word indeed Allan. Your first book is excellent and I am keenly awaiting the second instalment on my investment. Cheers, Grant

Hi Sjors, You seem to have done just as good a job this time around as the first! Cheers, Grant

Continuing the journey then. Once the Stern re-build was complete, it was on to the rigging, starting with the bowsprit. Here's a couple of pics of items various and overall bowsprit rigging: I picked up a few tips and tricks from others here. This is a picture of some Mast wedges, made according to advice from Danny (they are turned from Castello boxwood, with lines scored to represent the wedges): When it came to attaching shrouds and getting the distance between upper and lower deadeyes even, I borrowed an idea from EdT, which I found in his most excellent Victory build log: For adding mice (or is that "mouses") to the stays, I followed advice from David Antscherl in his TFFM books, and turned them from wood. Here is a picture of some mice and the snaking between the Main Stay and the Main Preventer Stay. ('tis to be hoped the snake does not eat the mice! ): Somewhere around this time, Mobbsie drew my attention to the deteriorating state of the workshop. The Admiral agreed with Mobbsie and I was dispatched (with funds) to procure some better storage and thence to clean up the shipyard. Here is the clean version, under the watchful supervision of the site foreman, Sam the chocolate labrador: After much procrastinating, it was time to tackle the ratlines We had quite a discussion again over colour. There many differing opinions on this, but in the end I settled on black ratlines. To help get them at the right interval and parallel, I used a card template - here's one in use on the Mizzen: This is an early shot of ratlines in progress (actually the Foremast): Since then, I've been slowly but surely continuing to tie ratlines. I've now completed all three lower masts on the port side and am ready to start on the starboard side. To finish this post and bring the log completely up to date, here are a few progress photos taken tonight. I might add, that I had my own mini-disaster while taking these. As I was trying to get a better camera angle, I knocked over a glass of red wine - all over the several modelling books I had been using for reference (not to mention the carpet!) Fortunately, not too much damage was done, but it was a bloody waste of some very good red wine! That's me up to date folks. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to my previous log and for advice, assistance and encouragement along the way. If I've left anything major out of the story to date, let me know and I'll see if I've got some photos. Cheers, Grant

Well, here we go with what you might call the "Executive Summary" of my build log. I started this log when I first joined MSW in Sep 2011. At that time, the model had been under construction for 15 years, although the last six years had been a complete hiatus while work, family, and life in general got in the way. This is state of the ship around the time of joining MSW: Form here I'll just focus on some of the key events of the last 18 months or so. First up was a decision over hammock netting. We had quite a discussion over whether to use black or white (or other colour) netting. After many, many trials, I settled on black netting made from Tulle (comes white, but painted black). Here's a shot of the completed netting: In Jan 2012, I decided to take a little side-road to scratch build one of the ship's boats. I settled on the 34ft launch, using lines from AOTS and guided by a mini-practicum by Bob Hunt. Here's a photo-essay of this little journey: A little bit further down the track, I became dissatisfied with the look of the Stern and Quarter Galleries. Although I'd already made a mod to the kit some years ago, my experience here at MSW convinced me that I could do better. Danny came to the party too, providing detailed drawings and long distance e-mail support, guidance and mentoring along the way. I owe a great deal to Danny for the way this turned out and this whole exercise summed up for me what this wonderful site is all about. Enough blathering, here's a little photo-essay of this adventure: I'm not sure about limits to pictures in one post, so I'll just break this one off here and continue shortly. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back Rob. Cheers, Grant

So glad to see your log back Remco. Seeing some of those pictures brings back memories of some of the conversations and "challenges" along the way. Cheers, Grant

Hi Daniel, Nice to see your entertaining log back up.

Glad to see you back Anja. Cheers, Grant

Great to see you back up and running Sjors. I'll try and do the same later today. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back Andy. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back up Augie. I'd only recently found your previous log and had enjoyed reading it through from start to finish. You've been doing a great job on this model and I look forward to seeing further updates. Cheers, Grant

I've been building this kit for some time now - almost finished the Standing Rigging. I had a build log here, but like all the others it seems to have gone up in smoke. To answer your question, while I would not particularly recommend the Mamoli kit, it is probably no worse than any of the usual kit manufacturers. If you are prepared to a bit (or a lot) of kit bashing, it will make into a nice model. If you decide to go ahead, I can give you a few pointers about where the instructions might lead you astray early on. Cheers, Grant