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Um, not sure what you mean, but this is how I did mine,

Sweet, a whole room. Off to the porno shop for married blokes then (Bunnings)!

This is the first Atlantic kit I have seen on this forum (or any other) I've seen, and the most beautiful ship. I'll be watching this with interest as it will be my next build after the Endeavour.

I hope your new place is planned around the ship!

Nice and square, but I'd do all the rope work and blocks before you stick it on for good

Last post of the year I promise! Bit of serendipity today as I actually read the plans and looked at the replica and the Topgallant shrouds have no ratlines! I'm finished with them! Shrouds and backstays in place. Lots of work on the bowsprit before I can add the last stay. next year it is.

Probably a bit too tight as it does kink a bit. The first shroud needs to be served all the way down to the deadeye to stop wear on the sail. I didn't fix my tops until I'd finished the shrouds as it let my fat fingers in to seize them. That being said, I never did get the deadeyes aligned properly but "meh"! At 1/64 some things just won't matter as there whole rigging thing makes it look so busy. Janos Caroline is just so perfect and neat it makes mine look like the cat did it. I've almost finished to top gallants so only a few ratlines to go.

Such a detailed ship, the amount of work is mind boggling. Well done

Looking good mate, I also love your tool box, I reckon you spent hours on that. Let the pain begin for shrouds and ratlines!

Nice work, good to see you back

There is a sense of achievement finally fitting the topgallants. The topgallant futtock shrouds and thimbles were attached first which gets really fiddly seizing them properly to the Topmast shrouds. Strangely, the masts ended up aligned! 12 shrouds and 4 backstays to go. Finally given the Endeavour's strong ties to Australia, a boxing day BBQ is always on the cards, so the BBQ photo.

Hope you all had a happy Christmas.

Something completely different! I like it!

Looks really good!

I just had a look at Frolich's Xebec Le Requin, it has the guns fully rigged, that is with tackle on each side of the carriages, breaching rope. From the look of the photo you've shown they didn't bother to add them to their model. You'll need some 2mm blocks for your scale of 1:75

Topmast blocks added. The jeer blocks slung under the shrouds required me to make eyelets and sling them. It looks really busy (it is) and because of the close ups looks somewhat out of scale, but by the time the topgallant shrouds are added and eventually the yards, the tension of the blocks should look correct. 

The topmast blocks. Does not seem much of an update, but it's taken a week of hard slog (sorry Capt'n) between work commitments to get these done. I've placed them on a blown up image of the AOTS Endeavour topmast to show placement.

As you can see each block has a served rope, so I've shown my little serving machine. Very expensive. Really quick too, I can get about a foot of rope done in in 5 minutes.

The Jeer blocks will need to go under the shrouds then strapped above the ropes on the mast, thus the open eyelet.

My next block of days off (no pun intended) I can fit them to the masts.

Thankyou, I'm afraid it's not that good, I can see every sin. Our cat chewed one of the bumpkins fraying one of the stays for it so I now live in fear.

Mizzen topmast stays. This was the most difficult as the thimble that goes on the end of the stay had to be put on whilst it was rigged. fat fingers and backstays do not mix. Now to have some fun and rig the blocks under and over the shrouds.

The mainmast topmast stays. Its starting to look like a real ship finally.

Fore topmast stays. I've used the Clasic Models violin blocks. I cheated somewhat doing the mice by using a parrel bead served over to make the smaller bulge required. I really had to guess the belaying point as I can't find reference to one anywhere. 

Pat, I did the crows feet as the very last part of the lower mast assembly after stepping to keep the tension on them correct off the stays and to save snagging them on everything whilst doing the final rigging. I had to keep dry fitting the top masts to ensue alignment was correct.

Well played sir!

As the other Endeavour club members are getting on with it, i thought that i'd try and keep trundling on with the Topmasts. The backstays now completed, just on to the stays and their mice next. I'd just like to say I'm crap at photography of small stuff - but at least it hides the fluffy lines. iPhones are not the best if cameras but very easy.

Really impressive

Looks good. I ordered my lantern from Chuck last week as well. I used rataan for my hoops.