Jump to content
New Publication - Ship Modeler's Handbook - They're back in stock! Thank you for your patience. ×

drobinson02199

NRG Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,008

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by drobinson02199

  1. drobinson02199
    Mizzen yards done and mounted. Now just the bowsprit yards left. Regards, David
  2. drobinson02199
    Fore topgallant yard up. So now on to the mizzen yards, which are simpler to build than the fore and main yards. Regards, David
  3. drobinson02199
    Built and installed the fore topmast. Knocking them off, one by one. Regards, David
  4. drobinson02199
    Allan: You asked why many of my blocks are rigged upside down. Actually, I think it's all of them. I'm sure you are right, and that I'm doing it upside down. When I started building ships, it seemed to me that rigging the sheaves (the holes) at the loop end vs the tie end would lead to more aligned rigging and less fouling. So I've always done it that way. Regards, David
  5. drobinson02199
    The fore yard is built and rigged onto the ship. Going on a trip for a couple of weeks so won't be posting again until latter part of June. Regards, David
  6. drobinson02199
    Main topgallant yard built and mounted. I included a pic of the rigging. Again, as with the topyard, I have rigged a strop to hold the yard down, and I'll cut that if something comes along later that does that. Regards, David
  7. drobinson02199
    Finished the main topsail yard and mounted it. Some things to comment on with accompanying pictures: The parrel beads and ribs look nice. I've typically had trouble mounting yards with parrel beads -- holding everything in place (even with the ends knotted to make a tight assembly. This time I dry-mounted the yard with painters tape, which made it relatively easy to rig the beads. Didn't have to resort to my default on earlier boats of gluing them to the mast and then rigging them. Other pics show the "tye" rigging including long block and tackle at the end. In order to get the tyes tensioned correctly, I needed to tie the yard down, and there is a thin loop (red arrow) doing that. If something comes up in the later rigging that holds the yard down, I'll snip that loop. There is something called a "truck" that lashes the rigging to one of the backstays. It's supposed to be a cast item, but looked high and low and nada in the parts box. So I improvised with some scrap walnut dowel as shown in the picture. In general, I've been pretty disappointed in the cast items in this kit -- particularly the yard rings, which I've ditched for my own using wire. It took me about 5 days to build and mount this second yard, so allowing for an upcoming vacation it may be sometime in August before I have them all done -- maybe later. I'll keep posting as I go. Regards, David
  8. drobinson02199
    Yes, Chris -- agree. Have you done more?
  9. drobinson02199
    Finished and added blocks to the main yard. Because I need my workbench to make the yards, I have moved the ship across the room. I also need somewhere to store the yards as I build them -- so I will mount them on the masts as I go along. Pic of the first mounted yard is shown, along with some rigging detail. The light is not very good in the part of the workroom where the ship now is, so I bought a LED headset light (shown). Wow, what a godsend. Puts a ton of light just where you are looking. Only $30 at Amazon. Wish I'd had it sooner. Regards, David
  10. drobinson02199
    Built my first yard -- the lower main yard -- and thought I'd offer a few comments: 1) The plans show banding on the yards, but there is no indication there or in the manual what they are made of, so I used black thread. 2) For the life of me, I can't figure out the mast rings supplied with the kit. The inner diameters seem wrong, and the counts seem wrong. So I have abandoned them and made my own for the stunsail booms out of wire. It's all painted black at the end so it looks fine. The finished yard (rigging blocks not yet installed) is shown below as well. Regards, David
  11. drobinson02199
    Finished the standing rigging on the jib. Now all of the standing rigging is done. I haven't built any of the yards yet, so now it's on to shaping and sanding. Regards, David
  12. drobinson02199
    Thanks, Allan. Yes, I did vary the circumference according to the manual specs.
  13. drobinson02199
    Backstays now done on all masts. Jib standing rigging next. Regards, David
  14. drobinson02199
    A couple of "not in the plans" mods: When I made the main topgallant mast, I messed up and created an area of the mast that was too narrow, and too weak. As I got into rigging the backstays, I saw that it might not hold the tension. So I added a small splint, which is virtually invisible at normal viewing distance, and that has strengthened the mast back to where it can handle rigging tension. I also added a backstay that isn't in the plans, running left to right from the top of the main mast down to the mizzen. The backstays that are in the plans run at too steep an angle to pull the topgallant mast back to straight, which is what was needed. Regards, David
  15. drobinson02199
    Here is most of the forestay rigging done. Last picture shows some lines I've temporarily rigged through the boomkins and up to the jib, to try to keep me from pranging anything else. Regards, David
  16. drobinson02199
    Jib realigned using the jib stay! Regards, David
  17. drobinson02199
    Well, it was bound to happen to me sooner or later -- a bad prang. In this case, I was wearing a sweater while working around the bowsprit from the front. The tip of the bowsprit caught on my sweater without me knowing it, I moved, and SNAP. I thought it would need a really stiff nail for repair, so I used a picture hanging nail, which is shown below. I THOUGHT I had it completely aligned when I dry-fitted the repair, but at the end of gluing it somehow had developed a slight downward cant -- which I'm going to have to live with since I'm not about to try to take it apart -- I really glued it on solidly. I can think of worse disasters -- like dropping the whole model -- and all in all, this repaired fairly well given the total snapoff. It took the jackstaff with it, and I'll probably add that back at the end of the build. But there is that slight downward angle . . . Oh well. Regards, David UPDATE: I was able to bend the sprit up some, and to a point where I can use the stays to finish the realignment. Final picture shows what it will look like when the stays are installed. I'm only putting a slight upward pressure on with my hand. WHEW!
  18. drobinson02199
    I've begun work on the forestays. Mizzen stays done; first main mast forestay installed. Closeup picture below of the heart blocks and lashings used to secure the main forestay. Regards, David
  19. drobinson02199
    Bowsprit now permanently mounted and gammoning completed. The gammoning on this model is more than decorative -- it performs the same function as it would have done on the real ship: locking down the bowsprit tight. Gammoning was tricky to thread behind the beak struts. Regards, David
  20. drobinson02199
    Thanks, Mort. I need to find your build log and will do so. Regards, David
  21. drobinson02199
    Finished the foremast topmast shrouds and ratlines, and THAT'S IT for ratlines on this model!😃 I looked back to when I started the shrouds, and removing the 6 weeks I was away on vacation, I was dong shrouds and ratlines for 4 1/2 months. That's as long as some other models I've built took overall. Not sure what it is about this model that makes things go so slow -- maybe the size? Regards, David
  22. drobinson02199
    Finished the main mast topmast ratlines. Now on to the fore mast. Regards, David
  23. drobinson02199
    Finished the shrouds on the main topmast and topgallant mast. And yes, for the sharp-eyed, the shroud attachments for the futtocks are not level with each other. That's just a goof. I find attaching those to the shrouds to be devilish, so my latest approach is to put glue on the bar and spray the shrouds with quick-set, then press the bar against the shrouds. Got them aligned on the mizzen, but missed here. I'm not worried about it because the ship on display will be viewed from one side (the one showing below), and the other futtock attachment won't be that noticeable. Regards, David
  24. drobinson02199
    Finally -- one mast completed. This is the mizzen, all shrouds and ratlines done. Regards, David
  25. drobinson02199
    The topgallant shrouds run down through the topmast crosstrees and become the topmast futtock shrouds in one continuous run. The instructions aren't terribly clear about this. This is still the mizzen. Regards, David

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...