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jerrynast

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  1. I am building the "Atlantic" from the Bluejacket kit and found your blog while searching for others doing the same. Amazing! I certainly hope to follow your progress until the model is safely installed in the bottle.

    What type of magnification & lighting do you use while working? A photo of that would be appreciated.

    Very impressive work, thanks for sharing.

  2. 8/16/19

    Rigged the topping lift short pendants with blocks at either end around the doubled main mast right above the top.  3 altogether, one for each mast.

     

    8/17/19 

    Started mast rigging for the "runners". 6 long port & starboard pendants total which will attach down to deck rigging. Stopped one single eye off the model then Rove line through hole drilled through tops & mast. Strop block at other end. Almost done 2 complete, fore & main, one block left to attach for mizzen. Figuring out how to make the strops on the 4.3mm-5/32" blocks to appear seized has been a challenge. 

     

    I have photos of any of this if anyone is interested. In the event no one is then think of the time I saved by not posting them now. 

     

  3. This is my first blog anywhere, ever. I joined NRG only a few weeks ago so the vast majority of the build was done prior to that which is why I am not showing the build from the beginning. So I will feel my way through. If anyone has any suggestions, comments or corrections about this model of the schooner "Atlantic" or this blog I would welcome them.

     

    I finished the hull and deck furniture as seen in the photo below.

     All of the deck furniture, cleats etc. were applied with epoxy.

     

    So now I am on to masting & rigging. 😬

    Atlantic deck furniture glued 2.jpg

    Atlantic deck furniture glued plan view.jpg

    Atlantic deck furniture glued.jpg

  4. Pictured below are the 3 models I have built in the last 3-4 years. Before that it had been decades since I last built a model & they were all plastic planes with plenty of gluey fingerprints.

    So I am now in the middle of building Bluejacket's schooner "Atlantic" with most of the hull and deck work done. Since I had no experience with really complicated rigging I signed up for the rigging class offered by Nic Damuck of Bluejacket Shipcrafters and am really happy I did. Great course. I like photographing different stages of my models and would like to start a build blog but have never blogged before so if anyone has any advice about that I would greatly appreciate your input. Right now blogging seems as complicated as rigging! 

    I learned about NRG at the rigging class and am hoping it is a good resource for my many questions that are sure to arise.

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