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Alright, been a bit busy but managed to get more rigging done. Standing rigging done but for the fore and main backstays. Did the foreboom running rigging and man oh man... going to have to figure out a good way to run thread through those blocks. Thinking of doing the blocks with the thread THEN attaching the blocks to the mast/boom/whathaveyou. Made the foreboom too short for some reason. Had to remake it. Felt good getting back to that sort of thing. I like rigging in a way. Tying ratlines and siezing eyelets is a pain, but the final product makes it worth the effort. The boat is coming around okay. It's definitely not 'good' or 'clean' but it's mine and I'll display it happily for people to look at. A friend of mine in Florida came to visit and the details on the ship blew her away. It's worth the time just for the reaction of people who have never really seen a 1/75th scale ship model up close!
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Well I broke a wire bit #75 while using a pin vise to put a hole into a brass strip... and the broken end drove into my fingernail. Ow. Rule #832 in building ship models: never put your sensitive digits in harm's way if you have pliers to do the job. #832a: never put your digits in harm's way even if you don't have pliers. I have a perfectly round 1/32" hole in the nail of my index finger. I'd put up a pic, but it's too painful too look at. Anyway, getting the bowsprit going. The rigging part is beginning! But still need to do the masts. I got the Jenson Bluenose II book in. It is worth buying even if you aren't doing the model. Very nice art book, and great information on the fishing schooner trade. Which might sound dull, but it's really not. Of course I'm an infophile. Onward with le bateau! Ow, hurts to type...lol.
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Thanks, Derek. I'm getting super perfectionist on this and I likely need to ease up a bit. I'll try not burnishing the tape as much... i tried regular masking tape but even tight it bledca bit. But i did manage to pick decent colors. the blue is pretty good. Called Ink Spot by Folk Art. Went cheapish on paint. But liked the colors. Sealed with polyacrylic finish, clear matte, by Minwax. All at Wally World. The fine sh helped the red look a lot nicer, too. Here is another in progress shot. The rails are, of course, being hit with lots of spill over... but will be painted white and blue. The chainplates will be done last but prior to the finsh.
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The vinyl tape took off some paint. Not sure if it's the paint or the tape. So i am going to seal any paint that will require tape before i use it. I have this polycrylic finish that might keep the paint from coming off. Here's hoping. Or do you guys and gals think i ought to use a different type of paint like latex interior? Instead of acrylic paint. It wasn't the brand either. I used a decent brand of paint as a test and the vinyl tape took it up. Here is the boat with the white and red (which is patched up by a small brush and ruins the white line a bit):
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