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Awesome accomplishment!! An honor to enjoy your blog watching the restoration of a historical piece which now will live another 100 years and hopefully more. Congrats and well done sir!
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She's a real beauty!! Coming along very nicely.
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Thanks Keith, been slow I know; but have had to really be careful rigging as not to completely destroy her in installations. Rascal is so damn fragile!!
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Thanks @Gahm, slow but steady. Here's updated images and the booms are coming out! Still have a couple of more lines to install on the fore mast upper spars which will be done hopefully today and can start making the custom size boom sails for each spar size to attach on the main mast booms. I won't present the construction details for the boom sails as it's the same procedure earlier in this blog when I built all the the other sails but will update when I have one section of booms completed. So figure a couple of weeks per side with sails made and rigged, this way I'll complete as I go and won't backtrack into the other booms. Amazing as I have bought more Syren blocks to finish her out, somewhere around 225 blocks installed when she's totally completed. I think ..... lost count...... Thanks again for stopping by and will have more updates in a couple of weeks. She has taken a tremendous amount of time installing the rigging as not to damage her anymore during installation. As you can see it has paid off and I am working at the same pace for the boom sails installation, so bear with me as this will also be slow because of the internal rigging placements and other lines to work around. I did have a couple masts break on me again as I was gently tightening some rigging and a couple spar broke also, but the damage was repairable with added glue then sanding down for detailing processes. Touch up paint is also a item which will be done in the final touch's. The main bottom boom spars had to be moved also back about a inch as the sails and boom were going to have major conflicts with the back launch boats. They are glued, sanded and painted, complete. Ready for the boom sails and rigging. the Revell model doesn't match exactly up with B Jackets model prints was the reason for the discrepancy in placement and repair. Thanks for all the likes and appreciation! J11
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Thanks HH, been cleaning on her every day to keep dust bunnies at bay as I rig her. With it being so fragile I have to work gently and tug just enough to tighten them down without breaking any mast parts. As I work on her I have had to add more blocks for rigging and tying then in the proper place is very time consuming. As I said before I feel I'll have eighty to eighty-five percent of BL Jackets rigging plans completed, which considering some of the problems I ran into isn't to shabby for a realistic looking model. I'll have a couple more images of ongoing work soon, thanks for all the likes and appreciation.
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Here's some updated images from the progress during the past month. Very slow in install so not to snap any parts off, and pleased with the results. I'll have more images in a few more days and progress shows up in multiple work images completed. My extra long tweezers work very well and have been a big help in holding line and blocks for rigging threw. All the lines are tight and mounted just not coil installs on all of them yet. The sails will be billowed some to show wind detail along with a better natural look besides being so static looking. Thanks for stopping by and will update soon again.
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@wayne Galea, your best bet is Ebay. You'll have to surf the site for a month or so to find a quality kit which is complete. They will run anywhere from 150 to 250 depending on the quality or budget. Hope this helps.
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That looks great, look forward to your future progress! Welcome to MSW!
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i forgot about that! Ok I'll put two sided tape on the ends, see how that works with the smallest items. Hmm, plus a tent around my workbench and chair. Geez see what I mean about one step forward and three steps back with this rascal. But it's going to get finished!
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Looking for plans or possible models of Magellan's ships.
J11 replied to J11's topic in Nautical/Naval History
@shipphotographer.com, yes I understand but was wondering if you have a working email for the author? The one in the book doesn't seem to work for contacting.
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