GrandpaPhil
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Very nicely done!
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Mistakes are how you learn (it’s how I learn at any rate). You just have to fix them the best way you can and keep going. Have fun with your build. If it’s not perfect, that’s perfectly okay. The odds are that the only one who will know that there is a mistake is you. The important part is to have fun and to finish the model, don’t give up or start over.
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You’re doing well! Keep at it! In my opinion, planking the hull and getting the rough work done, is the hardest part of the entire process. Detailing the hull and the deck is the fun part for me.
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The rigging plan for the Prince de Neufchatel, which had a hermaphrodite rig, can be found in The Search For Speed Under Sail by Howard I Chapelle.
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Excellent work!
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I’m getting ready to attach sails to yards, after I finish sewing them and I billow them. I’ll be attaching them with the yards off the model. I’ll let you all know how it works out for me.
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One complete set of rough cut sails for a Baltimore Clipper, some (read a lot of) sewing required.
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Yes, she’s going in my office. I already have the stand and location picked out.
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Thank you for all the comments and the likes. I believe that the Prince de Neufchatel is ready to receive sails. However, in order to install sails, I must first make the sails. For this purpose, I traced all sails and am in the process of enlarging them and tracing them out on slightly darker than cream colored linen that I bought many years ago for sail making.
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I made the brackets for the blocks on the fore course tack. I completely missed them until I was getting ready to rig the sails. They may or may not be made of toothpicks, lol.
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Thank you, appreciate it. The blocks aren’t bad to make. They’re just a little tedious. I make a bunch at a time because I do all of the shaping before separating them from the strip of wood. Inking just involves using really thinned down paint to lightly color the wood. It’s the same technique used for painting war gaming miniatures.
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I’m up to 60 rigging blocks now. I’m going to make about 40 more. Whatever I don’t use here, I will save for the Triton.
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