Vladimir_Wairoa

epic stuff Bruma. amazing

uff. 

all 3 booms are shipshape up tied firmly with haliards and stays. . I would not be able to sleep if not. i dont want to face ut again. 

later i will add halyards and all backstays are hanging waiting for tying up. 

thankfulully....thank eveyone for encouraging words....

slowly forward

V. 

Youre so sweet guys, 

speaking of, mast is up. damage is extensive indeed but most important is thwy mast is secure and straight. i run copper wedge thru both so i didnt damage ladders and stuff only one collar to be made.i had to literally cut off all bacsktays lanyards up from topmast but that is easy peasy work. now i will continue halyards first with yards and securing and tying up  backstays up high ....this occurence scared me a lot and reminded me that little not paying aytention can pay dearly. just touched lanyards and whoaaaa. 

so back to main mast repair slowly. i hppe i will tie ropes even better and nicer than previous  ones. 

better not to drive holes next ropes or ...very catefully next time....

mast up....im nit sure how i proceed with fairlead for halyard but its just what it is now...:( there is copper wedge inside :))

32 minutes ago, rwiederrich said:

Ouch!  What a painful experience Vlad.  Truly gut wrenching.

 

The closest I ever got to sucha disaster, was when I ran a skysail bunt line down the mast, through  the maze of other lines only to find I was horribly twisted and entangled with several other lines.  But this........Yikes.  I

I hope you recover both mentally and constructionaly soon.

 

Rob

Yeah tell me bout it. probably constructionally sooner than mentally . traces of disaster everywhere, she looks like frigate after battle now. 

i already bave i plan and if that works i will be spared of all work again. 

i will attempt to drive strong straight wedge in both masts to join it and strenghten tipgallant top with collar. fingers crossed. it that works i could move all rope eyes where before just lanyards for backstays will be cut off and redo....

fingers crossed Rob. 

there is some bad omen with this ship or ptobably with my clumsiness :///.

with halyards its already way too many ropes there. not able to understands how on earth you did buntlines in 1:96. 

accident. 

just when i was finishing halyards and in good pace with moonsaioll yard on, screwing hole for last halyard, drill bit got  one backstay and all hell broke loose. 

im nof sure if recovering from this

you dont want to see it ..

just highest yard was on few moments before...

royal and skysail masts are gond broken just at its hell with all rigging. catastrophe

 im now going tilo spend rest of the day thinking if there is a way to insert metal tube inside broken pieces so i wint need to scrap weeks of work from start. 

ouch ouch. 

very nice work with mizzen rigging Mike. 

7 hours ago, gak1965 said:

The carving (and the ship overall) is looking great, Vlad! 

 

I'll echo @BANYAN, you're a braver man than I for even trying at such a small scale.

 

George K

thank you very much George. 

though middle part with pyramids and figure with mirror scares me more. i never did person so Im lost.  will probably mock it up elsewhere first not to ruin whole pannel. 

will see.

meanwhile assembling blocks for glorys  braces ( quite a lot)  and spars for spanker....

V. 

Very nice Matt. i did this 1 year back  . happy continuation. 

just fantastic Dusan. lovely moldings. V. 

Absolutely amazing Mike. This should be 2 prototype  your headwork is inspiration for me when i aproach 12 chapt. thanks for sharing. V. 

so far so good  thats tricky part i remember. Youre almost out of hardest part. keep on...;) V. 

Verry nice there JJ. enjoyable . V. 

@BANYAN

thanks for input. Im humbled Pat, but No way better  Id be over the moon to get your Endeavour sculpture result. By the way i am preparing sapanker boom for Glory and learning from your way from your current ship albeit littel newer than mine. Or shoul I say stealing some ideas 😕

enjoy your journey. 

apology for hijacking own thread for some different stuff, i need little pause from glory...

i learn to be patient so training carving...i must say even these poor egyptienne rehearsals and simple foliage is aaargh. i tried to clean corner more and slowed down .. and im waiting to get 1.5 mm chisel. its  painfully slow. boxwood is godsend fof sure. i simplified acanthus as im not up to it and besides original is 1:36 carved this is 1:48. smaller.

every mistake of shavinv wood against grain is gravely dearly  punished. 

working under magnifier. 

Thanks Druxey ! 

aside fun :)) 

off topic. 

my poor attemps trying to carve simplified  Egyptian stern  in 1:48

i better not showing original. i guees no human did it...

congratulations Jim to beautiful winnie, 

I started running rigging.

there is nit much it is going veryv slow. lanyards are not yet stored at belaying pins. few pics. 

v. 

17 minutes ago, rwiederrich said:

I know, it is a big decision.  Because it can get very tedious...to try to cram so much rigging in and along the yards.  Then transfer that detail down the mast to so many belay points.

I'm so glad I decided to NOT include any stunsail boom rigging....  In my scale it would have required silk thread to achieve the scale rope required for this level of scaled rigging.....not to mention the problem of finding places to belay the lines.  I did COMPLETELY rig her...with yard, and sail control.

 

Everyone's miles may very.

 

Rob

Rob , I truly admire your skill and such clean outcome from that scale and i say honestly its something im not up to atm. this is probably smallest scale im able to work at. I can say with haliard and braces it will still be plenty. and I must say I am not that experienced to rig her at this point completely l, well nit telling i wouldnt try now with your and underhill backbone but that big task, and more,  would require another lond time and tremendous amount if material ropes blocks etc....which i dont want to dive into....i have already different boats in mind and i want to get glory nice pedestal, flags, still aft booms to be made etc...and im only diving deep quite shocked how much would have to be done...or speaking of stunsails or those booms. nope, I ditched it myself too. i will be happy to rig downlifts, haliards and braces , so yards could stay properly.similar fashion as cutty sark is rigged todays. I dojty like sheet lines without sails I see no point in doing that. 

hope it makes sense.V. 

Lift rigging preparations. 

There is single tye thru one block  with purchase of 2 blocks combination. 

I haclve to assembpe block thru thread before closing eyes on both sides...

as completed i plan to secure double blocks from deck first and another tye from yardarm thru block and lower mast top down and jpin bothbsides. at the end purchase will be strung and end will go to belay pin on mast  fife rail ....ag lest its plan :)) 

There is 4" (0.45 mm) lanyard going from yard arm, and 0.35 mm for the purchase blocks. cap block is single 5 mm and pirchase double 3 mm alssembled so  Fall will go from top of uoper block towards deck. 

I need to make 4 identical for F/M masts and 2 smaller for mizzen . 

thank you for watching etc. 

...

V. 

3 minutes ago, rwiederrich said:

We’ll one and two in your drawing will be simpler, because drawing A requires that you have a block mounted on the deck and a line to belay at the rail.  This will quickly get overwhelming at the mast foot.  You will run out of space when you figure you need to do this for 4 to 5 yards……..on both sides.  
 

Rob

good point Rob. thank you for bringing to consideration. 

regarding mast stop place or nelaying pins rail place. It will be rather very small project Rob. I will rig only braces and haliards thats it. 

i wont even attach empty blocks even there are evety eyes for them on tops etc. 

im hard thinking how nice would be to rig at least sheets with all chains tbru yards but...it wont be rigging yards anymore but also part of sails. and there shouod be blocks then etc...

lets wait and see. well at least. if i change mind it is always time to add more. 

thank for fine comment indeed. 

V. 

where im to start...

funnily enough I noalready run into three possibilities of rigging lower yard lift....running lift. 

seems to me that it was solely captain choice of what is to bd done, mo matter what underhill says. respectively Underhill mentioms only one and maybe possibly older way? 

I believe there us not one or right or wrong answer obswrving that there is more methods. probably one key is to find what was used most , or being preffered. or is there a way Mckay might suggested also rigging in kind after completing vessel? I dont know ag all would assume we know from documents that Mckays preferred  rigging company took that job as whole. speaking of original rig.

but honesly im not going put much thought into it. 

tying 4 or 5 " in the eye of yard brace brunging it into 12 or up to 15" block at the top of cap and down to purchase at mast fife rail. 

Im going for this way but intersting others deserve to be mentioned. or prefered? hmm . 

surely much thicker singe rope goiung from yard bracd arm eye into purchase blocks that are on upper part of mechanism....and that seems to me failry stronger way of securing as per my amateurish observation :)) 

anyway. just rough sketches for  curiosity though...

V. 

5, 4, 3 , 2,5mm. 

7 hours ago, BANYAN said:

You are making excellent progress Vlad, but I think Rob's advice as to making blocks as you need them may be a good idea if you plan to do them all by hand tool - that is a tough task you have set yourself.  I look forward to seeing your updates.

 

cheers

 

Pat

I think thats a briliant advice Pat, makes sense, i will make them as i go so i could see how much more i need to make etc. thanks much V. 

3 hours ago, rwiederrich said:

Vlad....you have a real job ahead of you.  You will need many hundreds of blocks. but in your scale....that will be fun....if I can say that.

 

I created blocks for each yard and purpose at the time I needed them.  It broke up the monotony of making so many blocks at the same time.   That was just me.

In your scale, each block is nearly a small model in of itself.

There are some nice videos , where folks mass produce blocks from dowels chucked up in a drill motor...or on their small lathe.

 

Good luck.

 

I'll be watching.

 

Rob 

Rob, finger crossed. lets hope it will be fun  

i dont have lathe at this pioint. I prefer easiest possible solution if i could choose