Beakerboy123
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She’s finished. Thank God for Christmas vacation time! Logged hours: 678h over a 4 year period. The rigging took the lion share of the time overall. What a project. I’m sticking to single masted jobs for a while. Sheesh. Next up is the case. I’m going acrylic. I made my one and only glass one last year and said no more.
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More eye candy. Foremast buntlines. and more of the weird knots in the middle of the line. like the tack knot. I seized the top line and grabbed the knotted end of the lower line. more progress pics
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The topsail cluelines (or clewlines?). Last year I bought Syren’s Rope Rocket Ropewalk and man, does it make nice rope. I bought some high end embroidery thread in tan and black and my lines don’t kink like the kit rope does. The foremast tacks are done also. There’s a cool but fiddly knot sequence to make the tacks that join the sheet block and clue line block with a tack block. See pic from “Rigging Period Model Ship” The tack block is tied down through a block on the boomkin and back thru to the knightshead. I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Looks good. Glad to hear you are recovering from Covid. I’ve been staring at a mass and tangle of lines for so long that those masts look all bare! We’ve all been there!
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Lots done since last post. Finally finished the fore, main, and mizzen mast lifts. Just need to trim tag ends off once the glue dries. Overall I’m happy how they turned out. Took nearly 15 hrs to do. This hobby is certainly not for someone looking for instant gratification… I tied them to their prescribed belay point and affixed rope hanks and coils as I felt were appropriate. The coils may be incorrect but I’m happy with it. It looks “ship-ish”, besides, the directions said to tie to the rail, and I didn’t know what to do with the rope end. It looked kind of awkward hanging there. I have one more set of lifts to do (spritsail yardarms) and then the clewlines and buntlines. Then I’m done.
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Took advantage of the day off to do something I should’ve done a while ago and that is to fix the rope coils astride my guns. The pic shows before and after. I did these coils a few years ago and was never happy with them. This weekend I was looking thru the modelshipworld.com site and came across jigs for rope coils and $3 at the Dollar Store later I have rope coils. I pulled off the old ratty coils and started replacing with clean neat ones. Very happy with the results.
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Here’s another detail Amati really didn’t cover well, the ships boat. I did this some time ago but forgot to post. I had to do some digging on what they looked like but eventually I put on the ship’s boat, at least one of the one it came with. I bought the oars aftermarket. The planks are walnut. I’m pleased how it turned out.
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Foremast yards have their tyes. Now adding tyes to main yards. These are the main jeers and main topsail yard tyes. Looks just like the foremast ones. Next will be the main topgallant tye and halliard. Still not done tho. Mizzen and bowsprit and also all my lifts. Still a bunch to do.
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Finally done with the stays and backstays. Yards are next. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Was starting the foremast backstays, which are just smaller versions of the shroud deadeyes. Using the same (2 x diameter) + radius relation between top and bottom, I decided to use another wire criss-cross jig so that all of the distances were more or less equal. The two crossed wire was so fiddly that I soldered the wires at the intersection. Now it’s easy to insert. before soldering I used a small nail to hold the tops of the deadeye in place, then bent the wires to go into the two lower holes. a little flux, and some solder… Hopefully that’ll work.
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All of the crowsfeet are done. And my stays look to be done. Ready to begin backstays. Here’s the full view so far. The blue tape is there to keep tabs on the back stays that remain. I tied those on before I stepped the masts. I’m actually logging my time on Excel, so each time I sit down and work, I “punch in”. It’s interesting to see how long it takes to do these features, and I try to improve that time if there are multiple of the same, like the guns or masts. I averaged about two and a half hours for each crowsfeet.
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Fore mast stays are done. Rounding off my 3rd Christmas time off with this ship tying (and retying, and re-retying) the maintop stay and maintop preventer stays and hooking them into the deck. I’ll trim some more of the pennants off when the glue dries. Also, I’ll use a jig to create rope hanks and place them on the pin rail. The tie off is temporary.
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Focused on the bowsprit today. Bobstays, fore stays and fore preventer stays attached. Also with touched up Pegasus figurehead. More tomorrow.
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I’m tired of ratlines and I have only the port foremast ones to do, so I thought I’d work with the bowsprit today. Got the gammoning attached. I removed the Pegasus figurehead to touch it up in the booth.
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Took advantage of some time on Sunday to get the mainmast ratlines finished up to the main top. That’ll be it for this week unfortunately.
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Gallbladder surgery allowed me to get out of doing fall chores and cleaning! My wife suggested to go and build my ship because it allowed me to just sit and heal. Got all of the sheerpoles tied off and the mizzen ratlines completed-both sides.
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Added sheerpoles. I tied them to the shrouds with a simple double knot, one in each side of the shroud. Then started the daunting task of the ratlines. I made a width gauge out of card stock to keep the distance the same and more or less keep the lines level. I also cut a black card stock shape to add some relief to the light color thread I was using. This is the stbd side mizzen done.
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The mainmast shrouds are finally done. A few more things and I start the tedious task of the ratlines.
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The foremast shrouds are attached. I found on a youtube how to video that the general rule on deadeyes was (2 x deadeye diameter)+deadeye radius. When I find the link I’ll reference it. I like the height. It “looks” right. I used a wire guide for height that hooked into the lower and upper holes to keep the distance relatively the same height. I saw some deadeyes that had contrasting tan ropes seizing the shroud to the top deadeye, but I decided to make three equidistant seizings of the smaller diameter black line to kind of blend in. Now for the main and mizzen deadeyes. Ugh.
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Port side chain plates are installed. That’ll do it for the time I have over this break (such as it was, having the flu). I’m happy with how they turned out. I think I’ll go over the brass tack heads with black to unify the color of the ironworks. I’m going to add some details to the gunports like lanyards and spans.
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