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  1. Lapinas
    I had no idea it takes so long to do all the rigging! 😄 I have spent 5 hours, but the progress is barely visible!
  2. Lapinas
    Lots of rigging left, but the ship is starting to take the final shape slowly!
  3. Lapinas
    I have shaped the sails with water diluted PVA glue. It looks like the end is near now!
  4. Lapinas
    I have prepared sails for shaping I have also found that I have made one small sail too many by accident 😄
  5. Lapinas
    I have painted sails today with acrylic paint. I am quite happy with the result. I had to paint from both sides of the sail. Not sure if it is accurate, but pain has seeped to the other side after painting it on one side, so I was basically forced to do it this way
  6. Lapinas
    I redid the main sail, but got the same result... So I have tried ironing it and it helped. Thanks! 😃 Not sure yet. I was eyeing more recent sail ships recently used in sport
  7. Lapinas
    I have finished the sails. I have ordered 4 different batches of bitumen, but when mixed with turpentine it was not giving be a nice color... So after last failure I gave up and went to my local grocery store and bought some black tea 😄 When I was joining the main sail top and bottom parts it looks like the thread got too tight and most likely I am going to redo it.
  8. Lapinas
    I will have sails next week and will receive some dye for it. Hopefully everything will work out!
  9. Lapinas
    Finished ship lantern
  10. Lapinas
    Standing rigging is finished
  11. Lapinas
    More ropes
  12. Lapinas
    Ratlines are done I have made guides for each side. It helped me to maintain parallel lines while rigging.
  13. Lapinas
    Good progress, Emmet! I have to play catch up with you now
  14. Lapinas
    Glued in last missing pieces on the deck
  15. Lapinas
    Added shrouds with deadeyes. Could be better.. but to fix bottom deadeye "holders" alignment is a bit too late What I mean for future builders: This is going to bother me forever This is a great page about making shrouds: https://suburbanshipmodeler.com/2017/10/07/shrouds/ I have tried to maintain spaces between deadeyes consistent by using these hand made tools:
  16. Lapinas
    Small progress update Did a bunch of ropes: This tool is very convenient to cut threads, can recommend:
  17. Lapinas
    In a few hours I have managed to glue front-most mast and tie it down... It was way harder than I expected, everything was so tight and I had to try multiple times until I get it right.. I was not able to figure out what I am doing wrong until I found redhawk Santa Maria build on modelissmo.net (https://www.modellismo.net/forum/modelli-terminati/61121-wip-santa-maria-2.html). It included this blueprint: After I saw it everything clicked in my head finally and I was able to achieve the desired result. I hope this helps for future builders. I would love to have a better instructions for this ship, but maybe it is more fun to work this way. I have spent countless hours studying other people work on this kit.
  18. Lapinas
    Slowly getting there
  19. Lapinas
    Keep up the good work!
  20. Lapinas
    I worked on masts today :) And I have glued in the main mast today! :)
  21. Lapinas
    I have dyed base board and attached ship to it securely
  22. Lapinas
    I am still alive! I have painted shields that go on the ship:
  23. Lapinas
    Nice progress I have to do some catching up with my build!
  24. Lapinas
    I just ordered metal pedestals from Amati and I am waiting for oak baseboard It will take a while... Can't really do anything because, I want to glue masts when ship is fixed in place...
  25. Lapinas
    Looking nice!

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