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  1. marsalv
    Thanks David for your kind words . Little bit progress - preparing for attaching the boat + bowsprit and jibboom footropes (including fore staysail net).
  2. marsalv
    So I moved a bit further - I installed spritsail, jib and fore topmast staysail.
  3. marsalv
    toms10 - your welcome . I tied all sails to the spars and now they are prepared to install them on the model.
  4. marsalv
    So finally the reef points was "only" 446 pieces . Sails are completed.
  5. marsalv
    Sails are completed. I´m gonna continue with cca 500 pcs of reef points.
  6. marsalv
    robert22564: thank you for your kind words KeithW: sails without puckering is no magic, bottom and top thread tension must be equal and not too big. If the tension is too big you can see puckering. I completed all reef bands, buntline cloths, middle bands, leech linings and mast cloths. I hid the sewing machine again in a cabinet with the hope that at least two years I will not need it. Next phase - bolt ropes.
  7. marsalv
    I finished the first phase of sails production - tabling. Now I will continue with the reef bands, middle bands, leech linings etc.
  8. marsalv
    So I finished installation of blocks on the yards (cca 100 pieces). Most of them are fixed with served ropes, so it took a while.
  9. marsalv
    Works continues with installation of footropes and blocks on individual yards - it is tedious and monotonous work. But I am coming to an end, yet few pictures of lower yards.
  10. marsalv
    I finally finished the standing rigging. It took me more time than I expected, but I'm satisfied with the result. Now, going into the next phase of construction - hanging blocks on the yards.
  11. marsalv
    Thanks SawdustDave . All (maybe?) blocks are now installed.
  12. marsalv
    I installed top mast stays and backstays. I had little fear of small mice, but in the end it went quite well. Now I await installation a lot of blocks to the top mast top area. There are many blocks in limited space.
  13. marsalv
    Thank you Joe . You´re right. All futtock staves are made from brass wire (diameter 0,5 resp. 0,3 mm) and the served with thread.
  14. marsalv
    I continue with top masts, shrouds and ratlines. Work goes slower than I expected. But the model starts to increase in height.
  15. marsalv
    Thanks Dave .
  16. marsalv
    So I finished perhaps the worst part of standing rigging (at least for me) - crowsfeet. I had to redo it several times before I achieved at least partially satisfactory look - ie. crowsfeet rope stretched as far as possible without "lifting" the stay.
  17. marsalv
    Futtock shrouds.
  18. marsalv
    Installation of lower yard jeer tye blocks and top final assembly. Slowly it begins to take shape.
  19. marsalv
    The belaying pins and cleats are installed on the shrouds.
  20. marsalv
    You're partially right. The first two pictures are the futtock staves and third are the catharpins. But the futtock staves don´t run through the end of catharpins. Catharpins are attached to the futtock staves with thread witch is going through loop in the catharpins and about futtock staves.
  21. marsalv
    Thanks for nice comments to all . To GuntherMT: The catharpins are made form one thread - see picture tutorial.
  22. marsalv
    Little bit more pictures.
  23. marsalv
    Little progress - futtock staves nad catharpines are installed.
  24. marsalv
    Hi to all, the most useful books for me are the following: - Masting and Rigging of english ships of war - James Lees - Rigging a sixth rate sloop of 1767-1780 - David Antscherl Citation from the second one: "In reality there was an eye spilce in each end of line that was then seized to the end shrouds, and the line clove hitched around each intermediate shroud. For model work, unless you are absolute purist, this can be simplified by omitting eye splices and seizing." It is also my case, I used the clove hitch for all shrouds. The knot is finally fixed with small drop of diluted PVA glue.
  25. marsalv
    Ratlines.

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