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You put a dab of ca on the very ends to prevent it from starting to unravel, but the twists in the line hold it together for the most part.  Mine is just a cheap one from Model Expo, there are some pretty elaborate ones I've seen folks make though

It looks good there, and you cant make out much detail in the painting, just wondering what type of mechanism they could use to operate it. she's shaping up nice

Yep getting close...you should think about one, they are kinda fun to use and therapeutic  

Nice D, the fore deck looks good, will there be a raised deck in the stern as well?  Just curious how would they have operated the windless under the foredeck?

Decided to break out the rope walk and spin up some shroud lines and anchor rope

these will be the upper shroud lines 

anchor line

the upper copper lines will serve as chain plates to attach the lower deadeyes to the channels, once they're blackened that is, they are copper wire spun up on the walk

finished out the anchors

nd made up some mast rings

test fitting the bow sprint cap

Thanks for the likes thats all for today

The port holes look great...add a lot to the lil deck house

Nice progress Popeye...your jumbo fleet is taking shape decking looks real good, below is the lini to your USS United State s  build

Thx much Ed

Yep Jumbo size  THX

Thanks for hitting the like button...today's update, made and mounted the chain plates 

and also the pin rails

and then started laying out the deck furniture

This kit comes with a lot of hardware the problem is most of it is oversize (thus Jumbo the Clipper) the supplied screweyes are no exception....so I decided to see what I could do to make use of them. I straightened them out and recurved them with a pair of small round nose.  I think they will be usable

Well that's it for now, thanks again for looking in

She looks sweet buddy

After my conversation with Popeye this morning I decided to scrap the tops and go with the cross/trestle trees as he suggested... 

so I made some cheeks

and trestle and cross trees

and inset them both

and glued um up

then made some bolsters, just quartered dowels

and glued them up

and that was it...so both masts now have the appropriate trees, thanks for the likes and comments...and thanks Denis for the solid advice, much appreciated

Thanks much, I’m gonna give em a try, I want to see if I can make um work, a challenge, if you would.  I do greatly appreciate your offer though.

Im only planning on two step masts, main and fore.   Are you going to take the fore up to three?

8 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

I hope someone can correct me,  but if you are going to do a schooner rig,  there are no tops.......just the trestle trees and perhaps a cross tree.  in some cases,  the cross tree will serve as a spreader for the back stays.  what information are you working from?      

Of that I was unaware, but it makes sense...at this point I'm still replicating the kit parts that are unusable.  My plan is to use the American schooner plan layed out in Rigging Period Fore and Aft Craft .   Why don't you like the metal blocks?  

14 hours ago, src said:

That TP solution looks , um... uncomfortable.

8 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

LMAO!   man....that would be like sandpaper....what RPM do you plan on runn'in it?!?!?!  whatever you do....don't hook it to your dremel! 

8 hours ago, Fright said:

All I can say on your TP issue is, "Holy Crap Monkies" !!!!!

All this may be true...but just think how springtime fresh you would be!!

I'm planning on installing one of these 

Now that we've solved that particulier crisis on with the build...still working on little odds and ends.  I'm still planning to use as much of the kit stuff as possible and that includes the cast metal rigging blocks. 

I have no idea what these are made of and nothing I have in my chemical arsenal would blacken them, so I resorted to paint...mixed a very dark brown acrylic and painted them.  Once dried they were shot with a couple coats of matt clear.

Then I turned to the mast tops, new ones were made from the paper patterns, I just glued up some planking stock with cross braces underneath

then cut and drilled the appropriate holes in them

test fit of the fore mast top

and that's all for today...thanks to all who've taken the time to hit the like button or comment

Nice progress D...stain should look good, my planking was nowhere good enough to stain, just barely looks good in paint

Yep that or Depends

between the TP and the stock market everything is going to s---

Planking looks good, you'll be painting soon, what is your paint scheme gonna be?

I think getting the correct"weight" to ropes is toughest part...they look pretty good

Sorry to hear that, if there is a bright side you'll have more time at the table

Have you been virused off Sam?   

Just now, popeye the sailor said:

partners in crime   

Agreed

4 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

....but it was in J's signature   

well, that's true, ok so it is my fault