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BANYAN

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  1. That's excellent work Wefalck and will add some great detail to your build. cheers Pat
  2. I like the technique you have used for the stauntion bases; very effective! I'll store that tid-bit away for future use cheers Pat
  3. Very nice Greg - but slow down mate, how can I catch you at this rate cheers Pat
  4. Almost there Piet; not many more things you could add this very nicely detailed model (or is there?) I know you still have the rubber boat to come and I am looking forward to how you solve that question. cheers Pat
  5. Very nice work and well worth the reworked bits Mark; she is looking really nicely symmetrical even without final fairing. cheers Pat
  6. Simply STUNNING Alex; I really look foward to your more frequent updates now that you will have more time for modelling. this is a very fine exemplar of a master modeller at his craft! cheers Pat
  7. She's coming along beautifully John; that's good progress noting the disruptions. Enjoy your holiday also. cheers Pat
  8. She is looking superb Greg. No fear mate, I won't ever catch up with you - how else would I know what to do with my rigging - lead on with your fine artistry good sir! cheers Pat
  9. Hi and thanks to all whom have looked in and offered encouragement; much appreciated. Mike, I have used a combination of scale rope that I have made (standing rigging which is LH laid) and MoRope for the running rigging (the beige coloured stuff). Chuck did not have his rope available at the time I purchased the MoRope, otherwise I would have used that, until I get to grips with making 'consistently' good RH laid on my Byrnes ropewalk. The standing rigging varies between 1.2mm to 0.5mm for the standing rigging depending on purpose and position (smaller dimensions as I go upwards in the rigging), and between 0.8mm down to 0.25mm for the running rigging. I will probably use 0.15 scale rope for the rattlin. I use Gutterman cotton (appropriate colour) for my seizings. With this model scaled at 1:60, I think these sizes are generally right. I used the excellent spreadsheet produced by Danny and Jim Lad to calculate the rigging sizes but I have 'generalised' some rigging so that I did not have to have a lot of different sizes. Basically, I have rounded to the 'nearest' size in my inventory of scale rope available, but ensuring sizes change in accordance with purpose etc as stated earlier. I hope that answers all your questions Mike? It may be a few days between looking in for the next couple of weeks so bear with me please if I do not respond overnight cheers Pat
  10. Hi folks, I am about to head off on some holidays so I thought I had better post an update of my latest additions to my Endeavour. the rigging is proving to be a challenge in determining what goes where as this is my first rigged model. cheers Pat
  11. I know that feeling (frustratio0n only too well also mate - keep plugging away and you will get there (it has only taken me 8 years so far ) cheers Pat
  12. Hey Chuck, that's why you need to get a set of 'ship's curves' - slightly different lines cheers Pat
  13. You have a real talent for 'smithing' Danny; must be something in your genetics? cheers Pat
  14. Nice to see another update Russ; she is progressing slowly (like my Endeavour) but with a lot of "class" cheers Pat
  15. Hey Rusty, welcome back and a very nice start - I am sure you will get into the 'groove' of it fairly quickly as Chuck suggests. I will follow along with interest . cheers Pat
  16. Robin, I would not be surprised that, as Greg has indicated, it is a technique rather than a type of anchor - specifically, I would also not be surprised that he did not have a kedge anchor ready to 'let-go' from the quarterdeck/aft to assist with hauling the ship off a sandbar or the like when exploring uncharted waters. This would have been prepped ready to drop very quickly at the first inkling of the ship potentially grounding. It could also be just a smaller anchor prepped to 'let go' from the standard (forward) positions while in costal waters (not requiring as much time/effort to let-go?)? Cook also used the term stream-anchor quite separate from coasting anchor, which to my mind indicates a different purpose for the coasting-anchor. For example: "On the 4th of December, they stood into the Typa, and moored with the stream-anchor and cable to the westward." Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook That said however the following indicates it would have also been prudent to have a stream anchor ready to use at short notice should a sudden storm or other conditions require temporary anchorage with little warning during coastal navigation/surveying: Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. I have not been able to locate anything definitive. cheers Pat
  17. She's really taking on the her true shape now John, nice work. cheers Pat
  18. Very nice details Danny, filing the square in the spanshackles must have been 'fun' cheers Pat
  19. She's looking great Greg; not far off finishing her now. cheers Pat
  20. Nice job Mark; take a bow and several rum 'tots' to celebrate cheers Pat
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