Theodosius

Thanks for the likes, much appreciated 🙂 Main and main preventer stay next then. I served all four, even though the ones for the foremast have to wait for they're installing. The kit includes some kind of pearls with holes in them as mouse(s, 's, mice? 🙂 ). I tried to serve them, but was not that successfull, I could not get the serving line to hold good on it: The Picture Shows the preventer ones. I had a problem with my main stay: I could not get the served rope through the hole of the pearls. I then tried to enlarge the hole with a drillbit and failed: it crumbled in countless parts… Ok, I have this proxon tool I used for the tapering of the spars, why not try and make bigger ones with matching holes out of some spare wood dowels?: fits nicly: serving the wood also works a Little bit better, even thogh there is much room for improvement, but it works for the time beeing, I think: And then I had an epic fail! I measured it all up, put the eye together, all looked nice and fair, and then I cut the overhang. Noooo, I cut the needed part of it: Damn, make a new one? I think u would have too, but I was to frustrated to make a new one, I just glued it together for a fix, served it a lot, so the damage would not be so prominent: Of Course, that has made it quite big... The other one went quite boring in comparision. Both installed on the ship: Well, I managed to let my mice become some big fat cats, lol :-). Last, some shots of the build so far:

She comes together very nicely 🙂

Thx for the likes, much appreciated 🙂 I made a jig according to plans: Used this to find the needet length of the shrouds, and tie em up using the quad Hands: Was difficult with the served first shroud, because the serving starts to become uneven when I tried to push or pull some sizing loops. I wanted to see how this will turn out in the end, so I temporarily tied the first pair of shrouds on one side: The distance between the blocks could be a Little bit smaler, but then I could put more Tension on the lines when finaly get finished. So lets wait and hope, lol.

Thx for the likes 🙂 Shrouds next then. I prepared, read: served all 10 lines for the lower ones, but install them only on the main mast. Fore mast will follow after the main stays.

Wow, IMO, that was very worth it!

That's a very smooth copper layer, I like it! 🙂

Nice work on your first model! 🙂

Beautiful work! I'm every time surprised how smal theses ships had been in comparison to the Lieutenat 🙂

If you like it the way it is, then it is fine. On the other hand, if you arn't totaly happy with it, change it :-). Only one suggestion: 1/2 a mm is not much, but relative to the 1mm, that it should be, thats 50% more 😉 .

Great project! And thank's a lot for your detailed explanations!

I think your Sphinx has become the gold standard! Just perfect in my eyes!

Gratz! Beautiful model!

Very clever how you get the look of an pof-build without doing one. I like this!

Thank you all for your like's 🙂 Before I build upwards, I wanted to finish the surface treatment first. All our construction reports here provide a wealth of suggestions on the order in which one can rig a model. Surely, each has its advantages and disadvantages. Since I have no experience, I will simply stick to the instructions: First, I glued in the lower masts and the bowsprit. Then came the bowsprit stays, and this wehere I am now. Unfortunately, I couldn't clearly determine whether these need to be served or not. I dressed the two that lead to the stem and did not serve the two on the sides that end in the wales.

Such an impressive work! Masterclass in wood, paint and rope 🙂.