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  1. AJohnson
    Hello shipmates! Since the last update I've been wrangling shrouds and deadeyes into some resemblance of respectability. This hasn't always gone smoothly and there has been a considerable amount of "redo's" to get them looking as best I could manage, at one stage it looked like the poor old Trial had been in a scrape with a French Privateer like her original namesake - rigging all shot to pieces! 😆 Anyway, glad I redid them, for the few extra hours, would be as nothing to the countless times I would have looked at them later and not been happy if they had been left... The fore shroud was served for the full length and the remained the top portion only, I've also added Burton Pendants as a little detail. I am starting to think about the order in which the rest of the rigging gets completed as I am adding sails. I think the foresail first, once I have the Forestay is added as this won't get in the way too much, then Jib sail, but this will be vulnerable as an extremity. Then yards, or mainsail? 🤔 Another thing that I'm pondering is how the topmast shrouds were adjusted if the lower yard was braced round for the wind? On the RMG model referenced before:- - the foremost topmast shroud is already deflected and rubbing up against the lower yard when the yard is simply perpendicular to the keel, but when braced one way or the other, this must really have deflected the topmast shrouds a lot! These must have been served and regularly replaced due to wear? Lennarth Petterson's Cutter in "Rigging period Fore and aft craft" (based on the model in the London Science Museum, shows tackles for adjusting these shrouds when the yards are braced? Perhaps this is something I could replicate? Plenty to ponder as I start on the Ratlines! 😬 Thanks for looking in and the likes. 😁
  2. AJohnson
    Glad you had a great river cruise Glenn. Your Adder coming along nicely. I will also be watching how the second planking goes on that bluff bow, as this is my next build.
  3. AJohnson
    Congratulations on finishing her. 👏
  4. AJohnson
    Fantastic details Mike, those little AA guns look very neat! 👏
  5. AJohnson
    Wow, that is looking really good Graham! Almost looks like you are inside an upturned boat!
  6. AJohnson
    That paint job looks very smart Alan.
  7. AJohnson
    Progress for this last few days has been adding blocks and the like to the mast and yards. I have also made a start on the rigging of the Bowsprit, adding the traveller for the Jib as I will be adding sails, it doesn't sit right at the moment but hopefully will be better when the Jib halliards are added and counter balance the inhaul/outhaul. Deep breath - looks like some rigging now on the horizon! 😬 Thanks for looking in and the likes.
  8. AJohnson
    Great looking ship, looks to have nicer lines than Cruizer/Snake. That cutter/guillotine looks good and solid, is it metal? I have cheap plastic one that rocks about when cutting strip, so don’t use it much.
  9. AJohnson
    Small update for today, I have completed the masts and yards; well at least the sawdust making part! I need to add blocks and footropes etc yet. I have also completed the two anchors, experimenting again with he Servo-o-matic to serve some wire for the anchor ring puddening before bending the wire into a hoop, this seemed to work okay. Other enhancements was to add the bolt holes in the wooden stocks and use wire to simulate the bolts. I decided to not use the PE for the studding sale booms and irons, but refashioned these out of copper eyelets and tubing for those. Next up lots of blocks and serving of lashings and trying to make these all look tidy without entombing everything in C-A as I normally do! Thanks for looking in and the likes.
  10. AJohnson
    Good luck to you Chris 😆 - Seriously, hope the VM team goes from strength to strength. 👍
  11. AJohnson
    Hi Simon, congratulations on finishing Trial it looks very good. Enjoy your summer activities before the next build.
  12. AJohnson
    Also will be pulling up a chair to follow along.
  13. AJohnson
    Congratulations, a great model and will be on many’s MSW bookmarked lists for reference I am sure.
  14. AJohnson
    It certainly has, well done Alan!
  15. AJohnson
    Well OC you have definitely had your three! Hope you are on the mend soon ( and your glasses and your laptop!)
  16. AJohnson
    Thanks everyone for the likes and comments. As something of a partial diversion I have assembled and started to experiment with Chuck's Servo-o-matic that I got months ago. Just used up some old threads for practice first, then served some line for block strops and did a few for the bowsprit. For the bowsprit I have not used the PE spider plate, but gone more with, as I have mentioned before, the Cutter chapter in Lennarth Petersson's Rigging Period Fore & Aft Craft, and as such have added blocks for the Topsail and main yard braces and Topsail yard bowline thimble blocks. Eyelets at the tip are set into a white metal ring, I also replaced the thin PE bowsprit securing iron with copper wire flattened and shaped to suit. The last picture shows the main mast and boom just dry fit for a quick preview at how she will look later, all for now.
  17. AJohnson
    Welcome to MSW Nick!
  18. AJohnson
    Great details, really like the new curved gratings.
  19. AJohnson
    Thank you for the ensign tutorial, it looks very good with those natural curves in it. Quick question, did to airbrush both sides? If so could you see through sufficiently to line up the red and blue okay, just curious for when I try it! 👍
  20. AJohnson
    Hi Dan, that looks like a great first layer of planking to me.
  21. AJohnson
    Looking very atmospheric Alan especially the b&w version of the picture, can’t wait to see these finished.
  22. AJohnson
    Really impressed with how neat your work is. This log is a great reference for cutter builders - I know I am often consulting it for my Trial build. 👍
  23. AJohnson
    Nice to see you back on your Diana Dave. Looking very smart.
  24. AJohnson
    Welcome to MSW Stuka. If the Sherborne interests you as a subject then I agreed that would be my choice also. Start a build log for advice, it also helps the kit designer and owner of Vanguard models in on MSW! 👍
  25. AJohnson
    Looks great Alan.

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