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Suddenly coming together, I love Chris’s new style engraved pear bulwarks.

Thank you all for your likes and kind comments from the last update. Not a great deal to show for what seemed like a lot of effort at times, but I have completed the ratlines and the Topmast shrouds. The ratlines actually went okay once I got into the "groove" of doing them and slowed down to take time to tease/allow the thread to curl they way it wanted to whilst doing the clove hitches, so the free end to the next clove hitch stayed flat and didn't want to kink upwards and also taking care to use fine tweezers to help the knot tighten into the correct location to avoid moving it about later and the evitable loosening of the knot that causes. The topmast Shrouds have turned out satisfactorily, I might not go so far as to say I'm "happy" with them, but my rigging skills would not produce noticeable improvements with yet more redo's! 🙄 They are something of a compromise between the details provided by Lennarth Petterson's Cutter in "Rigging period Fore and aft craft" and the contemporary model referenced before. Most noticeable being the tying-off to the Dead eyes (as per. the contemporary model) rather than their own eyelets as shown in Petterson. I have tied off the port side, but have not done the same yet for the starboard side, as some adjustment will be needed for the deflection of the Topmast shrouds caused by having the lower yard braced to that side. I am having the yards braced as though the wind is coming onto the Port quarter, partly for looks, but also to make the model narrower for the designated shelf width! 😆 These Cutters with their large sails have a deceptively large footprint for display purposes! Next up the rigging of stays, whilst preparing for the addition of sails. Hoping for an incremental improvement over the ones I added to my Nisha 🤞:- Thanks for looking in! 😁

Great news!

Yes hope you are alright Glenn! 🤕

Congratulations Dave a great looking model.

Another milestone on your Diana build, looks great. Enjoy your holiday Dave. 😎

Since when has that stopped us S.A.B.L.E’s (Stock Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) 🤣 - you know you want to Dr. Per…. 👼

Good rescue on the paint job, and I like the details you are adding Jay with reference to Marsh; I also referred to him for my Nisha build, his books are a goldmine of useful information and drawings. Looking forward to seeing your weathering work.

My wife would agree! about the part in ()’s - (from another Tyke!) 🤣 Looking really smart Keith! 👏

Welcome to MSW!

Well done Alan a neat little project!

Don’t worry we have all been there, well I have anyway! 🤣 Good progress. 👍

Congratulations, that is a beautiful model and it is a whopper! 👏👏👏

That planking looks super Ronald! As for the gaps you mention, then I can’t see any that are nearly as large as the etched detail deliberately put in the bulwark sides anyway! Good job!

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. 😁

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.

Congratulations on finishing her. 👏

Fantastic details Mike, those little AA guns look very neat! 👏

Wow, that is looking really good Graham! Almost looks like you are inside an upturned boat!

That paint job looks very smart Alan.

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.

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.

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.

Good luck to you Chris 😆 - Seriously, hope the VM team goes from strength to strength. 👍

Hi Simon, congratulations on finishing Trial it looks very good. Enjoy your summer activities before the next build.