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Hi Bill, the glue sticks are good in that they don’t get the tissue paper too wet so the wrinkles are not as bad as liquid glue. But I do use dilute fabric glue on some seams (gently brushed on with a small brush) that don’t hold if I haven’t got a good coverage with the glue stick. Yes I agree the hardest bit is keeping the strips straight, that tests my hand-eye coordination and my my patience! 😀

I glued them on the backing sheet with a glue stick! Those ones that you twist to extend, sorry, I know I should leave the kids craft stuff alone. 😂

I didn’t actually mark the tissue paper with pencil, I just lined the panels up by eye, so no cleanup of pencil marks needed. I am waiting on the stained sheets (using tea) to dry before making another sail for comparison then decide on which I prefer.

I’m also experimenting with tissue paper sails on my current build, using similar methods to those detailed above. The only change I’m working on is simulating the sails panels with strips cut to scale and glued to both sides of a carrier sheet also of the same tissue paper. Currently testing out staining the tissue first verses painting the sails afterwards. The picture is of the painted version. I will update progress on my Trial log when I get time.

That is an interesting bit of info about gun brigs not having a boat. I wonder if this is to do with them being designed to be rowed inshore anyway? Like the smaller mortar vessels Convulsion & Destruction. You any plans in your files for a little Mortar vessel one day? 😁

They look great Chris, what is the smallest boat you plan on doing? Just thinking for the likes of Adder & Trial etc?

The inside walls “Bulwarks” are red as you say. The outside is a really nice Pear wood that a Chris provides in the kit, so best left natural, just Danish oil or wipe on poly is good. No stain needed. If you wanted to paint then Pale Yellow Ochre or pale bright yellow would be historical accurate. Main thing is to take time carefully masking everything you what to preserve as bare wood. You are doing great, wish this version of Sherbourne was available when I did it as my first build.

I think they look great and will be a fine addition for any of your models with cabins, a great pleasure for viewers finding partially “hidden” details when looking over a model. 😁

Very smart looking deck

Also just seen this and love the work you have done and the lovely lines of this vessel.

Welcome to MSW Olli

Welcome to MSW.

Progress this week has been slow, rigging the stays and redoing about 50% of everything I touched! Added a mouse turned from dowel on the forestay and then painted it dark brown before serving. Otherwise all fairly straight forward following Petterson and the kit instructions. Also would like to add that the ropes I got from Ropes of Scale @BenD are really nice and make my average rigging look much better! One other detail I did add was the addition of Toprope pendants. I know from Lee's they were unrove when not in use from 1800, so thought it would not be too much of a crime to add the pendants as Trial was c.1797. Tied off the thimbles at the same level as the Burton pendants, which added a certain pleasing symmetry. Next stage is to look at loosely adding yards and booms, but acutely aware that from this stage on working space on the model is going to start rapidly shrinking, so careful planning would be good, so I can maintain access and working room for as long as possible... We shall see what I forget to do as time goes on! 😆 Thanks for stopping by and the likes.

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. 👍