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Jared

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  1. Over the last week I have been rigging the braces for the yards on the mizzen mask. They went pretty well and are now completed.
  2. Thanks Rich. It is quite magical how it all slowly comes together. These ships, which are a marvel of engineering and human ingenuity, are certainly one of man's most beautifully made creations. To stand on a deck of any tall ship like the Cutty Sark is an incredibly inspiring and humbling experience.
  3. Completed rigging of the mizzen and main topgalant staysail halliards and the handropes above the bowsprit. Items 1 & 4 off the list. I will rig the yard braces next.
  4. The rigging of the flying jib halliard, outer jib halliard, jib halliard and fore topmast stunsl halliard have now been completed. I can see light at the end of the tunnel! I also tightened up the associated standing rigging, replacing one of the lines. Updated Punch List of Outstanding Tasks for Completion of my Flying Fish. Rig the following 2 halliards: Mizen Staysail Halliard, Mn Topgal Staysl Halliard. Rig all yard braces Rig the flag halliards and install the flags. Add the Bowsprit manropes (horses) p/s Complete the insides of 2 ships boats & mount on the supplied davits. Add a few rope coils to the deck Make 3D printed scale figures (crew & officers) (WIP) Final touch up painting and cleaning of the model. Fabricate a case and plaque Celebrate the model's completion with a few well deserved shots of a good single malt scotch!
  5. Thanks to all of you for your valuable insights on the stunsls. I would be very interested to know why the kit designer chose to show the stunsls the way they did, as, if I understand all the discussion correctly, the stunsls would have only been raised in this manner for a short period while the sails were being furled. My model will not have any sails furled or otherwise. As my stunsls are now set in place I am not really up to the task of removing them. I do like the look the way they are now as it adds complexity and colour contrast to the upper part of the model. I also think it adds strength to the fragile yards on the model.
  6. Over the last day I lashed the stunsls to the chain slings then rigged the 6" anchor fish tackle on the model (please see photo below):
  7. One thing I noticed when I installed the stuns'ls on my model is that it gave the model a huge step upwards in the visual appeal and perceived complexity of the model. The "bright" natural colour of the wood provided a nice balance against the black yards, making the latter stad out more. I was quite pleasantly shocked. On tip I forgot to mention was that I used narrow diameter wood dowels from incence sticks to make the smallest diameter stuns'ls, which worked out rather nicely and saved me hours of sanding down wood dowels.
  8. Thanks Rob. It would be nice to see the actual much higher resolution photo.
  9. Thanks Rich. Thanks for improving the photos. My model will be in dry dock for a long time so this works 😀 but I do agree this would not have been the way it would have been most times
  10. You bring up a good point that I do not know the answer too. I have gone through several clipper books I have and can only find 2 examples of the stuns'ls stored in the angular position. One is a drawing on page 7 of the China Tea Clippers by George F. CAMPBELL and the other is a photo of the Great Republic in 1860 (page 71 in Clipper Ships by David R. MacGregor. In most photos I have seen where stuns'ls are present they were lashed to the spar and/or slung beneath the yard. The photo of the Great Republic shows the lower yard stuns'ls slung below the yard while those on the higher yards look like they were lashed the way the Flying Fish plans show.
  11. Today went very well. I made the 6 stunsl yards and glued into place on the fore and main masts. Tomorrow I will add the securing ropes to tie them to the slings.
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