Ferrus Manus
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I haven't been doing much in the past week or so. This week I have had more time than usual, so I decided to work on the boat. I made all 16 rope coils and attached them to the boat last night. Then, today, I stained the bottom of the hull a clear gloss. Then comes the fun part. I painted the stand a little differently this time. It's a clear stand. On the bottom side, i painted some splotches of green, and covered that with brown. Then, on the top, i painted two shades of blue, intentionally making it not uniform, mostly so all the different colors could be seen. I quite like it.
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To stain, i use the following paints: Citadel Nuln Oil, Citadel Agrax Earthshade, and Folk Arts Antiquing Medium. The latter works marvelously well, as can be seen on my Spanish Galleon.
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The reason your weathering looked horrible, as you put it, was because you had the wrong paints for the job. I am assuming you were using Revell paints. Revell paints are generally of very poor quality and not suitable for weathering. To weather, you need a stain. Revell doesn't give you those.
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It doesn't have to be. Most people who build with wood stain their ships in large swaths, with wide strokes of the brush. I am pretty bad at painting as well, but i manage. "I'm not artistic enough" was an excuse I gave for a long time before i made my second model. EVERYONE can get better, even you. I certainly did. Getting realistic weathering is a very simple, uncomplicated matter: basically, you smear a paint that looks like grime onto your model, and that's it. Simple as that. I have some paint recommendations for you.
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Today is Columbus day, so ironically, it's a great time to work on your Santa Maria model. I assume you are using the Mataro Nave as a reference? It looks like you took a significant amount of features and replicated them on your model, which is probably a good decision.
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You're making real headway on this! I haven't seen many scratch nao's, so i will be following your build very closely.
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Definitely! If it can be done, it certainly will be.
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This is a boat that fits in the palm of your hand, and i dare anyone to make a scale-perfect representation thereof at 1/96 and keep their sanity.
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The scale and size is simply too small for anything more. I wish i could add more detail and be accurate, but the size of this build is nearly microscopic, as far as model ships go.
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I glued the knots, tied off loose ends, and made the halyard, downhaul, tack, and sheets.
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I would like some input here. Should i have an inner jib and outer jib along with the staysail, or just the outer jib?
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Probably after the Senora Fielden, if i'm not completely burned out by then and never wanting to build a model again, i want to partially scratchbuild a 1/96 Cutty Sark kit into a McKay-style extreme clipper.
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I rigged the jackyard topsail as i had laid out, then partially rigged the staysail. I used rigging line for the stay hoops. I have yet to rig the sheets, halyard, downhaul, and tack.
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It definitely looks like the standing rigging is done. Good job! Now you have an insane amount of blocks to strop.
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That's a wrap on the main gaff. The peak and throat halyards actually do through the same thimble down to the deck. The boom lifts are standing because there aren't enough pins for them to be running.
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I have yet to tie the loops that will become the rigging thimbles, so i have to finish that at least for the main gaff before i do anything with the gaff topsail.
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This is the proposed size and shape of the gaff topsail, laid out on the table. Jackyard topsails were the largest variant of gaff topsail, and often rivaled the size of the main gaff itself. Racing yacht riggers used them to legally increase the sail area of their ships via a loophole in racing rules, hence their prevalence on the racing yachts of the early 20th century.
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@Knocklouder, have you seen this yet?
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Are we able to see it on the ship?
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Today, i got the first sail bent. I cut it out by eye, trimmed it down, and then made a stupid mistake. I lashed the sail to the yard and boom, which i painted yesterday, before i remembered to stain the sail. I went for it anyway because why not. I poured myself a cup of coffee, but the coffee wasn't for me. I dipped the sail, spars and all, into the coffee, not knowing if the hot liquid would strip the paint, which would mean a junk sail and a second paint job. Luckily, the paint didn't strip. For "jaws" for the gaff and boom, i simply tied a rope around the end of both and tied the ends around the mast. I made "mast hoops" by running a line through the head of the sail and tying it around the mast. Here is the finished result, minus gluing and trimming the knots.
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"The Ship" by Bjorn Landstrom just showed up in the mail, and let me tell you, i would've spent a lot more than 20 bucks on it. Incredible book; I'm currently reading the section on carracks.
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I'm pretty sure at the angle he had it in the first picture, it would go through the door.
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I meant that thing that looks like a mast with a sheave in it that's sitting in the far background, up against the back wall of your workspace and partially obscured by the sheet you have protecting your workspace.
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Will you end up making a calcet (sheave piece on the mast) for the yard's lift? Edit: I JUST realized you're making... another boat? You had two kits?
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