Ferrus Manus
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Over the last two days, i rigged the lines for the mizzen lateen sail. The reason i rigged the lines now instead of on the ship was the issue of room on the ship. As we go progressively aft and up on the ship, it gets narrower and narrower. This issue of room also boils down to the massive number of shrouds on the main mast. At least i have enough room to belay everything.
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Greetings from Ukraine from Igmar.
Ferrus Manus replied to Igmar's topic in New member Introductions
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This is the finished mainyard, after the martnets and bowlines were completed. I actually had to stop belaying lines on the rails just in front of the sterncastle bulkhead, as it just got too inaccessible. I opted instead for the bulkhead rail itself. If only i had an inch tall mini-me to help me out. Got that nice feel of a legitimate contemporary painting. What i genuinely love about this model is that it legitimately shows an action scene, instead of the sails and rigging just sort of hanging there. Personal preference.
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@kirill4 YOU'RE BACK!!!! YES!!!! 😄
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That actually happened during the Siege of Tenochtitlan in 1521. They built a trebuchet without combat engineers, and it did exactly that. Last time the weapon was ever used in combat. Both the Spanish and Aztec versions of the story recall, in detail, the trebuchet incident. Look it up.
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Mind you, this build has never been unfun. I just needed a short breather from the insane amount of experimentation. Anyways, back to the show. Today i got the main course mostly completed. I did about the same process as i did on the fore, just over a larger area. I did something interesting on this sail. I purposely kept the yard lower than it should be, in order to give the sail the room to properly billow, as per many paintings of the time.
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Oh come on, dude. I need an opinion, not affirmation. Thank you for the encouragement.
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Been really tired the past several weeks, so i haven't done anything on the build. Anyway, i recently acquired a 1/50 scale viking ship. Simple build. Should i do that in the meantime to calm my nerves, or should i continue with the galleon and then do the viking ship when it's done?
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The 2017 instructions are absolutely horrendous. Use the old instructions.
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I bent the main course to the yard. On the left of the yard, you will see two paint bottles on their side. This is intentional. After i lashed the sail, i inserted the foot of said sail between the two paint bottles. Then, i draped the sail over the one on the right. Leaving it for the good majority of a day resulted in the curve you see in the sail. The purpose of this was not to finalize the curvature of the sail, but instead to encourage it to remember a rough shape, making it more willing to obey the lines that will eventually attach to the free corners of the sail, which will finalize the billow.
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Little update, here. I won't be able to work on the ship until probably Wednesday, for lack of blocks. Will get more then, likely. Main course coming up next! (wordplay fully intended)
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Not quite finished yet, mate. You'll pass out when you see the monstrous amount of rigging that goes on the bow. Check out my Spanish Galleon build, it's about twice that much. Truly obscene amounts of hemp.
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Positively magnificent. Someone ought to remind me to take a peek once in a while.
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@Louie da fly congrats on restating what i said in a better and more descriptive manner 😏
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Check out any build log of the H.M. Cutter Cheerful, namely the Vanguard kit by our own Chuck Passaro. Pay close attention to the planking thereof.
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nothing. However, adding drop planks and a tangible plank shift would help. Also, wider wales and rubbing strakes and scarf joints. Lots of scarf joints.
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Jokes on you!! I can plank the Senora Fielden however i want because it's almost 600 years old and almost no historical evidence exists for how it was planked!
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I guess you could refer to this as a work of art, and you wouldn't be wrong. However, i see it as more of a living sculpture or a 3D technical drawing. I will admit, i do feel proud of myself when some of my images look like enhanced close-ups of a Vroom painting.
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This vessel comes from that nightmarish period when the Mary Rose had stopped being a useful source material, but before admiralty models became a thing.
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Bedankt, Baker. Now, i legitimately believe this vessel will be much more complex and insane than your Pelican, only because it is a much larger and more heavily rigged vessel. Also, i figured out how to run the bowlines up to the fighting tops without them fouling on their respective sails, which was your issue on the Pelican. You simply need to run them through the lubbers' holes instead of running them over the tops of the structures themselves. Also, the main course will be slightly easier to rig than the fore, owing to its increased size as well as the fact that the belaying area is larger than the relatively small forecastle.
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The one frustrating thing is that most artists, even Vroom, omitted many small/light lines in the interest of simplicity.
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I got the fore course done today. Surprisingly, there wasn't much more to it than the courses on the Golden Hinde. All that was left to do was the buntlines, topping lifts, martnets, and bowlines.
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@Isaiah I suggest reading this build log as well for help on rigging techniques.
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