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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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Yeah, we go through an apocalypse every year. If we just went back to traditional methods of eating and living, we wouldn't have this problem.
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@Louie da flyI've read both Chaucer and Beowulf.
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Or maybe, the extant shipwrecks simply show the keel having bent under the stress of almost a thousand years of existence. It could be a common deformation of the wood as it gets eroded away and buried in silt and dirt.
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Stay here for a bit, Steven. The main course's heavy lines are rigged. The lighter lines (buntlines, martnets, bowlines) come next.
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@Isaiah yep! By JUST one year!!
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The next task is to rig the sheets and tacks, before belaying the clews and finally, the buntlines, martnets, and bowlines.
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Then, after that, i rigged the lanyard to the knighthead, and made up the block and tackle, raising the yard into its position. I also i did the braces for the yard. I also did the tackles for the parrel, which are the two sets of double blocks on the deck. They fall to a pair of cleats on the mast.
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