Jump to content
New Publication - Ship Modeler's Handbook - Temp out of stock ×

HIPEXEC

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,698

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by HIPEXEC

  1. HIPEXEC
    I'm nearing the end of the road in building my Connie, so my Admiral keeps asking m, "is it done yet...is it done yet?" Well, it isn't even though it looks like it's finished. So, I put the ship in the living room when not working on it. What can I say?
  2. HIPEXEC
    Thanks...I ordered some through BlueJacket.
  3. HIPEXEC
    I'm not up to scratch building. Thanks
  4. HIPEXEC
    I'm rigging the spanker. Wow...there's a lot more there than meets the eye. I put up the ships colors, also including a pennant on the tip of the main. I made the pennant out of an old flag from my last (first) model.
  5. HIPEXEC
    Thanks, but no 90mm.
  6. HIPEXEC
    Anybody know where to get 90mm longboat kits? Inexpensively?
  7. HIPEXEC
    Believe it or not....I now know....and will forever know....where all those braces, sheets and halyards go. A month ago I was plain stumped!
  8. HIPEXEC
    I was measuring the ship for a case when I got this bird's eye view of her and took these pictures.
  9. HIPEXEC
    Bill, Do the port and starboard whale or jolly boats hang in between the rows of upper and lower guns?
  10. HIPEXEC
    Thank you very much! This really helps me.
  11. HIPEXEC
    Bill, Can you shoot some pics of how you hung coiled lines to your belaying pins? I did what you suggested and ran the lines through the pin holes then re-inserted the pins. Now I want to give the impression of neat coiled lines hanging from each pin.
  12. HIPEXEC
    The chain is prettier than plain rope. Besides, a hank of chain helps set the anchor.
  13. HIPEXEC
    I've just finished installing the anchors.
  14. HIPEXEC
    I finished all the mizzen braces except for the mizzen royal which is braced back to the spanker gaff. When I started this rigging thing...I had no idea how the square rigged ship sailed. Now....fixing each brace one at a time....it now makes good sense to me. This model ship building is an amazing learning experience. Without my long gripping tools, I could never have rigged between the main and mizzen, it is such a spider web of shrouds, ratlines, halyards and braces.
  15. HIPEXEC
    Here's my rigging tools. Thank goodness I have a surgeon friend. He gave me those surgical tools which allow me to reach into the tangle of shrouds and ratlines to fasten lines to the rails. I finished the braces on the main mast. Mizzen next.
  16. HIPEXEC
    The foremast braces have been installed. My thick fingers kept doing damage as I progressed all of which had to be repaired as I progressed. This is the time for stiletto fingers. The main braces will be twice as difficult. The amazing thing is these braces actually work. I can adjust the sails to any angle!
  17. HIPEXEC
    I figured out the first of the upper braces.
  18. HIPEXEC
    I temp installed the spanker to see how it fits. I'll take it down to work on the main rigging.
  19. HIPEXEC
    Here I am putting the "wind" into the spanker.
  20. HIPEXEC
    I've rigged the boom, gaff and luff "pole" so all I'll have to do is slip the luff "pole" into a small hole in the deck I made at the aft base of the mizzen mast and slip the top of that pole into a slot I made under the mizzen fighting top and rig the halyards, etc. I'll keep it off the ship until I finish all the other rigging since I need access to the deck area where the spanker will hang
  21. HIPEXEC
    I'm still distracting myself from completing installing all the braces, halyards, sheets, etc of which I still have very little idea how to proceed while I study all the info you have sent me as well as many rigging books, .....by building the whole spanker sail rig. I do this everytime I get stuck not knowing how to proceed. Instead of being paralyzed by the lack of knowledge....I just jump ahead to something I think I can do. It's the only way I've gotten this far. Full speed ahead...dam the lack of skill and knowledge...is my motto!
  22. HIPEXEC
    I'm working on the boom and gaff for the spanker while I ponder rigging braces, etc.
  23. HIPEXEC
    Thank....these will really help.
  24. HIPEXEC
    I can't wait to get my flashlight and "explore" my shipyard floor. Half my ship should be there.i
  25. HIPEXEC
    You're right....Both ships were fighting the tripoli pirates.

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...