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    Yep, suckre number 2,013, here... just bought one, an age trying to use it, useless to create proper spacing of the shrouds let alone ratlines.... DOH!
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    Sorry Allan, I've been lost in gun carriage rigging chaos for over a month. I haven't checked in for quite a while. I have to admit I bought loads of thread thickness variations to research what would be right at a later date (miles away from doing the masts, let alone the rigging). Any advise would be much appreciated Allan, thank you. All the best Wade
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  15. wade13
    More than a model ship designer, a full shipwright and your work is incredible. At every juncture, you question and redefine, until you feel and know the Sovereign like very few others (including those of the 17th Century). I feel like the child of time, sitting up high in dry dock, swinging my legs as I watch captivated; eating dry milled bread and a chunk of cured cheese. Practical, perfectionist and the patient beyond belief... you truly are a shipwright and have made me love the craft. Thank you
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    As a rough guide of thumb / rule, the mainstays are the thickest ropes holding the masts. The basic rule is whatever the main mast measures in diameter, the mainstay is 1/6th of that. So if the model measures 7mm diameter, the mainstays will be 1/6th of 7mm (1.16666r). Then as a general guide, the shrouds are half the thickness of the mainstays (1/2 of 1.1666r) which is about 0.58mm, guide down to .55 or up to .6mm for the pitched shroud lines. The thickness of the ratlines is then done to the scale of your average 'ships hand'... for his feet and hands... This is the clever rule of scale Harry Houdini uses on his Youtube channel about ship rigging... and I am doing a 1/168 scale Sovereign of the Seas and find his guide quite astute.
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    i have just bought a 39 year old Royal Sovereign Airfix kit... my first model I ever made. I have built her a few times previously, but not to the standard i wish to do as my last model... you are all masters and have given me so much inspiration. I have the John McKay book, but there are so many flaws, from no Ships bell, to a bus-stop officers companionway leading out to the second deck... like you all I have admired the Sovereign in all her names and rebuilds to find her enigma half of her charm. I hope to do her justice. Can I ask a couple of questions? Where would the capstan on the main deck go? By the main mast or forward? Secondly, how can i get the planking effect of the Master Rex Stewart on the hull bottom... thinking of pencilling them in faint with nail marks, but that seems impossibly 'sketchy'. Thank you again for sharing your skills and knowledge of the Sovereign. Wade

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