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Jim Lad
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Found this photo which may help you to visualise the job, Kevin. It's of the derelict steam trawler 'Viola' and is from the web site of the Australian Company of Master Mariners. John
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Kevin, I'm a bit late on this discussion, but steel wire rope was usually a very dark grey unless very new. That might give you a few more options. I would suggest that a trawler of your model's age would have shroud eyes spliced around thimbles - easily done by the crew. John
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Hello Doug, and a warm welcome to the forum from down in Sydney. John
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Kevin, many more modern small ships used wooden slats for the ratlines (if they had any at all). They were simply lashed to the centre two shrouds. John
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G'day John, and a warm welcome to the forum from across the ditch! John
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Hello Vesihiisi and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello David, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
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Looks like a ship, mate! John
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Hello Algirdas, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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Hello Wahka, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
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More delightful work! John
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Hello Dana, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. The usual way on solid hulls is to cut a rabbet to receive the bulwarks. John
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All proceeding at your usual breakneck speed, Popeye! John
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.! John
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They'd have to convene a working party of a sub committee to consider something like that, Mark. John
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Thanks for the encouragement, Folks. No way out of the meeting that I can see - it's a case of, "Oh, John, we just need to have a quick chat about ……….." John
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Cheers, mate. We just like to check every now and then as sometimes people can get a bit over enthusiastic about downloading interesting information. John
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Bruce, where did this journal come from? Are you sure that it's free of copyright? John
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The external planking creeps slowly ahead. The last couple of visits to the museum I seem to have been spending at least as much time in meetings with staff as I have model making. Perhaps I'm slowly being drawn into the bottomless black hole of the public service! John
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Now that looks like it will give you a lot of fun, Popeye! John
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She's grown a lot since I last checked in, Kevin - very nice work indeed. Just to reinforce Roger's comments, here are details from (old) photos of a couple of my old ships when in dock. Although they are obviously much larger ships, you get the idea. In the first one the hull rivets around the stern of the 'Sydney Breeze' are completely invisible to the eye from this distance. In the second photo some of the rivets around the forecastle of the 'Thames Breeze' are visible due to the shadows caused by the strong light on white paint, but they're certainly still not prominent, or even really noticeable unless you're looking for them. John
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