popeye the sailor

the difference in the deck alone is something to admire.......hard to remove all that molded crap! you've really made some superb progress since I last looked in I wish I had your weathering abilities.........just green with envy. very nicely done!

I dunno.......I think the snake is rather cool, although I'm not sure if Bounty had it or not. the ratlines look really good......but I think they might be too far apart. I hate to see you get too far ahead, and then find this out. perhaps someone can confirm this. I waste more thread.........fat fingers can be a curse

the hull looks great

that's a quality shine Grant........really nice R/C set up too!

very nice rigging..........so close to the big finish

nice color for the decking......it looks awesome! really nice progress

great progress Jerry she's look'in super nice! we all have our ways in attaching sails.......we do what is comfortable and easier.........there's no wrong way in that amazing how quickly you moved through this build........very well done!

sorry about the late reply gents.......I wrote this the other night and forgot to post it I should know better than to visit during the work week, as I am usually quite tired and tend to fall asleep at the computer. the admiral ends up herding me into the living room, where I'll end up sleeping on the couch. I hope to retire someday 7-2-2017 thanks Piet.......with the large scale Revell kits I've done in the past....I've had the chance to try things out. some of the running rigging can be done somewhat limp, and will have hardly any impact on the rest of the rigging thanks Patrick........Gibbs is hardly an issue........I do my best not to drop anything on the floor the trawler is 1:30......I think.....the Jolly Rogers is 1:130........yepper, big difference! I have a large living room.......that's where I put up the big shelving that I photo'd the group. I'm thinking of moving them around to try and add another shelf. then again, there's no complaints about me putting up another one thanks for the kind word! I do have a few pictures in the camera still..........the spanker have the sheet lines and the vangs now. I've also done the mizzen stay sail. next will be the rest of the sails......then I can do the lifts and braces. thanks to all who hit the like button 7-4-2017 I love this new feature in the reply submission.......without it, all that I had written would have been lost. it brings it up and gives you the option to keep it or delete it....perfect for guys like me! hi there Frank! I can't believe I'm working with plastic sails either they're just right for this model though....it's the rigging that I'm focusing on. I'm trying to incorporate the way it's supposed to be done, as opposed to how it's done with plastic kits. there is so much that is left out........for anyone to add any into their builds, will enhance the model quite a bit! one oversight I did was to rig blocks with a eye bolt on both ends.......with the way I see the lifts running, the extra eye will not be needed. no biggie.....I can simply trim them off. I also forgot to add them for the lower mizzen yard......but that's not a big problem either. I'm almost out of the gray blocks.......I will have to use some of the brown blocks for the yards.....I have no more single blocks in gray. you might say I wasted four of them......adding them to the backs of the fore and main tops, but I'm not going to remove them, since they seem to add a tiny bit more detail. I finally got the pictures out of the camera too. here's where the model is so far.........the vangs and sheet lines for the spanker sail. then the mizzen stay sail...... then the lower mizzen yard.........I forgot to add the blocks I'll see how much 'yard' work I can get done today

as I mentioned a while ago......it was good that you didn't use the Billing supplied parts for the chain plate. I still have a good inventory of those flat pieces, and I continue to use them for other things she's looking great..love what you did for the chains........really nice progress as well I built a Guillow's Piper Cub as my very first, when I was in school.......there's a rather funny story that goes long with it. I had a great teacher {literally!} though it only had a 12 inch wingspan, it's would be a mosquito compared to what your future holds for you.........I am green with envy! I'll look forward to the start of that build

some wicked nice progress going on here Danny....the props, stand, and the structure look great! very neat and clean

really sweet progress Bob.......nicely done on the furnishings

looking good KP it takes the sheer beauty of the sails to bring them around that's what I love most about this Revell series, they build to really nice looking models.

I agree ....shrouds look great......and yes.....the stay looks alright ...right where it is

OMG Kevin....she's beautiful! so glad you stuck with it and finished her a truly awesome ship........I'll have to see her in the gallery

wonderful progress Jerry.......nina's really look'in good

thanks Bob. there isn't much sag because I try to make the standing rigging more taught than the running rigging. to dissect the roles that rigging plays the shrouds do {I believe} about 80% in maintaining the erect centering of the masts. the stays maintain the forward pull, where the back stays provide the backward pull, giving a sort of tripod support for the masts. plastic models display the rigging.......the stays, merely tied to the associated mast. coming here on the site, I've gotten to see how the stay rigging is actually done....routed through a block and then down to an adjustable pulley assembly, at deck level. having these blocks from the Revell kits, enabled me to try this out on the model. I really like how it looks.......and it's a lot more plausible than what is seen in the plastic model. I arrived with a formula for finding absolute zero. all thread has different amounts of stretch. take a piece in your fingers and pull it tight.......then loosen it gradually, until it starts to become limp. repeat the test and study the tension.....at the point where the thread begins to go limp.....that tiny window in between is absolute zero. standing rigging should be a little tighter than that......the running rigging should be at zero. I used to have that problem too.......but using this formula, it's worked out much better. ideas and methods that I gleaned from here have also helped. thanks for the good word thanks Russ and EJ for the likes

I'm not a big fan of using CA for rigging.........for the very reason you see in some of the pictures. it seeps down the thread and makes it stiff and hard to shape. for most of the rigging, I used white glue. I ran into a bit of trouble with the spanker sail........punching holes in the wrong edge. I took the one out of the Flying Dutchman kit to replace it.........I'll either trim the other sail, or fish around in the box of sails for something that will work {I have an abundance of these sails from the Cutty build}. of course the angle of the gaff didn't match the original sail and I compensated for it......but I also forgot to do this with the replacement sail. no harm though, cuz I was able to do it. I added a single block on the upper step of the main mast for the upper mizzen stay sail. as I did with the main mast stays, I will do with the mizzen stays, tying a double block to each one of them. they came out just as well too I did the mizzen back stays before rigging these two. the running rigging needs to be done, in regards to the spanker sail. eye bolts were added on both bulwarks, and one was added to the rudder. after I add two more eye bolts, I can ad the monkey chain. and this is where I leave off again. there one more stay sail to hang, and then I can move on to the yards........eight of them....seven will have sails. more soon! thanks for look'in in

time for an update I've been busy with the standing rigging......it's been interesting, since the masts are pretty flimsy. getting them so they are not contorted out of shape has been a trial, but I've done a reasonable job of it. where I left off was with most of the standing rigging done on the fore and main masts.......the mizzen had suffered a set back, with the spanker gaff breaking off. the build stand I made is working out very well, in keeping the ship stable and upright......I've been able to go a lot further. the first thing to be done, was to cement the spanker gaff back in place. I had to use the lift rigging to help with holding it in place as it dried. while this was drying, the sails were sewed to the bow spirit yards and they were cemented in place. it's been quite some time since I dealt with plastic sails.......they came out well. the jib sails were cut out, along with the main stay sail, and these too were tied and rigged into place. it can be seen that the spanker gaff was dry enough to complete the lift rigging. the mizzen wasn't out of the woods yet though.........one cuff later, and one of the shrouds became dislocated underneath. I had to wait till all cement points were dry, so I could remove all the clothes pins and repair it. the mizzen stays and back stays have wet to be done anyway, so that will get pushed back for a little while. I need to add a couple more lines to the bow, as well as the anchors.

gee.....if you touched up the mating line.......I can't tell very nice!

your mak'in some swell progress on her Daniel looks great!

the hull's look'in really nice ........having never worked with paper before.....I'd be a lost puppy did you have any luck with the gray touch up paint?.......you mention here that you have the red dialed in. mak'in some good progress here

excellent workmanship! so glad to see you back in the shop

my Cutty copy doesn't show blocks associated with the sheet lines, which tie off on the port side #55, #56, #56A......just a line tied to the stay sails. do keep in mind though that these instructions don't show all the lines......there are duplicates for the opposite side. this is why I have all these extra block to play with on the Jolly Rogers...I forgot about this face when I did the Alabama. looking on the starboard side, there are three pins in the same place on the pin rack, but they are not numbered. in some cases on the instructions, they will give you the number of the opposite line {pin}.

were you going to use them for the breech ropes? you could use eye bolts or even cleats, since it sounds like they aren't going to do the job.