Katsumoto

Take it with you for your next ship, like Mark said, move on it looks fine mate!

Please take the lady with the big hat with you... 😎

22 then...Happy Birthday my friend! A nice update and I really like the idea of the curved planking on the forecastle's bulkhead! Well done!!!

**It's a fiddling process...** Hello mates! In my previous update I started with the first ratlines on the shrouds and with this update I continue this process, but I didn't had a lot of spare time to work on the SM. However, it's enough to write this small update. All the knots which are made with the ratline are called a "clove hitch". For the ends of the ratlines, it was custom to spliche the rope and loop it around the first and last shrouds. I tried this technique and this was a serious undertaking. I then tried an alternative way by making a clove hitch and then loop the endpiece of the ratline around the shroud again. Then I use my wrapping technique, which is a sort of whipping, to fasten the rope. In the end it was still a lot of fiddling work, but it was easier to do and the result looked similair. Ofcourse it's much easier to glue the clove hitch at the first and last schrouds end that will be the end of it, but why would I choose the easy way out right? So, after the test of the end parts, I continue with the ratlines... I shoot the process how I make a clove hitch knot... And we continue the process until I reach the top! Phew...I made it....Now I had to finish the end pieces of the ratlines by the process I explained earlier....So a few hours later..... And the endresult... This ship has only two shrouds with ratlines, I pity those....no I respect those fellows and galls who's building a Man o War or a frigate! My dear what a work will that be... It's the end of this update again....Next is the other side that has to be done on the exact same way. Wish me luck okay? See ya! Peter

Keep going, you are doing a great job for your first model ship! The metal in the kit is an alloy called pewter. It’s like 90% tin and some other metals like zink, copper. It’s cheap and easy to cast for the fabricator. They will be painted over in a later stadium, so it doesn’t matter what material they are made from. regards, Peter

It’s like almost if you build this ship before...😉 great work sir! 👍🏻

I’m only looking at the beautifull lady with the big hat! 😬

Thank you for all the kind words Guys. You, reactions means a lot and makes me a bit humble. respect to you guys! Peter

Yes, first I make the running lines of a light colour and standing rigging dark. It was common in the past to do it that way. Second, I like the contrast between the dark and the light.

*rigging continues - shrouds* Hello my friends, A small update where I continue on the rigging and especially the rigging of the shrouds. So, be gentle with the comments....it's my first time working on shrouds like this... So deadeyes and lanyards continues. Everything is thightend after some 48+ hrs. Found a small wooden project to do....this is the last woodworking on this ship... Never been so fast writing an update lol....until next time! Peter

You are doing a wonderful job Max! Don’t be sad, be happy!

No problem my friend! 👍🏻

Thanks for the encouragement Mark! Rigging is not my specialty but I try to manage...sometimes with a bit of luck and common sense here and there it usualy pays out. I won’t call myself a newbie but I’m not very experienced with rigging either. 😬

Amazing! What a lot of work...What about the thickness of the plating vs the hullplanking?

Specificly love the subtile black on the lanterns, galleries and windows! Top notch and beautifull ship. I am very glad you didn’t turn her into pulp! 😬

Very nice sir! Love the colour of the wood after the varnish. Clean build so far!

Thanks Harlequin!! I like your build as well. Thanks for stopping by! The poor mans lathe rocks!

No, the shrouds goes around the mast at the base of the crows nest. I believe it's for the rigging of the topsail and yard and presumably the top flag. I'm just figuring out the drawings of the rigging. They are the worst I've ever seen. They show only the end result, not the steps how to get to the end result. I think it's the biggest mistake a kitmaker can make. They should help the builder not to confuse or frustrate them by bad schematics, drawings and a lousy manual...

They are a sort of old fashioned cleats.

Thanks guys! I am not sure about the sails Christos...I’ll cross that bridge when I Get to it.

**Chapter 12 - The art of rigging** G'day my fellow mates! In this update I'll show you the last parts of wood turned into something usefull and the first baby steps with rigging the ship. It's the last stage of this build and untill now what a journey it is. I hope you guys and galls stick with me to the end...so I can count on your support. I'll need it, because rigging is not my speciality at all.... Besides good quality books of rigging, I tend to use some of the knots, whippings, lashes etc described in these books, but I also use other methods that will give the same "authentic" result. Doesn't matter if it's in fact not.... Did I say that out loud? So stay with me off we go. The last wooden parts of this ship's being made... I still use my "poor mans lathe" to taper the end part of a straight piece of wood... The mizzenmast being formed. I drilled a small hole of 1mm in the middle. I use a pin to insert in the hole and connect it with a block. So I drilled a hole in the block as well. The pin wil be there for strenght but not shown in the endproduct. The result for two masts... After this I had a little setback... There was an error in the kit manual and partslist. There was a wrong measurement within the partslist and the result of that was a missing piece of 4mm walnut wood roundbar I needed tot finish a yard. So I decided to step into the car and drove off to my nearest shop, approx 1 hour drive and found a walnut roundbar of 5mm. I took it with me home and figured out how to convert a 5mm roundbar into 4mm... The solution was a lot of elbow grease and sandpaper... I had to taper the ends as well, also flatten one side to connect with the other part... The green arrows show the places where the wrapping of some rope will be placed. And the result of that part (red arrows) The endresult of all the masts and yards! *Sails* So, the kit provided with "instant" or prefabricated sails. At first glance it's not to bad. After some inspection, it's not that good. I decided to use them because I'm on a deadline. I need this baby to be finished before we move to our new home. Sails can be changed later if I want to. Then the red crosses on the sails... I am not a big fan of those. There is a lot of speculation between scientist and scholars if there were red crosses on the SM or not. We know that there were different meanings of the red crosses. There was the Christian Orde and the Knights Templers Orde with both different interpretations of a red cross on the sails. So, different types of crosses, different meanings, different timeperiods, the debates over with and without.... I know for sure that I'm not a scientist and a scholar...so I go without red crosses on my sails. I will alter them a little by staining the cloth with some tea.. [b}*Rigging the ship - stays & shrouds*[/b] So, to hold the main mast sideways, stays & shrouds were used. I'll show you the start of this proces by rigging the first shrouds. To help myself with the part of connecting the upper deadeyes to the shrouds, I'll made a small jig. It's a simple one, just the end parts of some wooden toothpicks glued onto a piece of wood. This creates a fixed position of the deadeyes and help to align the upper deadeyes so they form a straight row. So the picture above shows the way I use my jig to hold the deadeyes in place, so I can easily connect the shroud to the deadeye. After this I made the lanyards to tighten the shrouds. With a temporary knot I let the shrouds be for 24 hours and bring it on tension after this and fixate the lanyards. This was it for this update....more rigging, knots, lanyards and shrouds to come, so stay with me! Until next time! See ya! Peter

Nice! This is a superb build. Wel done Cyprian. Set sail to new adventures! Do you have an idea what ship you want to build after this beauty?

Love the name for the cat! Take a long haired one and call him Chewbacca! nice progress on the Real as well....

Correct Sir. So, I have a book called "the art of rigging" and these techniques are all represented in the book. It's truly an art to do it the way the sailors did it those days. In many way's it is to complex or not necessary to do all the complex knots and rigging. For my model I choose to let it look similair, but in fact isn't. I use the rope included in the kit. Maybe give it another colour but that's about it. I rig the ship as it's shown into the kit manual and drawings, and I know it's not the way the ship should be rigged compared to a period ship of that time period. This depents truly on the model and personal reference ofcourse. It helps doh, to use some of these techniques to achieve a specific knot if you have no clue to do it in any way... Thanks for the URL Mark!

You can nick this idea as well... So, I wrapped the rope around the wood, but not tight. Both ends of the rope goes underneath the wrapping in opposite direction. Then I tighten the wrapping by pulling at the ends, it's a bit fiddeling doh to get it the way you want it. The end-parts is then cut off after a bit of glue and you're finished. I'll hope this makes a bit sense to you?