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@Keith Black Thanks for nice comment. Also many thanks for the LIKES. Another small stage of the standing rigg of La Créole has been completed: the ratlines of the mizzen mast are finished. The integration of the shrouded ladders and the signpost blocks is still missing. In the meantime, a small detail needs to be clarified once again. The side davits for the "Petit Canoes" of the corvette were made of iron and were lifted with a topping lift. These were shorn by single blocks on the mizzen mast. How these single blocks were attached to the eyes of the ring fitting on the mizzen mast still needs further clarification. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of the original model of the relevant area, where one can see more details. In the documents available to me I could not find anything meaningful about this either. In this respect a question to the experts here in the forum: How could the fixing of the single block/lead block and the continuation have looked like, e.g. as shown below? I would be very pleased if I could get answers or hints and suggestions. - I would be very grateful if you could send me your comments. See you soon ...

With the autumnal weather, the motivation to do less popular work comes back, even if they are supposed to have a meditative character, at least that's the opinion of some of my fellow modellers ...😁

@KORTES This is a beautiful showcase for a fantastic model ship. Congratulations for the completion.

@shipphotographer.com Lovely work, Olha.

Fantastic work !

@garyshipwright Hello, I thank you for the recognition. Of course I also thank you for the many LIKES. Both motivate and give me confidence to continue. Moques de conduits: Mizzenmast I almost forgot about them, the signposts blocks for the mizzen masts:

Continuation: Ratlines - Enfléchures With the lashing of the shroud ladder, the mizzen mast shrouds of the French corvette on the port side, including ratlines, could be completed. Now we continue with the ratlines for the starboard mizzen mast shrouds. See you soon ...

@Vladimir_Wairoa Hello, thank you very much for the kind words and thanks to all the others for the many LIKES. Continuation: Ratlines - Enfléchures It's been quite a while since I finished the ratlines for the main mast shrouds. Especially with monotonous work, it is good for motivation to deal with other details, such as the signpost blocks, in between and thus provide variety. Meanwhile I am again dealing with the ratlines, namely those of the mizzen mast shrouds, as you can see on the following pictures. The binding of the eye splice at the first and last shroud I have already described in detail in previous reports.

Today I once again felt the need to create a scene in the style of a historical postcard on the battery deck of the French corvette. The "Second Maitre" is from the book "La Marine" from 1843 after an illustration by Morel-Fatio.

Hello, Eberhard, I really have to try that.

@Dziadeczek Thanks for your appreciation. I have already thought about that. No matter how cleanly you handle the glue, there is always a residue and you might see that. My philosophy in model making is, only as much glue as absolutely necessary.

Hello, the first of these blocks was attached to the main shrouds. As an aid I used a wooden strip which was covered with a double-sided adhesive tape. Nevertheless it is a very difficult job to tie up these tiny pieces with Japanese silk yarn.

@Dowmer Sorry, I will use the correct expression in the future. Many thanks for the hint.

Hello, in the meantime I have made the 1 and 2-disc blocks, the special kind. So now a total of 30 pieces of this special block type are finished. As a reminder: it is a kind of guiding block which was fixed in the shrouds. In French these blocks are called "Moques de conduits". A kind of fairleads, but with discs.

Hi, Gary, thank you for your interest in my work. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you if the Atlas du Génie Maritime has been published as a book.

@Ponto ".. 1.7 mm x .5mm sheaves???.....that is simply astonishing. How in the world is one even able to apply the groove to the perimeter of the sheave?" Excuse me, unfortunately I did not see your question and therefore did not answer it. But in the meantime I have posted a series of pictures for the production of these blocks. Maybe you have already seen them. The groove is simply made with a needle file.

@mbp521 @mugje @rtropp Hello, thank you very much for your positive comments. And thank you all for the many LIKES. That motivates me a lot. "Great work. I'm going to give it a try. Can you tell me where you got the patterns for the blocks?" Hello, Richard, for this special type of block, which is only attached to the shrouds, there are corresponding drawings in the Atlas du Génie Maritime on plate no. 212. Do you know the Atlas du Génie Maritime ? This is a collection of technical construction drawings of the French Navy from the 19th century. Here the corresponding plate no. 212:

Hi, thanks for your nice comments. And to all the others also a thank you for the many Likes. Today I show step by step how I made these blocks. The pictures speak for themselves.

Hello, at the 3rd attempt I made a real brass disc with a diameter of 1.7 mm and a thickness of 0.5 mm and inserted it into the block. Compared to the imitated disks, the difference is only marginal and does not justify the additional effort. I will probably make the "fake block".

Hello, here is now a second attempt for this block type. I imitated the discs by leaving wood material in the middle.

@Hubac's Historian Thanks for the nice comment !

Hello, here I show the first attempt at making this block type. The second picture shows the block attached to a shroud. This is my experimental device that I have already used for the ratlines.

@Dowmer Many thanks for this interresting information.

Moques de conduits At the moment I'm still securing the taljereeps for the cross shrouds, so that I can continue with the installation of the ratlines afterwards. In the meantime, I am doing some interesting research on a detail that I have only seen in this form on La Créole so far. This is a kind of guiding block called "Moques de conduits". For the first time I noticed these blocks, which are attached to the inside of the shrouds, on pictures of the Paris model. Up to now little noticed, but now I have to deal with them. Source: Musée de la Marine Paris - La Crèole In the Atlas du Génie Maritime on plate no. 212 (blocks and other rigging accessories) I could find exactly the kind of shroud blocks shown on the pictures of the Paris model, as shown on the next drawing on the right. To the left of it I have also added a block with 3 discs. Source: Atlas du Génie Maritime on plate no. 212 According to the drawing, these blocks have the following dimensions in 1:48 scale: 1 - slice b= 2,4 mm to t=2,8 mm 2 - slice w= 3.2 mm to t=2.9 mm 3 - sliced b= 4.3 mm to t=3.0 mm, and each 1.8 mm thick. From the illustration in the atlas I was able to find out the French name for this kind of blocks. Unfortunately I was not able to find out the exact name of this block. Some time ago I described the production of guide blocks, which were placed inside in the area of the waterway. On the next picture from the monograph you can see very well that these guide blocks are in connection with the moques de conduits attached to the shrouds. Source: Musée de la Marine Paris - La Crèole According to this, it can be assumed that a total of 28 of these "signpost blocks" (conceivable designation) are to be produced, depending on the one with 1, 2 or 3 discs. I would be very happy if I could find out more about this kind of blocks. Maybe one of you has some information about this. See you soon ... Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

@Dziadeczek Hello, Thomas, thank you in advance for your compliments on the rope. I have also made many ropes from linen yarn. Colouring was still an issue then. The colouring experiments with wood stain were really promising. Therefore I would take wood stain from the company CLOU for example. See the picture below. By the way, Irish linen yarn from Barbour is said to be one of the best. In the end I decided to use silk yarn, which I make my ropes for the corvette. I'm very pleased with it. The results are quite impressive, aren't they? The silk yarns are available in many colors. Therefore, there is no need to colour he ropes.