giampieroricci

I built a manual cable bundling machine from recycled materials, which is also useful for making bundled straps for blocks in a very simple way.

Ingenious!!!!

I continue with the blocks:

Hi Jack!

Congratulations on the wonderful project you are carrying out!

I would like to know if in the future it will be possible to buy the drawings of this wonderful model, I would like to try to build it!

3 hours ago, druxey said:

Very nice sheaved and pinned blocks, Giampiero! What specie of wood are you using?

Thank you very much, David!

I'm using ebony and brasilian boxwood

A few small accessories:

Hi Alessio!

I have been following your model for a long time! I'm happy to find you here again!

I didn't know how to make the draught marks on the bow; I had the idea of using old lead alloy printing type that I had used to cast the guns. This is the result, still to be finished.

Tops:

I went a little further with the masts:

I started preparing the mast

Last elements before starting with the masting: the nets of the gangways.

I used a cardboard holder of a suitable size, threading very thin cotton thread diagonally between the cuts and then using another thread in the opposite direction by tying knots in it

Great work!!!

fantastic!!!

What an incredible job you are doing, Johann! Your model should be taken as an example for all those who want to equip their own!

Absolute perfection!!!

I finished the figurehead:

11 hours ago, tmj said:

Homemade Chisels?

yes, most of them!

First wing fixed:

The second wing:

first wing:

After a break, I started to prepare and set up the figurehead; everything is still provisional, I don't like it very much, I had to remove some details to make room for the bowsprit, but I'm going ahead and I hope it will be more presentable.

A modeller friend rightly pointed out to me that there is an official drawing of the time for this ship. I looked everywhere except where I should have looked!
Change of plan:

I started to set the figurehead. I looked for an image that would fit and among many, I chose this one, to be adapted in the back to fit into the spur. The challenge is very difficult, I don't know what will come out of it, I hope to achieve something acceptable

Main studding sail booms:

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