Gahm
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As far as I can tell there were different methods used and either of your choices would work fine.
I tried the four methods, which I found the most often, and finally selected the one I liked best for my situation.
I hope this helps.
Thomas
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What a beautiful place! I envy you 🙂
Thomas
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Your carronade looks very good! And I agree, the Syren rope makes a big difference in the overall appearance.
Thomas
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Thank you Dowmer and NovaStorm, and thanks for all the likes! Your feedback and your kind words are highly appreciated! And you are right, 'the devil is always in the details' 🙂, but this is also where the fun is.
Thomas
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Finally the changes to the stern of my Syren are finished. The gun ports are closed (img 1), the long guns are back in place and rigged (imgs 2 and 3), and the jolly boat is in its final position (imgs 4 – 8).
Thomas
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It always looks very impressive when the whole battery is in place for the first time! Your Syren got her teeth now 🙂
Thomas
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Simply beautiful, B.E.! You probably mentioned it somewhere, is the upper part of the hull made of cherry wood?
Thomas
- Martin W and Blue Ensign
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Your Winchelsea is a beauty! A pleasure to follow your build log!
Thomas
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You have done such a beautiful job with your Syren so far that you would be far better off using some good looking rope (see for example Chuck's Syren shop) instead of the kit provided nylon stuff. Most of the kit material I just use for prototyping 🙂 (and that even included the bass wood - for planking I bought new bass wood strips which I carefully selected for grain and coloration). In my opinion the main investment is not so much the money we have to spend now and again for good material but rather the time we invest in our models.
Thomas
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Wonderful job on those quarter galleries, Bob!
Thomas
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To hang the jolly boat from the rear davits a few steps are necessary: I need to get the rudder pendants out of the way, close the gun ports, hang the jolly boat from the davits and relocate/ re-tackle the long guns. As a first step of course a lot of destruction is necessary . . .
Img 1 shows the initial solution for the rudder pendant. With this solution on my Syren the rudder pendants and the tackles for the jolly boat would have touched each other where they crossed (img 2). To avoid this I used a slightly different solution for the rudder pendants, which can be found on a lot of models and follows in general the guidelines from Steel (img 3). This solution moves the crossing points of the rudder pendants to a part of the davits, which has a stronger slope and which allows to have the ropes cross each other without touching: the rudder chain is moved outward and hung from three hooks on each side of the rudder (imgs 4-5). Each rudder pendant is attached to a ring at the end of the rudder chain via a moused hook with a ring splice and a thimble (img 6). Imgs 7-8 show details of the implementation.
Thomas
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I can only repeat what others have already said before me: your craftsmanship and execution of these miniature details is just mind bugling!
Thomas
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Congratulations on your finished Alert! What a beautiful model! Unfortunately I missed your whole building phase - too many "distractions" caused by non-modeling issues. I hope I can do better with your next project 🙂
Thomas
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Nice, clean planking B.E.! A pleasure to watch!
Thomas