Gahm

You did an excellent job on your rudder! It looks great!

Thomas

This was a wonderful build log to follow with excellent results! Congratulations Hakan! I am looking forward to your next project.

Thomas

I love your deck planking - very clean and precise. Well done!

Thomas

Beautiful planking job!

Thomas

Fantastic work, Mike! She is a master piece!

Thomas

Patrick, that is a real nice precision job! It looks beautiful!

Thomas

Thank you, Jason and Patrick! Next time I will try to use images with a higher resolution 🙂

Thomas

Beautiful built, BE! And your progress is amazing . . . 

Thomas

Wow! I actually have difficulties to really imagine the size of this rifle rack.

Thomas 

These are really nice looking gudgeons! 

Thomas

Patrick, there is really nothing special I do for serving with silk thread. If you don't fix the serving at the ends it will unravel. However, a little CA glue or if you know the length of your served rope feeding the silk thread through the rope at the ends will easily do the job.

Thomas

This is really nice work, BE! The cover idea makes a big difference.

Thomas

Bob and Harshil, thank you for your kind comments! And thanks for all the likes! 

Harshil, for seizing the blocks I use served rope. I serve the rope with a 100wt silk thread which leads to a very smooth surface. I did this the first time when rigging the carronades and liked the look of it 🙂

Thomas

A little update . . . I made the travelers (imgs 1 to 3). The leather lining was simulated with a layer of silkspan painted with leather paint. The jibboom was lashed to the bowsprit (img 4), the flying jibboom was mounted and the various blocks added. Imgs 5 to 8 show the blocks and the simulated round seizing. Img 9 presents the current state of the bowsprit assembly.

Thomas

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I finally moved into rope making, too, using Chuck's recipe and rope Rocket. After a little experimentation the results turned out very satisfactory. Between our dining table and a little Black& Decker work bench I can easily make ropes of about 25' (see picture). 

Although it was much easier to just buy the finished high quality ropes form Chuck 😊

Thomas

Thank you, this formula is most helpful!

Thomas

Superb work! And your photography is amazing . . . on some of those images it is really difficult to tell whether you are looking at the real ship or a model 🙂

Thomas

Wonderful work! It is a delight to follow your build log!

Thomas

My next model will be a POF model. It would be wonderful to have some good choices! But first I need to get my Syren finished 😉

Thomas

Your planking looks really good!

Thomas

Beautiful work! In my opinion a nicely executed wooden ship's wheel makes a big difference to a ship model.

Thomas 

What a wonderful model!

Thomas

Wonderful work, Mike! Your oven looks like you could start preparing dinner on it right away 🙂

Thomas

I love your galleries! They are so much better than the kit provided stuff!

Thomas

Super!

Thomas