ancre La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette

[Keith Black]

2 hours ago, druxey said:

I've rigged from back to front, bottom to top

 Same here because there's less chance of creating slack in the lines going from stern to bow, IMHO.  

[giampieroricci]

hello Johann!
Your superb work is a masterful benchmark for model rigging! Exemplary work! Simply fantastic!

[Mic_Nao]

A perfect mastery of the greement, bravo!

 

 

[jdbondy]

And don't forget about rigging from inside to out...

[archjofo]

Hello colleagues,

Thank you in advance for your kind feedback.

 

When I started the final rigging, I was a bit too optimistic...😁

 

Making more blocks for tackles for truss pendants, redirecting the braces, bowlines, etc.

Before I take the model out of the dust cover as announced and start the final rigging, I thought that it would be more clever to make the missing blocks so that I can then make the craft room dust-free.

This required a lot of research to get some clarity about various design details.
In particular, it was about making the tackles for the truss pendants of the lower yards. The truss pendants themselves are already attached to the lower yards. Later, when attaching the lower yards, the ends of the truss pendants have to be guided through the sheaves on the trestle trees. Then thimbles have to be tied into the ends, to which the rope tackles can then be hooked. This drawing from the Atlas de Génie Maritime illustrates the principle.

 

Source: Extract from the Atlas du Génie Maritime Pl. 23

 

 

These tackles and other blocks with corresponding strops and thimbles, depending on the use, can be seen in the following picture.

Some time ago I also made a series of guide blocks, as shown below, which are hooked into the area of the belaying pin rails.

 

Accordingly, there shouldn't be too many blocks missing now. So I will now look through the rigging again using the monograph in conjunction with the pictures of the original model that I have available in order to capture as many blocks as possible. The tackles topsail halyards spring to mind and there are certainly still some deflection and guide blocks missing from the upper rigging.

 

With regard to the final rigging, I am wondering how the standing parts of the braces are correctly attached to the stays. There is certainly a specific way of attaching them (knots, banding, etc.). Unfortunately, I have not been able to find anything about this so far, neither in the specialist literature nor on the Internet.

 

I would therefore be very grateful if you could give me some advice.

To be continued...

 

Edited September 12 by archjofo

[druxey]

Sometimes one just has to go with the logical run of lines.