Granado by rafine - FINISHED - Caldercraft - 1:64

[Mirabell61]

Bob,

Granados rigging is looking better every time, nice neat and tidy work as usual out of your shipyard  

 

Nils

[albert]

Very nice.

[Martin W]

Glad to hear your horde has left you free to pursue the more important matters -- working on your fine Granado!!

 

Cheers,

 

Martin

[rafine]

Thanks so much Nils, Albert, Martin and the "likes".

 

Martin, as much as I love having them here, you're right on.  

 

Bob

[HIPEXEC]

Nice neat work!

[rafine]

Thanks so much Rich and the "likes".

 

Good to hear from you Rich. It's been a while since we've seen anything from you. Hope all is well.

 

Bob

[jwvolz]

Looking good Bob. 

 

As quickly as you are progressing, I have to ask...what's next? 

[rafine]

Thanks so much Joe. I'm still a few months from completion and really don't know what's next. What I do know is that I'm 77 with eyes and hands getting more problematic with time. My criteria now are for larger scale models of smaller ships. I'm not looking for projects that would take years to complete (unless perhaps Amati comes out with Chris Watton's new Prince  ).

 

Bob

[Landlubber Mike]

Bob, your rigging is pristine.  Truly awe inspiring.  I might have to send you a few of my builds to rig

 

If you're looking for larger scale models of smaller ships, if you like the look of the Dutch ships from the 17th century, there are some really good subjects/plans in this book from Seawatch:

 

https://www.seawatchbooks.com/ItemDisplay.php?sku=114003

 

 

I also recently picked up from a fellow MSW member Ab Hovings "Ships of Abel Tasman" which has two ships from that era, with great plans and history:

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=iedDTFBr8GwC&pg=PA70&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

I have a bunch of projects on my workbench at the moment, but thinking ahead, and thinking about working on smaller models, these ships, to me at least, make for very interesting models.

[Blue Ensign]

It's all looking very shipshape and Bristol fashion Bob, very nice work.

 

I can so relate to your thoughts about future models, I have already decided that Pegasus will be my last square rigger, too testing on my eyes.

 

B.E.

[rafine]

Thanks so much Mike and B.E. for the generous comments.

 

Funny you should mention Dutch ships Mike. I was just thinking about them, but thinking more about kits than a scratch.

 

B.E., nowadays I sometimes feel like an old athlete who's lost his young skills, but learned to get by with experience and tricks. 

 

Bob

[HIPEXEC]

Bob

I'm finishing up my HMS Surprise which was banned from MSW? (I didn't know it was a banned Chinese knock off when I bought it). The next build will not be banned. I miss all you guys.

Your work is magnificent.

Rich

[Gahm]

Bob, your Granado is looking wonderful! I need to pay close attention to your bag of tricks as they lead to beautiful results  

 

Thomas 

[cookster]

Amazing Bob!  I always enjoy seeing your rigging, it's so neat and tidy.  

[rafine]

Thanks so much Thomas and Wes for the kind words. Always appreciated.

 

Bob

[popeye the sailor]

very nice Bob.........glad to hear your not going to stop modeling.   it would be a sad waste of talent   schooners may be something you'd be interested in. 

[rafine]

Thanks so much Denis. No way that I'm going to stop modeling. I may just need to rethink what I'm going build -- or, then again, maybe not  . We'll see. 

 

Bob

[alde]

Bob, whatever you build is going to be a pleasure to see come together.

[rafine]

Thanks for the vote of confidence Al.

 

Bob

[rafine]

I mounted the main topmast, which I had made previously in the same manner as the other masts, and then began to add it's rigging. I did the shrouds, the backstays and then put the breast backstay and running backstay in place at the masthead before realizing that I could not complete them without doing the ratlines on both the lower and topmast shrouds.Thus ended my procrastination on doing the ratlines.

 

The good news is that like riding a bike, you don't forget how to tie clove hitches. The knack for doing it comes back very quickly. The bad news, of course, is that there are just so many of them to do. I believe that in the dictionary next to the word "tedium", there is a picture of a modeler tying clove hitches for ratlines. In any event, I've now gotten through the ratlines on the starboard main lower and topmast shrouds including the topmast futtock shrouds. Next, it is on to do the same on the port side.

 

Bob

[Martin W]

Ha Bob!  Yes, that tedium of endless clove hitching is what gives you the body memory of how to tie them.  It never goes away, though somehow the recollection of the tedium seems to pass just a bit.

 

Fine work as always.

 

Martin

[Blue Ensign]

Nice job Bob, no evidence of the dreaded inward pull on the aft 'rattled' shroud.  

 

B.E.

[popeye the sailor]

look'in cool bob.......I'm gonna have to learn to clove hitch.   guilty of tying the regular knot.  great job!

[Rustyj]

Great work Bob. Though tedious the end result makes it well worth it.  

[rafine]

Thanks so much Dirk, Martin, B.E., Denis, Rusty and the "likes". This is an area where encouragement is especially appreciated.

 

B.E., glad to hear you can't see any. At some point, I get too cross eyed to even tell. 

 

Bob

[HIPEXEC]

Bob

Here's where I've been for the last 20 months.  Now 'm trying to figure out what to build next.

Keep up the great work. You are my goal.

 

[Elijah]

Very nice and neat rigging as usual, Bob! I like it!

[KenW]

Great work Bob.  I really like how those crows feet stand out within all that rigging.

All I can say is, "WOW!"

Cheers.

[rafine]

Thanks so much Rich, Elijah, Ken and the "likes".

 

Nice work Rich. It's too bad we weren't able to follow along.

 

Bob

[donrobinson]

Real nice work Bob. I think I need to get my eyes checked, the rigging looks almost blue in some of the pics.