Silkspan

[Kevin Kenny]

Has anyone used silkspan to make sails.?

[Blue Ensign]

I have used Modelspan which is the same thing, excellent stuff particularly at smaller scales, also good for flags and ensigns.

I used it on my 1:150 French Seventy-0four build.

 

B.E.

[druxey]

See the sail supplement booklet to the Swan Class series, Volume IV.

[hollowneck]

I used silkspan (actually the "modelspan" material from Bluejacket, Inc.) for my sails on my HMS Swan diorama model. It worked well but I did combine it with 20 lb. bond paper in an original lamination technique to make set sails look more realistic...

[wefalck]

Have used it since the late 1970s. Today, I am suspending it in a frame and soak it with acrylic paint. From this panels are cut and stuck together with PVA glue, likewise the doublings etc. If required, single panels can be given a slightly different colour to indicate repairs. Boltropes are stuck on with PVA glue.

[tasmanian]

Hollowneck  beautifull work 

[hollowneck]

Thanks Tasmanian! When I decided to build a Swan Class sloop I also decided to make realistic set sails and...convincing H2o.

HMS Swan is now berthed in my dining room, having chased a few Yankee privateers away from the Maine coast.

 

This a kit model, extensively modified; the basic POB lines of the skeleton (keelformer, bulkheads) were excellent. Ditto all of the plans (17 sheets I recall). The kit is the HMS Pegasus from Victory Models (Amati's "high end"). It comes with extensive photo etch components including tiered decorations. I initially thought I was going to paint all the frieze work (along the bulwarks), but later decided that it looked better to turn the P/E elements into "carved wood" in order to match the stern and stem. All hull planking and much of the scratched top hamper is Swiss Pear that replaced the kit's wood.

 

This photo you can see how I started the water base in the background below (layered 1" solid insulation foam, carved "swells")