Red Jacket by MrBlueJacket - FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - Scale 1/8" = 1' (1:96)

[Beef Wellington]

Very nice details.  Would you mind sharing your technique for making the rope coils that have been mounted.  Always seems to be lots of discussion on the 'right' way to do these to keep them workable, but the main sense I see from looking at older pictures is that the pin rails just look like a heap of rope coils, very similar to how you have represented them. 

[MrBlueJacket]

Here's all the blocks prepped to get tied to the yards.

[MrBlueJacket]

3 hours ago, Beef Wellington said:

Very nice details.  Would you mind sharing you technique the rope coils that have been mounted.  Always seems to be lots of discussion on the 'right' way to do these to keep them workable, but the main sense I set from looking at older pictures is that the pin rails just look like a heap of rope coils, very similar to how you have represented them. 

 

When I do the rigging on these yards, I will document my technique. Of course, it is only one of many ways to do it.

 

Nic

[Keithbrad80]

7 minutes ago, MrBlueJacket said:

 

When I do the rigging on these yards, I will document my technique. Of course, it is only one of many ways to do it.

 

Nic

I was curious as well so thank you!

 

Bradley

[MrBlueJacket]

All those blocks now added to the yards, and they are now hung on the masts. All askew until I add the lifts this weekend. And the halyards, and the sheet sand clews.

 

[Elijah]

Very fine craftsmanship Nic, she looks immaculate. 

[MrBlueJacket]

13 hours ago, Elijah said:

Very fine craftsmanship Nic, she looks immaculate. 

 

Thank you.

[MrBlueJacket]

Last night I made a few rope coils. Here's how to do it. First, the equipment - a strip of wood with a groove and two pins, two reversed clothspins, one of which has a hole in it, and of course the thread.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Clasmp the end of the thread with the clothespin on the right side of the picture. Then put three wraps of thread aroiund the pins, and clamps the left pin with the clohespin with the hole in it.

[MrBlueJacket]

Then slide the loose thread end through the groove and knot it in the middle of the coil. Use a tiny drop of CA to secure the knot. Then slip the coil off the jig, spread out the upper end a little.

[MrBlueJacket]

Trim the ends, apply a spot of fabric cement to the back of the upper loop, and install. Very convincing look.

[Beef Wellington]

Looks great Nic, will definitely try that, thanks for sharing!

[MrBlueJacket]

Status update:

 

Rigging the sheet and clew lines takes a lot of time, but there's not much to look at. Next up are the Royal yards.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

So here's the start of the royal yards. from dowel to tapered to yardarm.

 

 

And now all 3 roughed out, ready for saddles, jackstays, footropes, etc.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Over the weekend I was able to finish the royal yards, they are ready to mount. Also worked on the sky yards as well.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Royal yards hanging by their halyards.

[MrBlueJacket]

Now all the sky yards have their halyards and lifts. Next comes 6 sheets and 6 clew lines. Then its on to the braces. The end is in sight.

Edited November 25, 2020 by MrBlueJacket
changed Royal to Sky

[MrBlueJacket]

So here's the port fore lower brace. You can see braces on the starboard side, too. There will be 30 of them altogether.

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by MrBlueJacket

[MrBlueJacket]

So tonight I finished all the fore mast braces. 10 down, 20 to go......

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Here's a closeup of the lower yard pendant block

 

[MrBlueJacket]

Getting so close to the end, so I started working on the lifeboats. Here's the pieces, all painted.The hull is white on the outside, gray inside, with black gunwales. Everything but the hulls are photo etched.

[MrBlueJacket]

And the floorboards installed.

[MrBlueJacket]

Now the boats are complete.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

So I have finished the braces on the fore and main masts. Looking back on the rigging diagram, I realized I had forgot to do the staysail rigging before the braces. Now I have to weave through the braces, because the staysail rigging hangs on the stays, which of course are in the middle. Here's a picture of the first one, only 5 more to go.

 

*sigh*

Edited December 15, 2020 by MrBlueJacket

[MrBlueJacket]

OK, staysail rigging done, back to braces. At this point, all that's left are the top 3 pairs on the mizzen.

[MrBlueJacket]

I decided I'm tired of weaving through the rigging, so I diverted to the Jib staysail halyards and downhauls, which are out in the open. Call it a mental break....

[MrBlueJacket]

DISASTER!

 

While using a battery Dremel to clear a hole, it accidentally caught one of the brace lines, ripping it asunder

 

 

And here's the broken line and block that was ripped off

 

[MrBlueJacket]

The problem is that the other end of the line is glued to a belaying pin and rope coil. So I had to find an inconspicuous spot to splice the new line to the remains of the old.

 

[MrBlueJacket]

And now i can say all the braces are done!

 

[gak1965]

On 1/19/2021 at 12:12 PM, MrBlueJacket said:

DISASTER!

 

While using a battery Dremel to clear a hole, it accidentally caught one of the brace lines, ripping it asunder

 

 

 

And here's the broken line and block that was ripped off

 

 

My sympathies. I did something similar on my Niagara, but it broke the jibboom and dolphin striker. Took a bit of doing to untangle all the lines and splice it back together.