HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans

[GLakie]

Some really nice rigging work Danny! She's starting to get a little crowded up there now. 

 

Cheers 

[Dan Vadas]

Topmast Ratlines

 

Nothing real different here, just more ratlines. At this stage I only have most of the ratlines on the main topmast left to do.

 

Here are the foremast ones :

 

 

And the mizzen topmast :

 

 

  Danny

[gjdale]

Nice to see an update Danny. Your work is as meticulous as always.

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Danny

Thanks for the updates, like always your work has pushed through the OMG mark. Your blocks are soooo tiny, yet flawless in their details.

 

Greg

Edited February 2, 2015 by Greg the peg leg sailor

[dgbot]

Okay Danny where do you keep the trained spiders who are doing that rigging. I would have gone bonkers by now. Great job.

David B

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for looking in again John, Grant, Greg and David .

 

Topgallant Shrouds and Stays

 

The Topgallant Stays are the first lines fitted, unlike on the lower masts where the shrouds and backstays are fitted first. I decided on this arrangement after reading Lees who quotes Steel on the "Order of Dressing". TFFM has the stays fitted as per the lower masts.

 

EDIT - see a few posts below. This could be wrong   .

 

The Stays and Shrouds are all served around the mast and for a few feet below. The forward stay may have been served for it's full length, but at this size of shroud (0.2mm) the serving would have looked too large so I've omitted that.

 

 

The running end of the backstays end in deadeyes fitted to the aft end of the channels on the Main mast, and on the aft deadeyes on the stools for the Mizzen and Fore masts :

 

 

The running end of the Stays on the Main and Mizzen masts lead through a block stropped around the lower mast heads and are tied to the strop of the topmast lead blocks :

 

 

An overall view of the Main Topgallant Stays and Shrouds :

 

 

The Topgallant Futtock Shrouds are fitted in similar fashion to the topmast futtocks :

 

 

  Danny

[BANYAN]

Once you get going on the rigging there is no stopping you Danny - looking very good.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you Pat.

 

Jibboom Crupper

 

The aft end of the Jibboom is held fast by the Crupper, a similar arrangement to the Gammoning on the Bowsprit :

 

 

Jib Traveller

 

This is a tricky piece of "iron" work. The Traveller holds the Jib Outhaul and the running end of the Jib Stay. It's purpose is to allow the Jib sail to be adjusted or moved along the jibboom.

 

It consists of a ring which encircles the boom, a shackle to which will be attached the outhaul and the stay, and a hook which holds the tack of the jib (the forward corner).

 

I made the shackle and hook first, silver soldering the eyes. Then I bent the ring and slipped the shackle and hook through it, closed up the ring and finally silver soldered it closed. These pics show the assembly before cleaning up and blackening :

 

 

 

And the traveller on the jibboom :

 

 

  Danny

[Jim Lad]

Always a pleasure to see your rigging, Danny.

 

John

[druxey]

With all due respect to Lees and yourself, Dan; Steel (Rigging and Seamanship, Volume I, page 190) gives the sequence of rigging for topgallant masts as shrouds, standing backstay, then stay. 

Great job on the jib traveller!

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you John and Druxey.

 

Hmm .... it's not the first time I've found a mistake in Lees. I wonder what his specific source for changing the Order of Dressing for the Topgallant masts was?

 

BTW - I'm not about to change them now .

 

  Danny

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Really wonderful as allways. Each time I read in your wonderful log I am impressed.

 

Please can you give me the dimensions of your fully rigged model (Length over all and Height).

Edited February 9, 2015 by AnobiumPunctatum

[cog]

You've done some wounderful work on that traveller

[EdT]

Lovely work on that traveler, Dan.

 

Ed

[Maury S]

Spectacular metal work!

Maury

[Alex M]

Incredible rigging, and traveler too, Dan! Lovely work!

 

Alex

[Stuntflyer]

I had to pull myself away from staring at that traveler Dan. I love the rigging too. Just great!

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Danny

Your rigging is top notched. Like everything you do, coming second is not in you vocabulary!

Cheers

Greg

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for the comments Christian, Carl, Ed, Maury, Alex, Mike and Greg. Much appreciated as always.

 

Please can you give me the dimensions of your fully rigged model (Length over all and Height).

 

 

Christian - 1050 long (from tip of Bowsprit to tip of Driver Boom) x 740 high x 355 wide.

 

Jib Net

 

This is one of the fiddliest parts to make on the whole ship. It took me 2 1/2 days.

 

It starts by making the two spreaders from English Box. Then the two Horses were threaded through the holes in each end of the spreaders and an eye seized into the inboard end of each horse :

 

 

 

To tie the netting together I constructed a simple Jig :

 

 

Five double lengths of the netting were hitched around one spreader :

 

 

Then the tedious work of tying together every 2nd pair of the longitudinal netting began. The first couple of rows didn't turn out too well under magnification, but look OK to the eye :

 

 

Two days later (I had to wait for the glue to dry on the seizings before continuing on the next row) the second spreader was hitched to the free end :

 

 

 

The net fitted to the bowsprit. The forward ends of the horses attach to the eyebolts in the sides of the cap :

 

 

 

The aft ends of the horses are attached via lanyards to an eyebolt in each knighthead :

 

 

 Danny

[Jim Lad]

Beautiful work (as usual), Danny!

 

John

[NenadM]

What a briliant educational log!

 

Thank you

[GLakie]

Nice Danny! 

[egkb]

Jeeez Danny.. that is seriously jaw droppingly good !

 

Eamonn

 

My build is now going in the bin ..

[druxey]

That netting is s serious bit of business, isn't it? Well done!

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you again John, Nenad, George, Druxey and Eamonn.

 

My build is now going in the bin .. 

 

 

Eamonn, I hope you're kidding .

 

Jibboom Horses

 

The jibboom horses are the equivalent to the Footropes on the other yards. They are knotted every 2 scale feet, which takes a bit of careful doing to get them spaced evenly. There is a small eye in the forward end which loops back on itself and then around the forward end of the boom :

 

 

 

The aft ends are passed around the boom aft of the cap and have two seizings to fix them :

 

 

To get the horses to hang naturally I dampened them and attached a couple of clamps about 1/3 of the way in from each end until they dried:

 

 

 Danny

[Mirabell61]

First class work Danny

 

Nils

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

OMG Danny, what else can I say, is there NO ends to your outstanding details? The jib net is amazing! I was going to use black square lace on my model. ....Dame you, you are toooooo good! You have made us all think twice about what details we should put into our ships.

GREAT WORK, keep them coming please.

Cheers

Greg

[dgbot]

Danny you need to take a break and have a couple of carafes of fine brandy.  If you do not your nerves are going to go wild.  God job.

David B

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Thank you, Dan. That helps me a lot

[allanyed]

Well done once again Danny.  I see myself referring to your log down the road as you have provided quite a few detailed "how-to" instructions including the netting technique. 

 

Allan