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If you are looking for material for sails this address may be the solution for your you: Whaleys (Bradford) located at Harris Court, Great Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 4EQ in England. E-mailaddress: info@whaleysltd.co.uk.

For my purposes the best material to work with appeared to be 'voile cotton', but also 'Navara Fine Lawn White' works splendidly for my 1/77 scale. For the bigger scales there is also 'Poplin cotton shirting neroli white'. Prices are here.

 

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The material can very well be treated with starch and dried as wanted with a hair-dryer:

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Good luck,

Ab

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Those sails look fantastic. I appreciate this advice, doing experiments to find the 'right stuff' is not my favorite use of time.

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STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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Thank you for the address.

These sails are really beautiful.

Interested in knowing your work technique. 😉

Jean-Paul

 

'You are not carving a bear with a chain saw here folks',

Chuck Passaro, ´Queen Anne Style Barge´ manual of instructions

 

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  • Santa Maria boat - Korabel (Ukraine) - 1:24
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Thank you 😊 I will read your build log.

Jean-Paul

 

'You are not carving a bear with a chain saw here folks',

Chuck Passaro, ´Queen Anne Style Barge´ manual of instructions

 

Current builds :

 

Finished build :

 

Next on list :

  • Santa Maria boat - Korabel (Ukraine) - 1:24
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Thank you for these informations.

However, concerning cloth's choosing, I  have difficulty in believing that XIX ship's builder selected transparent sail's fabrics.

Reasons are that salt atmosphere is not favourable for any materials and that winds could be very strong.

 

Mike

 

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