Sovereign of the Seas by 72Nova - Airfix - PLASTIC

[Ian_Grant]

Michael, it's nearly beyond belief, at this scale. As always, amazed by your fine work (and your eyesight!).

[72Nova]

Thank you so much Ian, means a lot coming from a long-time follower. Frequent breaks are mandatory working at this scale. The tackles are coming along pretty good, using 2.5mm double blocks on the runners that are led through an eye bolt and tied to a dead eye on the channels and 2.5mm single blocks hooked to eye bolts on the deck.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

The fore stay is finally in place, the mouse is made up using 1/8" rod pared down to the appropriate size, visually anyways, this was done on the drill bit in the pin vase, the lanyard is rigged but not yet tied off, I'll let it sit for a few days before that, also the lower tackles are just about complete, thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[fmodajr]

Hi Michael,

 

I believe Ian said it all a couple of posts back (Saturday).

Amazing work at this scale. beautiful!

 

Frank

 

[72Nova]

Thank you, Frank, nice to hear from you. I ended up redoing the knighthead for the main lower tie to a four sheave, I used .4mm line for the ties and top rope and .2mm for the fall, the rams head measures approximately 4.5mm, 30" at scale, also I needed to install the Mizen lower stay collar and fabricate a 1.70mm 5-hole dead eye, 9.75" at scale to check the clearance at the railing, next Ill fabricate the parral before finally gluing in the lower main mast. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

[kirill4]

Good day Michael!

She is getting more beautiful and beautiful and buytiful  with each stage completed , Great Job You made !

I like it very much!

All The Best!

Kirill

[72Nova]

Glad you like it thus far Kirill, good to hear from you. A few different phases going on in this update, glued in the main lower mast, turned a new main lower course yard, this measures out at 187.7mm, 103'-6" at scale, fabricated the parrel, the pendants of tackle are .40mm line served with 3mm single blocks and the falls are taken to the main deck close to the bulwarks using 2.5mm double and single blocks and finally rigged up the parrel rope and tackle using a 2mm double and single block, that's it for this retina straining update and thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

The main pendant tackles are completed and started rigging the fore lanyards, trying to rig these correctly using a throat seizing is fiddly to say the least, I think they look okay. I'll only do a few per side before moving on to the main shrouds so I can then set the lower main stay in place before finishing up the fore lanyards. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

I finished up the lower main shrouds to the point of getting them around the mast head so I could rig the lower main stay and lanyard, up next I'll be working on stepping the lower mizen mast in place and the mizen stay before completing the lower shrouds. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

I made up the Lateen yard and crossjack, as with the fore and main courses the Mizen course will use the tie in conjunction with the jeer, the block is 3mm and just a bit under scale and the crossjack sling block is 2.5mm, again slightly under scale. This is all in the mockup stage and still a ton of work left to do before permanently attaching the yards to the lower mast prior to gluing it in place.

 

Michael D.

 

  

[72Nova]

Small update regarding the parrel, I'm pretty happy with the first attempt and will keep it, it will be glued to the mast once it's painted, thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

I stropped the necessary blocks on the crossjack, the topsail sheet blocks are 2.5mm...19" at scale, lift blocks are 1.5mm and the mizen course bowline block are 2mm,16" at scale. Still contemplating if I want to rig the peak brails instead of the martnets, this will date it at around 1640 but yet Payne shows them, we shall see and thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

About halfway done with the Mizen shrouds, using .25mm shroud laid rope for these along with the pendants, for the tackle I'm using 2mm single blocks with the lower one hooked to an eye bolt on the side of the hull, kind of hard to see given the scale and the other end is led trough an eye bolt on the deck and tied to the railing using 50wt thread, lanyards are 100wt thread and the dead eyes measure out at around 1.75mm, things are pretty tight in this area but looking acceptable and thanks for looking, Cheers!

 

Michael D.

 

[72Nova]

I finally completed the lower stays, threading the 5-hole dead eyes for the Mizen stay was quite tricky even with the shrouds out of the way but I was able to get it eventually in the tight space. The Main and Mizen lower shrouds are also completed with the fore shrouds still left to complete, then on to the topmasts. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and look, very much appreciated as always.

 

Michael D.

 

 

[72Nova]

The lower shrouds are completed, and the lanyards are rigged but not yet tied, using sculpey clay I made up the tack fairlead, finished up the entry port by adding a step/landing. Thanks for looking.

 

Michael D.