HMS Harpy 1796 by Glenn-UK – Vanguard Models - 1:64 scale

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Before moving on to making and adding the boomkins I decided I should add both the jibboom and flying jibboom so the fore topsail and fore topgallant stays could be rigged.

 

The first two photos show the jibboom and flying jibboom in place.

The dolphin striker was also added. As you will note, when looking at the photo, I made an error with where the fore topsail sail stay should be reeved. I used the upper hole rather than the middle hole. I only realised this error after I had added the thimble to the stay end. I concluded that I could accept this mistake rather than running in a new stay.

Both stays are belayed using thimbles, with the reciprocal thimbles for each stay hooked to eyebolts on the bow, as can be seen in the next photo.

The next photo shows the foremast with the all the various mast stays in place.

The final photo of this post shows the current status of the Harpy rigging.

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The two boomkins have now been added. It was a simple task to cut and shape two lengths of 3mm dowel as per the plan sheet. Once painted they were glued in place. The shroud were added along with the 5mm single blocks.

The boomkin shrouds were added, as shown below. Can you spot the error I made?

The next photo shows the error. The green arrow shows what I did right. The three red arrows shows where the various shrouds should have been placed. Thankfully, as far as I am concerned, it does not matter as no one will notice this once the model has been completed.

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I spent a bit of time yesterday belying the rigging that had been run in, some of which can be seen in the first three first photos below.

With the jibboom and flying jibboom added their respective shroud rigging were next to be added. I opted to use hooks to secure these blocks to the bow for ease of installation, as can be seen in the two photo below, noting the plan sheet shows these blocks should be seized directly to the eyebolts. The free ends of the inter-block rigging will be belayed to pins located on the bow inner bulwark belay pin racks.

The shrouds are also feed through eyelets located on the spritsail yard before being secured to the ends of the jibboom and flying jibboom.

 

 

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This post details the method I have used to rig the topsail sail tyes.

 

As can be seen in the first two photos below the rigging is fed through a double block on the topsail yard and is the reeved through a single block located on the topsail platform. The rigging is then belayed to the deck via two 5mm single blocks.

Starting with the upper 5mm single block the tye thread is held in place as the block seizing is added as shown by the red arrow in the photo below.

The lower thread is then added, held in place with a reef knot.

The lower thread is then held in the quad hands so the seizing can be added,

The block is then reversed so the seizing can be added to the upper tye thread.

The completed upper 5mm block is shown in the next photo.

These threads are then reeved through the 3mm single block and the 4mm double block, the 4mm block is shown in the photo below.

A length of thread is then seized around the lower 5mm single block.

An eyebolt is then added to the thread, using a template to set the distance between the eyebolt and single block.

The next set of photos shows the completed rigging.