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.

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Shiver Me Timbers

Todays task was to build a swashbuckling pirate ship ready for a battle on the seas. The kit came with 29 pieces and is suitable for 3+ although the kit did say "Adult Assembly Required".

 

As with most of the kits I build I did have to strip it down and start again as I did miss adding a vital part. I did have have a willing helper and after 40 minutes of hard work the kit was completed.

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The main and foremast topsail and top gallant yards have now been added complete with tyes and lifts rigged.

 

Here is a picture of the current state of the build.

Now a picture showing the fore topsail yard with the parral beads in place.

The parrel beads around the fore topgallant yard is shown in the next picture.

Next is a photo of the topsail yard lfts which are now fully rigged and belayed.

The final two photos show the lifts for the main topgallant yard, noting I have not belayed which will be via a double block arrangement, with the lower block hooked to an eyebolt on the lower platform.

 

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Today the Main Boom was installed.

 

The first task was to secure the boom to the main mast with parral beads.

Next a length of thread was added to the end of the boom, as can be seen in the next photo.

This thread was then reeved through a block secured to the back of the main mast, as shown below.

The end of the boom was then belayed using a double block arrangement, as shown below.

Finally the thread that had been reeved through the main mast block was belayed to the deck via a double block arrangement, as shown below.

Finally a photo of the completed installation.

Next up will be the installation of the driver boom. Once that is done I will move on to rigging all the yard lifts, clews, sheets and tacks. Once they have been rigged the final task will be to rig all the yard braces and bowlines.

 

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Today I have been installing the driver boom.

 

The first photo below shows the WIP when adding the parral beads.

The next photo shows the inter-block rigging for the driver boom tye.

The next section of the rigging has been added as shown on the next photo. I am using pliers to add tension to the vangs, whilst the rigging is belayed.

The next photo shows a double block reeved.

The inter-block rigging for the two vangs have been added, as shown below.

I am having a problem belaying the vang rigging as the cleats are located very close to the side cabins making it very difficult to tie off. I have also hit a snag as can be seen in the photo below as one cleat has seared off. I am not sure what I am going to so at the moment. Grandkid duties tomorrow so I have a couple of days to consider my options.