Astrolabe 1812 by Knocklouder - Mantua - 1:50

[Knocklouder]

I got a grin on today, just finished the crowsfeet lines  on the main mast and the Mizzen mast.  It took me 45 minutes to thread each one , the Mizzen  I had to redo have missed a hole and had to backb up two holes

kurt says we did good on the crowsfeet lines,  but dont let it go to your head. Pause, take a deep breath,  now lets lift some yard shell we .lol

 I can feel the excitement of finishing the build, as far as the diorama we will see. I am all keyed up about starting a new ship lol. 

  I must thank 3 gentlemen that have help so much. @Glenn-UK  and @chris watton  , those two gentlemen  took the time to show me how to do crowsfeet lines, several times lol. I hope I was not to much of a pain in the anchor.

And gentlemen  number three is @Keith Black , his helping guidedence and tip off the needle threader have help me so much.

 plus every one else here thanks.  

MSW/NRG  also thanks for being there, it a great place to be, if you want to learn about modeling. 

Feeling really great full for being able to model, Rodney  gave me this model           6 months  before he passed today I am greatful  for it. Also greatful  for my next build,  which  we will talk about when we open the log,  Kurt is  getting  all Viking  on me lol. 

Thanks for looking  in.

It is a monster I tell you    

Bob  M

Kurt ⚒️

Edited Sunday at 03:01 PM by Knocklouder
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[Knocklouder]

Raising the yards according to the plans, looks  pretty  simple . I have looked at some amazing  logs on rigging,  there is no way this shakey old builder will ever come close to those, but the fun is in the tieing lol. Short cuts will be made , I seem to shake to much for a few things I would like to do but really  having a blast modeling.

I started  belaying  ropes to their right number point, lol some have four lines to one number. 🤣  I   will figure it out later.

All the yards  are hung, I just pined them on in the right spot. The pins hold the yards in place while I rig them. Something I pick up from my Duchess  build, its a great trick for me. After they are riged ,  I cut the pins thouch up no one will see.

Looks are deceiving,  there is a lot of blocks and seizing to be done. This is the part of the build that is up to me how good I make the rigging,  but there is WAY to much information about rigging to understand all of it. Thanks to the many logs here, I can make a go of it.

  At least there is no sails, I may  roll some up for the diorama,  but that will have to wait until I finish painting this one. Lol

 

That is for another log and another  day my friends.     

 Thanks  

Knocklouder

Kurt ⚒️ 

 

Edited Tuesday at 11:07 PM by Knocklouder

[Knocklouder]

So we backed up to the eight  yard and will start blocks  on all four yards.

Kurt tells  me we are moving  some blocks. That and a big thanks to @archjofo for his log. He showed in his log exactly  what I needed to do. So I will move these blocks forward. 

Hopefully  that will do the trick, thanks my friend,  and you thought  I was not paying  attention  to your log lol.

I have a bit of untanglement shell we say lol. Nothing  is glued,  and will be moving lines around  so that the runs are  smooth,  I hope.

Another roll of thread is coming  to an end, but we got stock lol. Good thing, because this has a lot of rigging  and I am no where near done lol.  

  Thankfully I have MSW to help,  on to the main mast. Appreciate  the likes and comments  , ya'll  have help me with many things, thanks for putting up with me, lol but I love building ships it's the best hobby.  I am sadden by all the lost time I could have been modeling  in stead of receiving all the benefits of  computers and internet pictures  and logs. I can almost read now lol., but I still don't know how to use the form lol.

Later my friend's, 

Knocklouder 

Kurt ⚒️ 

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Knocklouder
Guessing typos lol