HMS Victory by divarty - FINISHED - Corel - cross-section

[divarty]

I attached the main yard to the mast and added the sling, the sling itself is just a piece of line run over the mast cap and back down through the trestle tree, around the yard and finished off by an overhand knot around the sling again.

 

 

After the main yard was attached I tightened up all of the running rigging and rattled it down to be placed on the belaying pin rail.

 

 

 

The belaying pin rail has become very busy, I have some guesses as to what to do with it but I'm not certain.

 

 

I was thinking some CA to lock all the ropes into place then clip the excess and make some coils that I can put over the pins to cover the mess?  Hell, I'm not even certain I landed the ropes on the correct side of the belaying rail or if it would vary and you might have ropes off either side? 

 

In just the span of two days I have gone from a messy looking pile of sticks and strings with no end in sight to an almost completed ship section, by my count I have 6 blocks and two lines left to do then it's just a matter of putting in the details on the decks (buckets, balast, barrels, coradge, stacks of wood etc.)

[divarty]

After a busy weekend in the shipyard  and a lot of support from the forum on how to deal with my belaying pin rack issue my Victory cross section is complete.  I still need to add in my barrels but prior to doing that I have to blacken the barrel hoops.  The admiral took a ton of fine photos of the ship but I narrowed it down to the ones that really show her off and didn't duplicate pictures already in my build log. 

 

The balast on the bottom was interesting, I went round and round on it, finally I picked up some aquarium rocks, blocked off both side with some handy cardboard and clamps then drizzled diluted white glue on them, it worked it's way through the cracks and sealed it up nicely so they don't move around or fall out.  I know that on a real man-of-war they probably wouldn't have random timber and rope haphazardly strewn around but I think it adds to the overall look of the model.

 

Now I just need to figure out what to build next.

 

Edited July 7, 2014 by divarty

[Erebus and Terror]

Well done. She turned out beautifully and the rigging is very impressive.