Nave Egizia by Bryan Woods - FINISHED - Amati - 1:50

[Bryan Woods]

Thanks Bob:-)  the kit came with like 8 spools of thread:-) That one shot of the back of the stern shows more rope than wood:-) Next is about 20 standing rigging lines:-)

[Bryan Woods]

Standing rigging halfway completed. I started with the fore stay. First, the plastic mast head was making it hard to tie the lines on. So I drilled two holes for them. Then I thought it work better to wrap them around the beam holding the truss then tie them to the pins. Plus my pins may not be glued strong enough to hold tension straight up:-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15 by Bryan Woods

[Bryan Woods]

Standing rigging completed. I started on the lowers ones for the ease of installation. It would have been better to start at the top to keep the tension equal. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the kit supplied sail.

 

 

Not liking the wide hem, probably going to make another.

[ccoyle]

49 minutes ago, Bryan Woods said:

Not liking the wide hem, probably going to make another.

 

Yeah, that's your typical machine stitching -- very ill-suited to scale modeling. I agree that making another is the right option.

[Bryan Woods]

Trying to tie up a few loose ends before the deck gets crowded, I spent time on the boulders holding down the mast. I put a rope from the deck to keep them together. Then there’s part #71 top right on the plan. I don’t know what this is doing, but I cut it down and wedged it as a stop for the other two.

 

 

The kit came with a piece on wood for the base but that’s all. I laid out all the left over wood and decided what would be the best to use. I ended up using dowels trying to make them look like palm logs.

 

 

Pretty simple but it worked.

 

 

Not for sure about a name plate at this time.

 

The top yard was different because it was flat on the bottom and tapered on the top. The ends were made from 3 parts glued together then shaped and glued to the yard.

 

 

After this it got wrapped with rope that I dyed a darker brown.

 

For the sail I used artist tea paper I got in a roll. The last I had was on a board and the folds showed. 
 

 

I traced the sail and the seams on one side and painted the other with acrylic paint. Then cut it out. On the unpainted side I glued 1mm strips on the seams and 3mm on the sides.

 

 

After they dried, I glued them on the painted side, using the others as a guide.

 

 

On either side I glued a 1 mm bolt rope the same way I did the strips.

 

After holes were drilled. I lashed the sail on both yards.

 

[JacquesCousteau]

Nice work, that sail looks much better than the one that came with the kit!

[Bryan Woods]

Well, kinda sad to see this one end. But there will always be another. I would rate this kit high for nice materials. There were some challenges, mainly figuring out how some stuff needs to be done. Here’s the finished pics.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for all the comments, likes and views:-)

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Bryan Woods

[Knocklouder]

Great job my friend  , the joy of  starting another  ship takes the sting out of finishing one lol. Start a big one you have the room now . 

Congratulations   nicely done. 

Bob M.

Edited 11 hours ago by Knocklouder
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[JacquesCousteau]

Excellent job! The rope work is really fascinating and unique, this looks like it was a very fun model to build.

[catopower]

Wow, outstanding build, Bryan!

[Ronald-V]

Lovely little ship! Well done and congratulations on finishing it  

[Glen McGuire]

The rope work on the rustic base is a really nice touch.  It complements the ship quite well.  Great job, JC!

[ccoyle]

A very pleasing end result!