Royal Caroline by marsalv - FINISHED - Panart

[NMBROOK]

Simply tremendous work on the tops Marsalv!

Kind Regards Nigel

[marsalv]

Thanks everyone for the compliments .

 

Little bit progress in mast constuction.

[marsalv]

Another detail on masts - collars.

[sparrow]

Excellent work on the masts, Marsalv!

 

I will be trying to inspire myself when I get to this point.

[marsalv]

So I went into the making ropes and after about a week of intensive work (exactly 27 hours of actual time) I have done. There will be a total of 9 different rope  thicknesses in the model (7 are ropes + 2 basic yarns from which the ropes are made). I made about 220 ropes of different thicknesses.

[NMBROOK]

Excellent Marsalv!! Did you arrive at the different sizes from the AOS book?I haven't got to that stage yet,having only 'glanced' at the rigging,mainly to see how everything is belayed,

 

Kind Regards Nigel

[marsalv]

Excellent Marsalv!! Did you arrive at the different sizes from the AOS book?I haven't got to that stage yet,having only 'glanced' at the rigging,mainly to see how everything is belayed,

 

Kind Regards Nigel

Thank you very much nmbrook. I used informations from book James Lees - The masting and rigging of English ships of war. In download section you can find the table which is very helpful.

 

Back to my model. I finally finished lower parts of masts.

[NMBROOK]

Fabulous work marsalv I don't have Lee's book,but I have another book with rope size ratio's to main mast diameter,so I shall follow that 

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[marsalv]

Thank you nmbrook for kind words. Here is the "james Lees" table - http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Rigging_and_Sails/Period%20Ship%20Scale%20Tables.xls. Here is the second one - http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Mats_and_Yards/MastingandRiggingSpreadsheet.xlsm.

 

I continue with the production of topmasts and caps.

 

 

[NMBROOK]

Hi Marsalv

 

Thank you very much for the spreadsheet,I have saved it.I did find the list of sizes in the AOS book and have ordered rope and pear block from Chuck at Syren.It did not give footrope size,but I took a guess and ordered 0.2mm rope.Lucky guess as your table says 0.17mm

Excellent work on the upper masts I think I may resort to splicing the lower octagonal sections to the dowel.Studying the book,there is as much work in the masting and rigging of this model as there is as building and fitting out the hull!!!!

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

Edited March 14, 2014 by NMBROOK

[marsalv]

Bowsprit, jib boom, jackstaff and enisgn staff.

[marsalv]

Top masts and topgallant masts are completed.

[marsalv]

After longer break. a few more images - I finished the production of the yards.

[RGL]

You have made this look easy, I'm just about up to this on my Endeavour, looking forward to your tutorial on their rigging ;-)

[SawdustDave]

Hi Marsalv:

Glad I found your incredible work. You will become my latest in extremely fine MASTERS of the art that I shall be following and learning from. Having now built several ships from scratch, I am inspired by many builders, such as yourself to strive every day to improve my own work.

Thanks for being an example to all of us.

Dave

[marsalv]

Thanks everyone for comments.

Work on the RC will now be temporarily stopped. I started to build a new model - see my new log scratch build of Pandora. The work on the rigging will continue in the autumn and winter because these works I can make indoors.

[Lukasvdb]

WAUW, Just wauw...

[radrick21]

Stunning precision!  Incredible.

[marsalv]

Hi again,

 

after a short break I would like finally finished my Royal Caroline. Although most of the parts are already done, there is still a lot of work on the sails and rigging. I started slowly preparing blocks and auxiliary cables on the bowsprit. Jib traveller will be mounted later on bowsprit.

[NMBROOK]

Excellent work Marsalv!!

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[marsalv]

Thanks Nigel .

Bowsprit is attached to the hull. A few pictures of the gammoning and rack-blocks. .

[marsalv]

Works on bowsprit rigging are cpmpleted now - bobstay shrouds, bowsprit shrouds, boomkin shrouds) and main stay collar.

[marsalv]

Burton pendants.

[marsalv]

I have finished the shrouds instalation. The used dead eyes are not ideal - groove for the rope is too big and the rope is hidden in the groove. I will try to make my own dead eyes for my next project (Pandora).

[Bedford]

Beautiful work

[marsalv]

Thanks Bedford.

Next part - mouse for the main, fore and mizzen stay.

[GuntherMT]

That's a great technique for making that look on the mouse.  Did you secure all the ends with CA or something before trimming them back, or do you have some other way of dealing with the ends and blending them into the rope at both ends of the mouse?

 

Can you explain in detail how you worked the threads around the mouse to get that final 'weaving' effect, did you actually weave another thread into all those?

Edited December 6, 2014 by GuntherMT

[marsalv]

That's a great technique for making that look on the mouse.  Did you secure all the ends with CA or something before trimming them back, or do you have some other way of dealing with the ends and blending them into the rope at both ends of the mouse?

 

Can you explain in detail how you worked the threads around the mouse to get that final 'weaving' effect, did you actually weave another thread into all those?

All the ends are secured with diluted PVA glue to the stay. It is very important that the "skeleton" from thread must contain an odd number. Then just drag out another thread throughout the "skeleton", alternately one under, one above thread. It is little difficult and time-consuming work.

The stays (and their accessories) is ready and installed on the model.

[GuntherMT]

All the ends are secured with diluted PVA glue to the stay. It is very important that the "skeleton" from thread must contain an odd number. Then just drag out another thread throughout the "skeleton", alternately one under, one above thread. It is little difficult and time-consuming work.

The stays (and their accessories) is ready and installed on the model.

 

So the pattern on the mouse is actually 'weaved' by using an odd thread?  Yikes.  Do you use a different thread from the skeleton for each row of the weave, or just use a single thread and weave it around until the entire mouse is complete (i.e. spiral it)?

[marsalv]

Hi GuntherMT,

there is odd number of grooves on the wooden ring, each groove contains one thread. I used a single thread and weaved it around to make a spiral - this is reason why skeleton must contain odd number of thread. If you use even number of thread in skeleton, you can not use a single thread, but you must use a new thread for each row in mouse - this is not good idea.