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Hi Stergios, nice to see an update!  I can't quite tell what you are showing in the picture.  Are you using wire for the stirrups, looks like rope in bottom picture (?)

Cheers,
 
Jason


"Which it will be ready when it is ready!"
 
In the shipyard:

HMS Jason (c.1794: Artois Class 38 gun frigate)

Queen Anne Royal Barge (c.1700)

Finished:

HMS Snake (c.1797: Cruizer Class, ship rigged sloop)

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7 hours ago, Beef Wellington said:

Hi Stergios, nice to see an update!  I can't quite tell what you are showing in the picture.  Are you using wire for the stirrups, looks like rope in bottom picture (?)

Hi Jason, those are three tinny telephone wire twisted bundles.

The bottom pic is with the primer... I'm about to paint it black just to see its appearance

Thanks

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Thinking to pass the twisted wire through a hole to the yard and accomplish the whole procedure covering the stirrup with a kind of lashing of additional relative's size black thread.

That will be the second version of realism, hanging the stirrups through the center of the yard and not behind it...

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A couple of pictures demonstrating the preliminary result using 0,5 and 0,75 black thread for the footropes.

I'll leave the rigging semi-loose till the final placement just to be sure for the tension of the fittings and to simulate a sense of gravity rope "sagging" using floor cleaner as a rope hardener.

 

I've found the tip to save my photos in a 270 degrees orientation.

This way i can upload and show them without problem preserving my (and yours) cervical spine stablity. :D:D:rolleyes:

 

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Now ii's time to find the right height for the yards.

I'll go using the respective platforms (I can't recall their names, now...) as a reference for the right height for the point to drill a 1mm hole and to fix the yard. 

 

PS: The photos are "uploaded" in a 90 degrees orientation. :(

I sent a query mail to msw, no reply.....

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The rigging of the yards is almost complete.

Thinking to leave all of them unmounted out off the masts.

I'll continue with the permanent placement of the bowsprit and start this way the standing rigging of the ship. 

If you consider I'm wrong, please say it now. :D

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Hi friends.

A questionn in brief, for the spritsail...

Do you suggest to fix it to the bowsprit (using a 1mm pin etc as for the rest of the yards) or leave it hanging alone with the attached ropes and blocks?

Thank you in advance. 

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2 hours ago, drtrap said:

Hi friends.

A questionn in brief, for the spritsail...

Do you suggest to fix it to the bowsprit (using a 1mm pin etc as for the rest of the yards) or leave it hanging alone with the attached ropes and blocks?

Thank you in advance. 

I did it!

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Very good Stergios, just catching up on your work.  I really need to get back and finish my Snake...

Cheers,
 
Jason


"Which it will be ready when it is ready!"
 
In the shipyard:

HMS Jason (c.1794: Artois Class 38 gun frigate)

Queen Anne Royal Barge (c.1700)

Finished:

HMS Snake (c.1797: Cruizer Class, ship rigged sloop)

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