Pandora by marsalv - FINISHED - 1:52

[wyz]

Wow!  The work on those sails is off the scale nice.  I envy your craftsmanship.  Your Pandora is one of my favorite build logs to follow.  Simply awesome!

[Tim Curtis]

Ditto Dirk.

My thoughts exactly.

Tim

[marsalv]

Thank you guys for so many nice responses.

To aviaamator: I have found no informations about it, but there are many pictures in the Lees book (The masting and rigging of english ships of war), where can you see that direction of leech rope was the same on both sides of the sail.

I continue with the fore and main course. Only these two sails will be partially furled.

Edited May 18, 2018 by marsalv

[aviaamator]

Immaculately!! P.S. I understand Your answer about the sails, thank you! Still there is a question concerning the direction of a twist of a running rigging in what party it twist at production: to the right or to the left?

[marsalv]

The running rigging should have right direction, but it is difficult to make right-handed rigging from the right-handed threads. I tried it, but the results was not acceptable. So I decided to make all rigging as left-handed.

Next part - cross jack yard and mizzen course installation.

Edited May 21, 2018 by marsalv

[albert]

Bravissimo, very very nice work.

[druxey]

Nice to see the correct number of reef points per cloth!

 

If you need right hand line and only have right hand thread, you can unwind the thread and rewind it left handed before spinning right hand line from it.

[Old Collingwood]

Astonishing  - Superb workmanship.

 

OC.

[alde]

I need to go back and read your whole build log but WOW. Amazing work.

[Ryzuhr]

Greetings marsalv!

 

I recently joined MSW and have been reading through build logs to try and learn as much as I can before I start my first build. I'm currently on page 6 of your build and might I say this looks like it is turning out to be a beautiful ship. I can't wait to get the experience it would take to reproduce anything close to the level of craftsmanship you are displaying.

 

Looking forward to catching up and following along!

[cabrapente]

On 6/2/2018 at 10:21 AM, marsalv said:

Hola Greg, no fue tan complicado, solo necesitó paciencia y tiempo .

La siguiente tarea: los obenques.

fantastic job.
One question: how do you finish the knots of the cabuyeria? With cyanoacrylate? no stain or color change is seen.
a greeting cabrapente

[Ryzuhr]

Ohhh man. I finally caught up with your entire log and this is all impressive. Excellent craftsmanship and very precise work!

 

If I could ask, how do you learn this kind of rigging? The Amati Drakkar kit I want to build does not have a fraction of this much rigging involved and the Pandora seems like a real challenge. Is rigging skill picked up overtime as your build more models and following provided instructions or are there additional resources for modelers to read up on to do all of this?

[marsalv]

Thank you guys for all comments and likes. I am very happy because number of followers reached 100.

To druxey: I have tried the metod of making ropes you describe, but the result was not good for me. If you unwind the thread and rewind it left handed before spinning resulting rope is not the same quality as the ropes without unwinding (my opinion). From this reason I decided to make the left handed ropes.

To cabrapente: I dont undestand the word " cabuyeria ", but all knots are fixed with diluted white PVA glue.

To Ryzuhr: Most information is taken form Anatomy of the ship PANDORA book. But this book does not include the all necessary information so I use the following books for addition:

James Lees - The masting and rigging of english ships of war

David Antscherl The fully framed model, rigging a sixth rate sloop of 1767-1780

Klaus Schrage - Rundhloelzer, Tauwerk und Segel.

So and now some new pictures - installation of topsails. 

[Mirabell61]

I like your rigging and sail making Marsalve,

 

it looks very realistic !   

 

Nils

[dvm27]

I think it's very hard to add convincing looking sails to a fully rigged model. But you certainly make it look easy Marsalv. they look just right with the back lighting.

[Ryzuhr]

On 5/28/2018 at 3:47 AM, marsalv said:

To Ryzuhr: Most information is taken form Anatomy of the ship PANDORA book. But this book does not include the all necessary information so I use the following books for addition:

James Lees - The masting and rigging of english ships of war

David Antscherl The fully framed model, rigging a sixth rate sloop of 1767-1780

Klaus Schrage - Rundhloelzer, Tauwerk und Segel.

Awesome, thank you! I will keep a look out for these to add to the library. I appreciate the information!

[aviaamator]

Beautiful!!! Greetings!!!!!!!

[marsalv]

Thank you guys, the sails and riggings are finally completed. It remains now to make back lanterns, fix the anchors and the last part - the boats.

[marsalv]

Rest of pictures:

[albert]

Masterpiece.

[Ryzuhr]

This is incredibly beautiful and I want one.

[Cpt Jack Sparrow]

What an incredible piece of craftsmanship. 

[dvm27]

Gold standard, Marsalv! Will this model grace your home or a museum?

[Tim Curtis]

Just perfect. You set a standard we all aspire to. What a beautiful ship you have made. 

[wyz]

When this model is finished I hope it ends up in a place where lots of people can view it.  Pandora is way too beautiful to reside in your home!  The world needs to see this model.

[druxey]

Very nice work. The correct number of reef points on the sails are particularly impressive!

[Jeronimo]

Very beautiful work.

Karl

[marsalv]

Thank you very much guys!

To dvm27 - this model will be installed in my living room together with my other models.

To wyz - some people will be have the possibility to see this model in September 2018 in Romania (Naviga´s World Championship) and in Czech Republik (Czech Championship).

Some pictures from lanterns production.

[John Cheevers]

Your work is very impressive!

 

[mcpwilk]

Staggeringly good - puts 'museum quality' in the shade!

 

Mike