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It looks like the lower masts and rigging are essentially undamaged. Why not just remove the damaged rigging and spars and display the model in “ordinary.”
Roger
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Well, that’s one way to add a bit of character to the HMS Fly—courtesy of the local cat navy! Typical, isn’t it?You are right there certainly is!
After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred.I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.
I have thought of that route, but I am currently attempting a repair. I have replaced the broken masts and bowsprit, but the real challenge is going to be the rigging. I might still take the 'ordinary' option, will see what I can achieve.over the next month or so. What do they say, "worse things happen at sea".It looks like the lower masts and rigging are essentially undamaged. Why not just remove the damaged rigging and spars and display the model in “ordinary.”
Roger
Mine does the same thing!Now, as a contrast, my cat, Mable, is a great appreciator of my ships, always inspecting the day's work, occasionally finding & drawing my attention to a 'loose end' somewhere,