Good afternoon Rob. Nicely done. Cheers Grant
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Thank you for the kind comment Grant! This kit has been fun and I am really learning a lot.
Rob
The blocks, Stun Sails, Iron works and foot ropes were added to the main yard.
3 holes were drilled and eyebolts glued to the rear of the channel plates for the jig halyards to be attached to later on.
3 holes were drilled and eyebolts glued to the rear of the channel plates for the jig halyards to be attached to later on.
After delaying about as long as I could I finally stepped the mast onto the hull section.
The lower mast is supported by 6 shrouds, 5 are connected with deadeyes and the 6th called the swifter, is attached by a block and lanyard system. This gives it easier adjustability than the other shrouds.
The instruction would have you use a triple and double block for the swifter, but after seeing the discussion by Tom Culb, I decided to follow his advise and use 2 double blocks. The most forward shroud attaches to a deadeye then goes up around the mast and goes forward as the swifter. Since I believe this element of the ship will have a lot of visual impact, I rigged the block and lanyard using the model expo beautiful blocks I had. You can see they are a step up from what I used on the cannons. I also used the rope of scale 0.5mm (0.019" line). One of the blocks was seized to a hook. The other block I made a loop at one end by wrapping a line that will be used as the lanyard around a drill bit. I then seized that and seized a block to that. the long end of the lanyard was then run through the blocks.
The lower mast is supported by 6 shrouds, 5 are connected with deadeyes and the 6th called the swifter, is attached by a block and lanyard system. This gives it easier adjustability than the other shrouds.
The instruction would have you use a triple and double block for the swifter, but after seeing the discussion by Tom Culb, I decided to follow his advise and use 2 double blocks. The most forward shroud attaches to a deadeye then goes up around the mast and goes forward as the swifter. Since I believe this element of the ship will have a lot of visual impact, I rigged the block and lanyard using the model expo beautiful blocks I had. You can see they are a step up from what I used on the cannons. I also used the rope of scale 0.5mm (0.019" line). One of the blocks was seized to a hook. The other block I made a loop at one end by wrapping a line that will be used as the lanyard around a drill bit. I then seized that and seized a block to that. the long end of the lanyard was then run through the blocks.
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Beautifully done.
Thank you for your kind words!