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Airfix Golden Hind 1/72 with added rigging and details

Thanks (AS ALWAYS!) Kirill. I found another reference to running tackles in another reference book I have. I have made notes, for when I get to the rigging.

I have spent the last few days masking (and masking and masking...) the GH hull so I can put the dark brown base coat under the places to be brown painted wood. That is now done. And I have used oil paints to add some texture. I will post some pics soon. I will let that cure for a week, and then I start the hand painting of the wales and the decorations. Scary stuff :)
 
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kirill4 said:
Good day!
John,
Me personal, on my model, Ive used No1 for back stay for the 16tn ... Don't hurry up... I would reccomend ...jist slowly going down trough Anderson book, each article relevant to your actual stage of your model rigging, to understand what he is talking about , and just follow what he says
You will be surprised how simple are the rigging are, that You could see on the models and pictures ...:)))
That riging lines #33 You marked blue and green on Peter Kirsch galleon model - they are botn should be mast tackles, mast tackles..but He says they are breath backstays which is strange for me....
As I could see, He didn't show back stays in his reconstruction of his galleon riggings... the initial source of all rigging reconstruction - see Anderson book

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Hmmm. My copy of Kirsch has many pages missing. I realised this because I do not have the page you posted, which identifies the numbers of the lines in the figure.

I am missing many pages...
36 to 47
74 to 164
and nothing beyond 200.
 
johnlattanzio said:
Hmmm. My copy of Kirsch has many pages missing. I realised this because I do not have the page you posted, which identifies the numbers of the lines in the figure.

I am missing many pages...
36 to 47
74 to 164
and nothing beyond 200.
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But I was aboe to find a copy at a resonable price so I have ordered it.
I prefer hard copies to electronic..but electronic are FAR better than none :-)
 
Dark brown parts of hull painted. I wanted it to appear as wood that has been painted...er...dark brown :-) I usually use some oils over that to get texture and grain but they don't show up very well against a dark base. I might try the lifecolor acrylics as a wash, once the oil has cured. So for the next few days I will be working on a B52 for a friend. Talk about extremes of technology!
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I have ordered the GH plans from Eugene. The belaying diagram is in German, and I have tried to translate as best as I can. The file below was constructed with the help of some German friends, If anyone can help extend entries, or clarify terms, that would be very welcome! Cheers.
 

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Hello John,
You can use any of specialized maritime dictionary for this, beside that, as I remember, in Markvardt 's book "Rigging of 18th ..." there is tripple dictionary french- german- english in the end of the book. That famous Mondfeld book about ship modeling, on the first pages has couple of very nice diagrams with rigging and belaying schemes of GH rigging...and in my opinion he made more accurate version of sprit sail rigging than Eugen/ that part which conserns spritsail braces only...You could see by yourself when You reach this stage... but this is only my private suggestion...
 
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