Another HMS Victory Rigging Question

[Kenny G]

Hello Everyone,

In anticipation of your help thank you in advance. I am currently building a very detailed 1:87 Scale model of HMS Victory by Occre it is very detailed but somewhat let down by the size and quality of the rigging thread with only 3 sizes of thread for all the standing and running rigging. I have decided that I wish to upgrade the rigging with Ropes of Scale ropes and also amend the size of the lines for a more realistic effe ct with appropriate blocks to match.
Occre have provided the following rigging schematics and for those of you familiar with Victory and your own experience of its rigging I would like to ask if you believe the following drawings present a reasonable and accurate expectation of the ships rigging or if there are any glaring and obvious errors.
My intention is to create a table of the rigging using the Occre labels and provide the following info name actual rope size and 1:87 scale size this can then hopefully help future Victory builders with the rigging regardless of scale

Here are the very many Occre pages

 

[Corsair]

I don't have the answer to your question, but I would recommend that you get the book on the Victory in the Anatomy of the Ship series. People on Ebay are nuts now, but I saw a few of them on the site for Abe Books in the $28 USD range that you might look into. It gives quite a bit of detail about the ship for such a small book.

Jeff

 

[Uwek]

Maybe this post by HIS Model alias @BRadek is helping

Advice or help required on rigging thread

So I am going to ask for your advice / help here I recently built Occre's Flying Dutchman and although I am personally very happy with the way this kit turned out I am now building their special edition HMS Victory. My one area of doubt is that I am not overly impressed with Occre thread the...

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[Alexander74]

Longridge's book "Anatomy of Nelson's Ships" describes each rig in great detail, indicating its actual size. You need to read carefully and convert to 87 scale