Cazador Xebec 1750 - OcCre - scale 1:60 [COMPLETED BUILD]

Tobias · Apr 15, 2023

Hello Peter, just great. One question do you leave the oars on the deck?

Ptèr · Apr 15, 2023

Tobias said:
Hello Peter, just great. One question do you leave the oars on the deck?

Hi Tobias. Yes, it's what the kit describes. I know of other Xebec's the oars were hung on the sides of the upper bulwarks, but this will not work on this model due to the swivel cannons.

Tobias · Apr 15, 2023

After looking at your last picture again, I thought so, but I had already asked my question. Nonetheless, great work you're doing.

RDN1954 · Apr 15, 2023

Dean62 said:
I just wanted to warn you Peter, the Eagle may start talking to you! Because it’s his ship now, be warned!

Oh, please, not another talking animal in the driver seat.
We've seen what happens when they are; total and utter chaos.
Peter, please keep that overgrown cockatoo on a leash

dockattner · Apr 15, 2023

As always your work is clean and precise. Love the anchor rigging!

shota70 · Apr 15, 2023

Ptèr said:
Continuation of the rigging

Hello everyone. It's always nice to mark a few completed tasks on my buildlist. Still plenty of to do's left tho...

Attaching the anchors
One of the tasks completed is the attachment of the anchors on the davits. For this I'm using a double pulley block, rope and a lot of patience.... This is done with beige colored rope and is part of the running rigging.
At the bottom of the outrigger, the rope is attached to an eyelet and then threaded through a double sheave block and finally runs over two sheaves from the davit to a cleat. There the rope is secured and the end is tucked behind a beam against the bulwark/side wall.
The anchor buoy is attached to the anchor. I thought it would be a nice effect to let it hang at both anchors. This means that the rope will lie rolled up on the deck. Not super neat as they sometimes do with cannons, but simply piled up like a coil of rope. I need to tidy up the latter a bit.
The anchor rope is also attached to the ring of the anchor. It was laid out neatly and it was not easy to imitate the weight of that rope. The rope eventually runs through one of the holes of a grate to the hold. This rope is very heavy and therefore it has been deliberately laid fairly taut.

Standing Rigging Foremast fixed
After 48 hours I tightened and secured the ropes.
The ends are tied together and tucked against the side wall / bulwark behind a beam. It's a very small space and you can't just get the loops in between.
To do this neatly and "quickly", I tied a thread around the ends of the bottom loops and used the thread to pull it behind the bar. This is going very well and with some dedication it is easy to get them behind the bar. When it's neatly behind it, I simply remove the string and that's it.

First set of rowing oars completed
The first set of 9 oars are made and placed on the deck. Each oar is built entirely by hand from different parts. They are very labor intensive to make. I have to make another set of 9 oars to do and that will also take some hours of work. That's for a next update.

That's it for this update. I hope you're still following and please leave a comment if you like. Thanks for all the interest!

Regards,
Peter

I love your professional work, my friend

Dean62 · Apr 15, 2023

Ptèr said:
Continuation of the rigging

Hello everyone. It's always nice to mark a few completed tasks on my buildlist. Still plenty of to do's left tho...

Attaching the anchors
One of the tasks completed is the attachment of the anchors on the davits. For this I'm using a double pulley block, rope and a lot of patience.... This is done with beige colored rope and is part of the running rigging.
At the bottom of the outrigger, the rope is attached to an eyelet and then threaded through a double sheave block and finally runs over two sheaves from the davit to a cleat. There the rope is secured and the end is tucked behind a beam against the bulwark/side wall.
The anchor buoy is attached to the anchor. I thought it would be a nice effect to let it hang at both anchors. This means that the rope will lie rolled up on the deck. Not super neat as they sometimes do with cannons, but simply piled up like a coil of rope. I need to tidy up the latter a bit.
The anchor rope is also attached to the ring of the anchor. It was laid out neatly and it was not easy to imitate the weight of that rope. The rope eventually runs through one of the holes of a grate to the hold. This rope is very heavy and therefore it has been deliberately laid fairly taut.

Standing Rigging Foremast fixed
After 48 hours I tightened and secured the ropes.
The ends are tied together and tucked against the side wall / bulwark behind a beam. It's a very small space and you can't just get the loops in between.
To do this neatly and "quickly", I tied a thread around the ends of the bottom loops and used the thread to pull it behind the bar. This is going very well and with some dedication it is easy to get them behind the bar. When it's neatly behind it, I simply remove the string and that's it.

First set of rowing oars completed
The first set of 9 oars are made and placed on the deck. Each oar is built entirely by hand from different parts. They are very labor intensive to make. I have to make another set of 9 oars to do and that will also take some hours of work. That's for a next update.

That's it for this update. I hope you're still following and please leave a comment if you like. Thanks for all the interest!

Regards,
Peter

Beautiful work Peter! Love the rope! Where did you source the rope?

Ptèr · Apr 16, 2023

RDN1954 said:
Oh, please, not another talking animal in the driver seat.
We've seen what happens when they are; total and utter chaos.
Peter, please keep that overgrown cockatoo on a leash

I had some discussions about her purpose and existence. She now understand....I've shown her an alternative if she doesn't.....

dockattner said:
As always your work is clean and precise. Love the anchor rigging!

Thanks Paul. I'm really struggeling with the rigging part. This has for one to do with not using the plans and instructions of the kit and I have to re-create new plans out of pictures I have of this ship. The other is my own ability to make something out of it....

shota70 said:
I love your professional work, my friend

Hi Shota! Thank you. I'm an amateur but keep improving....Nice of you to leave a reaction!

Dean62 said:
Beautiful work Peter! Love the rope! Where did you source the rope?

Thanks Dean, rope is of the highest quality, cable quality is very impressive! The best I know and it's from ropeofscale.com. BenD is also a member of this forum.

RDN1954 · Apr 16, 2023

Ptèr said:
I had some discussions about her purpose and existence. She now understand....I've shown her an alternative if she doesn't.....

Peter Voogt · Apr 16, 2023

Ptèr said:
Continuation of the rigging

Hello everyone. It's always nice to mark a few completed tasks on my buildlist. Still plenty of to do's left tho...

Attaching the anchors
One of the tasks completed is the attachment of the anchors on the davits. For this I'm using a double pulley block, rope and a lot of patience.... This is done with beige colored rope and is part of the running rigging.
At the bottom of the outrigger, the rope is attached to an eyelet and then threaded through a double sheave block and finally runs over two sheaves from the davit to a cleat. There the rope is secured and the end is tucked behind a beam against the bulwark/side wall.
The anchor buoy is attached to the anchor. I thought it would be a nice effect to let it hang at both anchors. This means that the rope will lie rolled up on the deck. Not super neat as they sometimes do with cannons, but simply piled up like a coil of rope. I need to tidy up the latter a bit.
The anchor rope is also attached to the ring of the anchor. It was laid out neatly and it was not easy to imitate the weight of that rope. The rope eventually runs through one of the holes of a grate to the hold. This rope is very heavy and therefore it has been deliberately laid fairly taut.

Standing Rigging Foremast fixed
After 48 hours I tightened and secured the ropes.
The ends are tied together and tucked against the side wall / bulwark behind a beam. It's a very small space and you can't just get the loops in between.
To do this neatly and "quickly", I tied a thread around the ends of the bottom loops and used the thread to pull it behind the bar. This is going very well and with some dedication it is easy to get them behind the bar. When it's neatly behind it, I simply remove the string and that's it.

First set of rowing oars completed
The first set of 9 oars are made and placed on the deck. Each oar is built entirely by hand from different parts. They are very labor intensive to make. I have to make another set of 9 oars to do and that will also take some hours of work. That's for a next update.

That's it for this update. I hope you're still following and please leave a comment if you like. Thanks for all the interest!

Regards,
Peter

Very nice rigging, Peter. With all the details.
Regards, Peter

GrantTyler · Apr 16, 2023

Ptèr said:
I hope you're still following

Absolutely

. Good morning Peter. Excellent rope and rigging work. The way you did the Anchor

and how you laid the cable is so cool. A question please….what size is your Anchor

cable? It is so spot on and and a beautiful piece of rope.
I am impressed you got the coil behind the bar on the bulkwark. I was looking at other models and they have more space than the Cazador design. Well done. I’m guessing that is a 1mm rope as well?
Brilliant work Peter. Cheers Grant

GrantTyler · Apr 16, 2023

Ptèr said:
Hi Tobias. Yes, it's what the kit describes. I know of other Xebec's the oars were hung on the sides of the upper bulwarks, but this will not work on this model due to the swivel cannons.

They will also hide those beautiful carvings

Ptèr · Apr 16, 2023

Peter Voogt said:
Very nice rigging, Peter. With all the details.
Regards, Peter

Thanks Peter, a lot of tiny details and you know what I mean with that considering your beautiful BlueNose build.

GrantTyler said:
Absolutely . Good morning Peter. Excellent rope and rigging work. The way you did the and how you laid the cable is so cool. A question please….what size is your cable? It is so spot on and and a beautiful piece of rope.
I am impressed you got the coil behind the bar on the bulkwark. I was looking at other models and they have more space than the Cazador design. Well done. I’m guessing that is a 1mm rope as well?
Brilliant work Peter. Cheers Grant

The anchor cable is 2.1mm. I use many different sizes of rope on my model.
0.9mm for the standing rigging
0.6mm for the running rigging that will adust sails etc.
0.7mm for the Anchor

rope
0.5mm for the buoy rope
0.35mm for bindings

I still need to figure out so much about the rigging of the sails.....It's just a big puzzle at the moment and I have to figure out how to operate the sails and yards so to draw and reverse engineer the rigging part. I wish I know how to sail, probably this knowledge would help a lot....

Pathfinder65 · Apr 16, 2023

Wow, you’re attention to the smallest detail is incredible. It’s a pleasure to follow your log.

Jan

Ptèr · Apr 19, 2023

Pathfinder65 said:
Wow, you’re attention to the smallest detail is incredible. It’s a pleasure to follow your log.

Jan

Thanks Jan, appreciated very much!

GrantTyler · Apr 19, 2023

Ptèr said:
Thanks Peter, a lot of tiny details and you know what I mean with that considering your beautiful BlueNose build.

The anchor cable is 2.1mm. I use many different sizes of rope on my model.
0.9mm for the standing rigging
0.6mm for the running rigging that will adust sails etc.
0.7mm for the rope
0.5mm for the buoy rope
0.35mm for bindings

I still need to figure out so much about the rigging of the sails.....It's just a big puzzle at the moment and I have to figure out how to operate the sails and yards so to draw and reverse engineer the rigging part. I wish I know how to sail, probably this knowledge would help a lot....

Good morning Peter. Thank you. I am very fortunate to have you building a Xebec at the same scale before me. Your assistance is much appreciated. Cheers Grant

Ptèr · Apr 20, 2023

Rigging the main mast

Hi all,
Today a first part of the rigging of the main mast. First I had to draw the riggingplan on paper and second to make it in real life.
I start at the bottom part because the ropes that hold the pins needs to be served. I never done this before so a first time for everything I guess.

I use a serving tool of Syren ship models. It's a pretty simple device that comes into several parts that needs to be glued together.
After that there is the bottom brass tube that holds the bobbing and just above that the rope that needs to be served.
Connecting the threat to the rope at one end and then turning the wheel so to say to serve the rope.