Cazador Xebec - OcCre 1:60 [COMPLETED BUILD]

After adding the pulleys and the parrel to the yard, it was time for the sail.
I just couldn’t allow myself to use the kit sails as they are.

the border is too wide for the scale...around 2 ft at scale! It’s missing the reef lines and those big ugly hoops they had at the corners, I took them off!
Then I had the admiral step in and we unstitched the sail, trimmed the edges to fold over and make a smaller border. Then I had her sew it with a darker thread and add reef lines.

very happy with how it turned out. Then I sewed it to the yard. Now to add reef ropes and raise the mast!
Next I will attach the lift ropes, yard lines and sail lines.
Then I can move on to building the main yard.
 
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Dean62 said:
After adding the pulleys and the parrel to the yard, it was time for the sail.
I just couldn’t allow myself to use the kit sails as they are.
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the border is too wide for the scale...around 2 ft at scale! It’s missing the reef lines and those big ugly hoops they had at the corners, I took them off!
Then I had the admiral step in and we unstitched the sail, trimmed the edges to fold over and make a smaller border. Then I had her sew it with a darker thread and add reef lines.
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very happy with how it turned out. Then I sewed it to the yard. Now to add reef ropes and raise the mast!
Next I will attach the lift ropes, yard lines and sail lines.
Then I can move on to building the main yard.
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Really nice, Dean. Enjoying watching you work step by step.
 
Dean62 said:
After adding the pulleys and the parrel to the yard, it was time for the sail.
I just couldn’t allow myself to use the kit sails as they are.
View attachment 205675
the border is too wide for the scale...around 2 ft at scale! It’s missing the reef lines and those big ugly hoops they had at the corners, I took them off!
Then I had the admiral step in and we unstitched the sail, trimmed the edges to fold over and make a smaller border. Then I had her sew it with a darker thread and add reef lines.
View attachment 205676
very happy with how it turned out. Then I sewed it to the yard. Now to add reef ropes and raise the mast!
Next I will attach the lift ropes, yard lines and sail lines.
Then I can move on to building the main yard.
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That looks great, Dean. I’ll have to study it in great detail before I attempt it.
 
Dean62 said:
Milestone reached! Mizen mast, yard and sail... done and rigged!
Moving on to the main mast yard and sail. ;)
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These pictures reminded me of a question I was going to ask you. Did you customize the brass rudder bits? If so, what is the thickness of the brass and how did you cut it? And I assume you used your 'dot' of glue technique to simulate the bolts? Or is everything from the kit? I was looking at what my kit supplies and they are out of scale and poorly representative of the real ship so I'm trolling for ideas.
 
dockattner said:
These pictures reminded me of a question I was going to ask you. Did you customize the brass rudder bits? If so, what is the thickness of the brass and how did you cut it? And I assume you used your 'dot' of glue technique to simulate the bolts? Or is everything from the kit? I was looking at what my kit supplies and they are out of scale and poorly representative of the real ship so I'm trolling for ideas.
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If you go back in my log to where I built the rudder, you will see that they provided the brass strips with pre-drilled holes. However they were too long and the hole locations spread out too far. So I trimmed them to length and drilled extra holes. Then I used some tiny brass nails that were in the kit for planking. They are about the size of a straight pin, just shorter in length. Since the rudder isn't thick enough to use them as is, I cut them to about 3mm long so I could use on both sides after drilling a pilot hole. I mainly wanted to use the heads for looks. If they would not have been available, I surely would have made heads out of glue. ;)
Hope that helps! Also the brass strips are very thin, about .5mm thick and 3mm wide.
 
I had built a stand for the ship, to work on it. I decided to mount that on a board and use it. I just had to modify it a little. A narrowed the width and added an angle on the ends. Then I glued and nailed down and painted it a flat black.
I didn’t paint the inside where the keel sits because you will not see that. ;)
 
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