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"Flying Cloud " by Mamoli - kit bash

Peter Gutterman said:
Finally got all the hearts stropped for the bowsprit, jibboom, whisker boom, martingale assemblies. Ten with attachment thread and ten with that plus lanyards. Got one mounted. I plan to post more mounting process pics, but this gives you the idea. All very tedious, close up teeny-weeny, fussy and slow.

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Indeed, tiny bits. But they add just the perfect amount of detailing. I'd say it was worth the effort!
 
Peter Gutterman said:
Finally got all the hearts stropped for the bowsprit, jibboom, whisker boom, martingale assemblies. Ten with attachment thread and ten with that plus lanyards. Got one mounted. I plan to post more mounting process pics, but this gives you the idea. All very tedious, close up teeny-weeny, fussy and slow.

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Good evening Peter. Sometimes I wonder why we put so much time into those tiny fiddly details. Maybe we are all a tad nutsROTF. It quite simple really- it’s these details which make the difference, makes us appreciate our ships more. The tiny, tedious hearts are worth it- way to go. Cheers Grant
 
Mid Nineteenth Century sailing ship rigging is a great example of the difference between theory and practice.

The concepts are simple as is the use of simple machines; levers and multipart block and tackles to multiply force. The execution, aka the picky details, was sophisticated and highly developed. Accurately depicting this separates the men from the boys!

Well done

Roger
 
As Promised: stem chains to bowsprit underside; starboard side chains hull to bowsprit, starboard side.
I used the little copper clip to locate the position of the heart at the end of the chain before attaching the heart and lanyard.
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After posting these pictures, I realize that there is a lot of this process that goes unrecorded: measuring, blackening the white metal hearts, running the lines, screwing up, do-overs, salty language, tweezers flying across the room, searching the floor with a flashlight to find the tiny piece I've just dropped-for the third or fourth time :eek: ( x 3 per each chain). o_O
Port side tomorrow. Then the whisker boom which I haven't mounted yet for fear of breaking it while working around it. Cautious
 
Finished all the bowsprit-jibboom chains and shrouds (standing rigging). The plans I used (A.J. Fisher) did not show hearts or deadeyes with the shrouds. I stuck with the one set of plans for continuities' sake. All three sets of plans I have varied in respect to this rigging layout.20250505_145147.jpg20250505_145111.jpg
 
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Thanks, everybody, and to @DerezzedDragon thanks for looking in and welcome aboard!
My wife just had cataract surgery yesterday. Total success! I asked the doc (a young attractive Korean woman who looks hardly old enough to be out of college, let alone be an experienced eyeball surgeon) how she is able to do such excruciatingly fine, delicate and demanding surgery, repeatedly ad infinitum, always perfect and right the first time? She only gets one shot at it every time! :eek: I explained about having an infinite number of do-overs just rigging a bowsprit, to get it right once. (and then far from perfect) She just smiled demurely and explained "Practice".;)
 
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Peter Gutterman said:
Thanks, everybody, and to @DerezzedDragon thanks for looking in and welcome aboard!
My wife just had cataract surgery yesterday. Total success! I asked the doc (a young attractive Korean woman who looks hardly old enough to be out of college, let alone be an experienced eyeball surgeon) how she is able to do such excruciatingly fine, delicate and demanding surgery, repeatedly ad infinitum, always perfect and right the first time? She only gets one shot at it every time! :eek: I explained about having an infinite number of do-overs just rigging a bowsprit, to get it right once. (and then far from perfect) She just smiled demurely and explained "Practice".;)
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So that’s the secret Peter. I clearly don’t have enough practice then- I don’t get it right most of the time ROTF. I glad the surgery was a success. Cheers Grant
 
Next step is to mount the ship's boats. Other than finishing up the rudder for the Quarter boat I found that, at this juncture, I was not yet ready to start adding parts and putting things together. More research. The plans and resources I have differ widely and are unspecific re. the Flying Cloud arrangements. The placement of the quarter boat being particularly vague. So, what I have to show here are the beginnings of layout. The Quarter boat can be displayed either outboard or inboard. I am going with outboard and using the davits supplied in the Aurora Seawitch kit as they are ostensibly the right scale (with a little modification still required for length).
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