Furled Sails

[Pwh]

Working on AL Endeavour and would like to have some of the sails furled. Looking for instructions or guidance on how to accomplish it. The kit came with ready made sails. Do I use them or make new sails and what type of material? Do you apply glue ?

 

[Roger Pellett]

First of all, any fabric material is way too thick to be used at any reasonable modeling scale, and it’s impossible to sew stitches fine enough to look realistic. The state of the art material for ship model sails is Silkspan, a soft paper material used by model airplane builders. It is usually painted with acrylic paint while still in sheet form. Furled sails are also made undersized to avoid looking too bulky.

I would not use kit supplied sails.

Roger

 

[Y.T.]

Type into YouTube search "model ship furled sails" and you will get:

and another dozen of videos

 

[Pwh]

Thanks. I looked at both videos. Not keen on working with silkspan. The 2nd video looks more appealing

 

[Namabiiru]

Anyone know where to get Silkpan? Google has no idea what it is. Mantua Models lists Modelspan, but it's out of stock.

 

[dockattner]

Anyone know where to get Silkpan? Google has no idea what it is. Mantua Models lists Modelspan, but it's out of stock.

Silkspan Lite

Silkspan Lite 24" x 36" Sheet for rubber powered and small gas models. (2) sheets per package Weight per one sheet: 0.02 oz

brodak.com

I used the lite version - but there are also thicker ones at that storefront.

I never ordered from this place but her is another source I found:

Covering Materials • Model Aviation Products

 

[Philski]

Anyone know where to get Silkpan? Google has no idea what it is. Mantua Models lists Modelspan, but it's out of stock.

Try here

 

[Pathfinder65]

SIG has been my source for silkspan.

SIG Home Page

Jan

 

[JMac]

I use : https://easybuiltmodels.com/parts.htm#gsc.tab=0
scroll to the bottom of the page

 

[AllanKP69]

Anyone know where to get Silkpan?

SIG SILKSPAN TISSUE

Silk Span Tissue An old favorite for Free Flight and Control Line models. Can be applied wet (white only 24" x 36" sheets) PACKAGE OF 6 PIECES SELECT USING THE DROP DOWN MENU

sigmfg.com