Ropes look nice Maarten. Did you cut the bitumen in turpentine? It looks like you were able to wipe off the excess very well creating some nice tinting of the grooves.
I dilluted some bitumen with turpentine. Put it on the rope with a brush and then pulled the rope trough a piece of toilet paper. The poly rope is far less absorbant then cotton so you partly wipe it off and it remains in the recessed areas creating this effect. For tarred ropes you can just apply the bitumen with less turpentine dillution and not wipe it off.
Baby steps, but with a great outcome, Maarten. And indeed, the rope have a very natural appearance.
Regards, Peter
Thx Peter, Heinrich for your feedback.
Again baby steps
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The first gun is fully rigged.
For the 3 mm blocks I have made hooks of 0,4 mm brass wire and burnished them
Then I made 3x120 Mara ropes and coloured with bitumen. For rigging the blocks I made a default setup that all ropes are equal in lenght.
The first carriage I rigged for reloading, fully pulled backwards.
I also made a set of tools for the gun, comparable to HMS Victory.
And all installed on deck.
Again baby steps
.The first gun is fully rigged.
For the 3 mm blocks I have made hooks of 0,4 mm brass wire and burnished them
Then I made 3x120 Mara ropes and coloured with bitumen. For rigging the blocks I made a default setup that all ropes are equal in lenght.
The first carriage I rigged for reloading, fully pulled backwards.
I also made a set of tools for the gun, comparable to HMS Victory.
And all installed on deck.
Two more items I added today are the cathead tackle on the PS side. To give some weight to the block I put some CA on the ropes.
As the ship just anchored I thought it would be fun to add a sounding lead which they used before anchoring to measure the depth.
I found a Dutch 17th century sounding lead from where I got my inspiration to make one.
Still head some lead in stock from which I cut a tiny piece.
After some hammering to get the shape I wanted I added a knotted rope with a knot at every Fathom (everything 6 feet) or 38 mm in scale.
On the inside all ropes lashed on the bullwark.
As the ship just anchored I thought it would be fun to add a sounding lead which they used before anchoring to measure the depth.
I found a Dutch 17th century sounding lead from where I got my inspiration to make one.
Still head some lead in stock from which I cut a tiny piece.
After some hammering to get the shape I wanted I added a knotted rope with a knot at every Fathom (everything 6 feet) or 38 mm in scale.
On the inside all ropes lashed on the bullwark.
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That lead with the Fathom-knots is a nice detail, Maarten. Gives me a deja-vu. Ones played in the Brassband on my tuba the piece of music “Forty Fathom”. That went lower and lower to the lowest register of a tuba with the 'pedal notes'.
Regards, Peter
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My deja-vu was last night at midnight, when the brassband was still going on in the streets here.
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40 fathom, thats 73 mtrs. On Alert we are not reaching that depth
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Hi Marteen,
Very well done! the whole work looks amazing. Just a thing: It seems to me the block of the anchor's two ways train tackle doesn't simulate properly the pulleys inside. Four simple holes instead of two continous slots would have possibly worked better... IMHO. Cheers!
Very well done! the whole work looks amazing. Just a thing: It seems to me the block of the anchor's two ways train tackle doesn't simulate properly the pulleys inside. Four simple holes instead of two continous slots would have possibly worked better... IMHO. Cheers!
Thx for your comment, much appreciated and I fully agree with you, but actually in the block there are pullies mounted which are part of the kit. These pullies are on the small side for the width of the block and maybe I could have better replaced them by my own made pullies.
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I wrote "pulleys" instead of pullies... sorry for the crab. I see, Marteen. The guns train takles are perfect, indeed.
pulleys (sorry, I'm the son of an English teacher)
Lost in translation, lets call them sheaves.
No unclearity about pullies or pulleys.
No unclearity about pullies or pulleys.
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Ahahaha, great idea!
Beautiful work as always Maarten! Your technique and craftsmanship is flawless…much respect! 
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Do you use a hollow syringe needle to burn the treenails here? Just curious about your tools/process?
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Those guns with insignia are part of the kit? That is impressive. And I almost got a hold of this one when it came out. ..... Argh so little time. . . .
The treenails are indeed done with a 0,6 seringe which I soldered into a gas heated soldering iron, works perfect.
See my post about that here.
Hms Alert by Maarten
As I was quite happy with the seringe needle treenails I have made a more permanent tool. The needle I have silver soldered in the spare tip of my gas fueled soldering pen. Ofcourse you can do this with an electric soldering iron, but the gas fueled sedering pen is small, has no wire so very...
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