HMS Royal William 1719 1:55 by OlegM

I am a big fan of your work - I love the photos with the stern and the galleries - great perspectives
 
There are so many beautiful things about your build it is impossible to mention them all. Little things that many modelers miss like the wooden bands above and below the wooldings are a delight to see. Also the fact that there are no belaying pins which is correct for a British ship of 1719. Battens running fore and aft on the gratings and properly sized ratlines are very well done. And the list goes on. Kudos!!!
Allan
 
 
OlegM said:
I finally finished with external planking and treenails. I treated the lower part with oil to prevent it from humidity distortions. Now the diary is over (I'm building the ship since last May) and I will continue to post in real time at the speed of actual progress

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What oil did you use to coat the body, how many times and what was the interval between coats? Very good job!
 
Your photo above in post #611 is clear evidence of the blocks and such that go on the yards and thus why it is easier pre-rig before hanging them on the masts.
Allan
 
serikoff said:
What oil did you use to coat the body, how many times and what was the interval between coats? Very good job!
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It is danish oil, 1 coat everywhere except underwater planking, which I coated twice with an interval of couple months.
After that a bithumen diluted with white spirits, 1 coat, applied at leat couple of months after the oil
 
OlegM said:
It is danish oil, 1 coat everywhere except underwater planking, which I coated twice with an interval of couple months.
After that a bithumen diluted with white spirits, 1 coat, applied at leat couple of months after the oil
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Have you ever used teak oil? I'm making some samples right now. I'm also planning to use bitumen, like Shevelev did.

And can you tell me how you cover it with bitumen, what kind, what concentration. And most importantly, what method. I'm trying to repeat after Shevelev, but either the concentration is low and it doesn't color, or it's dark right away. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
 
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Lifts (топенанты)? No, I don't think so. Topgallant lifts are on the photo, as usual. Royal sails? No, there should be no royal sails at this time, and there's no other attributes of these sails present.
Maybe it's leech lines, which didn't have blocks on the yard and went directly to the trestletrees? That's why they are directly attached to the yard on the model due to absence of sails (line bowlines)

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That appears to be where the buntlines for the sail are temporarily tied to the yard when the sail was removed. @OlegM : The buntlines are those attached to the foot (bottom edge) of the sail, whereas the leech lines were attached to the leeches of the sail, which are the side edges. When the sails are removed, the running rigging which controls the sails (clew lines, sheets, bowlines, leechlines, and buntlines) are either removed or left in places and belayed ini a variety of ways. Models without sails which have these lines stored on the masts and yards are confusing to those tryin to discern what the lines do, because their purposes are not evident without the sails being fitted and deployed. This is one of the most confusing things in learning to rig a square rigged ship model. It would be nice if there was a book with illustrations similar to Lennarth Petersson's books which showed examples of the running rigging both with sails deployed and with sails removed. It would make modeling a lot easier to learn! Usually, we each have to figure this puzzle out on our own using multiple sources and studying the individual lines, how they are rove, and what they do.

IMHO it is far easier to understand the rigging with the sails fitted and deployed on the yards.
 
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