HMS Victory by Y.T.- Mamoli - 1:90 scale

[Y.T.]

Here we go and I finally did dead eye chains. Hurrah . Unfortunately this is true only on one side so far.

 

[PT-2]

Here we go and I finally did dead eye chains. Hurrah . Unfortunately this is true only on one side so far.

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Those deadeye chain plates look great with their taught and uniformly set placement. Rich

 

[Y.T.]

Delete this please as I can’t.

 

[PT-2]

Here we go and I finally did dead eye chains. Hurrah . Unfortunately this is true only on one side so far.

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Question for my curiosity... how were the gold scroll and lines on the black background board above the deadeyes done?????? they look perfect!!!!! Rich

 

[Y.T.]

Y.T. - I can’t tell you how much

Thank you so much Scofiro for very nice feedback.

 

[Bryian]

Beautiful work Y.T.

 

[Y.T.]

Question for my curiosity...

This was done with wood profile and the cast "curls" provided with the kit. Then it was painted over with black paint and highlighted with gold paint.

 

[Y.T.]

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[PT-2]

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Excellent painting job with precise crisp edges and no spiderweb creepers. RIch

 

[Y.T.]

Excellent painting job

Thanks. Using just a painting brush and occasionally the masking tape.

 

[PT-2]

Thanks. Using just a painting brush and occasionally the masking tape.

That must have been a very small and fine pointed brush. RIch

 

[shota70]

it's looks very impressive and beautiful

 

[Heinrich]

YT my friend - she is really looking the part now. There is still NOTHING that touches a big ship-of-the-line in the impressive stakes!

 

[Y.T.]

My first exercises with rigging.

 

[PT-2]

My first exercises with rigging.

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Nicely done on that small gun carriage with smooth falls in and out of the blocks. Rich

 

[Y.T.]

2 mm blocks were purchased from Falkonet on eBay. Hooks are self made. Ropes are also self made.

 

[PT-2]

2 mm blocks were purchased from Falkonet on eBay. Hooks are self made. Ropes are also self made.

Nicely done. Rich

 

[Stevedownunder]

In order to better understand curvatures of the hull I install "spiling battens". Spiling battens I use are thin wood strips which are straight and do not want to easily bend sideways. I use 0.5 x 5 mm wood strips. I lay them in such a way that they are not forced laterally whatsoever. I do so as I do not have intention to do lateral bending on any of the planks. I also do not plan making any of laterally curved planks with cutting plank pieces out of sheet wood material (too expensive, too much work and it is hardly a way historical shipwrights built their hulls - here I can be very wrong, but I do not know differently). I use a simplest planking technique.

The battens are simply attached to bulkheads with masking tape as you can see on pictures below. Masking tape was used instead of pins as it does not split my wood spiling battens.

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Hi YT,

Another name for those battens is "fairing battens".

Great progress, your build log puts me off buying this kit.

Cheers,
Stephen.

 

[PT-2]

2 mm blocks were purchased from Falkonet on eBay. Hooks are self made. Ropes are also self made.

What size thread did you start with in your rope walk to get the finished (three strand possibly) line? Nicely walked. Rich

 

[Y.T.]

What size thread did you start with in your rope walk

I use this rope walk. See picture.


The thread is this one. It’s very thin. I don’t know what its diameter is. It results into 0.2 mm diameter rope when worked from three threads.


Since then I decided I want a bit thicker rope for my cannon rigging. I made new rope of 0.27 mm diameter from 2 x 3 rope construction of same thread. See the difference.