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

Y.T. said:
Note that before applying the product you must very well degrease the brass parts with alcohol or / and acetone. If parts were soldered, they must be totally cleaned from any flux. Flux removal can be done with acids. I use this:

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You can use Citric Acid for this job too, available as inexpensive dry powder in many places. Non-toxic and as green as it gets. If modelling gives you lemons, you can make lemonade too.
 
I have just found this build thread...As I was starting to do my own... It's top drawer YT Chapeaux!

I have just one comment. The first three pages of your build log are missing the majority of photographs, they just don't appear. Perhaps it is me? Perhaps others have the same issue?

(Okay! 2 comments)... Continue wth the great documentation and commentary of your build... it's a great source of encouragement and guidance, not least with the positive and diverse comments offering advice too.

All the best.
 
Great work indeed

Another youtube video about this ship is at;

How an 18th Century Sailing Warship Works​

from Animagraffs (his video would not load here).??
Go to youtube and just copy and paste the above notation - Very much worth your time....
 
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Victory rigging is going extremely difficult for me. My problem is I cannot do something I do not understand. It takes sometimes weeks for me to understand where and how some line starts and ends and their function. Comprehensive one source for Victory rigging doesn’t exist. I obtained and use 4 books to decipher each single part of rigging at a time. Most of the times what is shown in one book is obscure for understanding. Then I must use other three to finally exclaim “eureka , I got it”. Here’s an example. I struggled to understand a bowsprit standing rigging. I was looking for hours at great picture in McGowan book (most valuable book I have for this purpose by the way) and couldn’t get it. I read the verbal description of it in Longridge book about 20 times (this is the most obscure reading I ever had as it also goes with no pictures most of the time). Then I was looking onto diagrams in McKay book intermittently. Well I finally got it.

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I find that bowsprit rigging is the most confusing of all. I have all these books inc Petersson's, & find they often contradict oneanother!
Stuart
 
I must note that learning and practicing this amazing knot was a game changer for my rigging work. It speeds up the process about 10 times for me. If I did not re-discover it, I would continue hating a rigging work and probably never finished my Victory rigging. Here is a link to the topic of tying these knots. I believe they are called a "python knots" by someone.

A way of seizing

Hi all. As a long time ship modeler and member in quite forums, I keep seeing that the issue of an easy way of seizing, is most wanted. It was also for me but after many experiments, I ended up to the below method. See what I mean. As many of you, I also like fishing, so I came across the tool...
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Y.T. said:
Also below is a very important information that helped me to use a CA glue. I am severely allergic to CA. Today the CA is an essential to perform any rigging work. . This information helped me to minimize my allergy problems. Many thanks to "EdT" for providing this info.

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Yuri, good afternoon.
I also suffered from allergies to CA.
I have been using this and have had no allergies for 6 months now. Or Loctite 460a8881.jpg
 
Y.T. said:
Jib boom and flying jib boom travellers. I didn’t solder any of these parts. Just formed them.

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I have seen these in one of your previous posts (drawings) and now I see the finished product. Outstanding beyond belief! Your skills are way up there. You are most likely one of the best modeler's I focus on, other than some of this guy from Minnesota who I believe has never slept more than two hours a night in his life. Yes, Justin, you! Alias "Darivs Architect." Did I spell that correctly? Cheers to all. Be safe and enjoy the rope you cut by accident.
All of the research you throw out there is amazing. I still have to mess with my coffee maker every morning, to get it just right.
 
Y.T. said:
Finished:
1) gratings around main mast. By the way Mamoli manual calls for them to be proud of decking. On real ship gratings are level with decking.
2) large hatch in main deck - I edged it with some strips as it was ugly as it was.




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Y.T. said:
Finished:
1) gratings around main mast. By the way Mamoli manual calls for them to be proud of decking. On real ship gratings are level with decking.
2) large hatch in main deck - I edged it with some strips as it was ugly as it was.




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Well, a bit late in responding to this tread....grating on any deck are not flash with the decks planking...have a look at the picture

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