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

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Are you intending on making a proper display case
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No. It would be too expensive and not necessary at this time. Most important to me is just to protect it from grease and dust. Besides a display case with glass or even a plexiglass would be around a thousand dollars. See no point. I am the only one to look at this model. No one to show it to.
 
Y.T. said:
No. It would be too expensive and not necessary at this time. Most important to me is just to protect it from grease and dust. Besides a display case with glass or even a plexiglass would be around a thousand dollars. See no point. I am the only one to look at this model. No one to show it to.
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I am guessing that you are going to use some clear or translucent plastic over your frame?
 
Now working on standing rigging I still overcome some little obstacles. I will try to elaborate on this in following posts. Of course if anyone is still interested.
 
Hi, everyone, I am still with standing rigging. Issue is there are so many rigging items interconnected with everything. All I wanted is to fully rig the front mast, top mast and top gallant masts so I at least am finished with the front mast. Well. One must follow the sequence of what goes first when doing this. I ended up chased into the corner. The top gallant stay has to be installed on the bowsprit-jibboom-flying jibboom assembly which in turn had its own sequence of rigging installation. This ended up in necessity to install the spritsail yard. Issue is I wanted to have the sails also installed. So before I have a spritsail yard installed I must rig it fully and also have the sail installed on it. Here I am now, learning from scratch of how to make sails in scale 1:90.

Look at attached picture. The three standing rigging ropes (travelling guy, guy pendant and flying jibboom guy) are going through some three collars and thimbles mounted on sides of spritsail yard.

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Making sails in 1:90 scale is a big issue for me as I want the model to be looking to full scale. This is why my yards look so thin. First thought was of making sails from light cotton batiste fabric. I was thinking of getting a sewing machine for stitching the sails. This idea went to a trash bin. In this forum I was reassured that any batiste would not look any close to scaled sail canvas due to its thickness and too thick threads it is woven from. I agreed. Than what?
 
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It appeared that using a Silkspan can get me to what I am looking for. On this forum I was referred to a booklet:

" The Fully Framed Model, HMN Swan Class Sloops 1767 - 1780 Volume IV - Sail Making Supplement by David Antscherl..."

This cost me $5 to download. I got experience from it for $1000.
 
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Silkspan is a sort of plant made paper used extensively in aero plane modelling. It has good property to sag when wet and tightening around aero plane model body parts when it dries. It also has some good degree of rigidity and resilience when painted with acrylic paint. This makes it a good candidate for a sail making. I started with creating a topic on this forum asking for a sewing machine for sail stitching. The topic went on and on till I decided to stay away from fabric made sails. Here I am about to show what I had discovered.

The link to this topic is here:

Looking for sewing machine brand and model for making sails

Hi, I am looking for a sewing machine brand and model for making sails in 1:96 scale. It should be not expensive but high quality sewing machine. It should be able to handle very light weight cotton fabric (batiste), have adjustable stitch length up to zero. No need for any but straight type of...
shipsofscale.com
 
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In above mentioned topic I was advised of so many tips and techniques I can use when making a Silkspan sail. I tried almost all of them. There is a great video there by Tom Lauria on how he makes his sails. I recommend it to all to view. When I compared the video with what is written in the booklet I mentioned above, I had inclination rather to go by the booklet.
So I made a wooden frame with an inner insert cut out. The frame is used for stretching a sheet of Silkspan when wet so it is painted afterwards. On the picture a sheet of paper is located wet on the frame and taped around with masking tape. It is now dry and tight on the frame as drum skin.

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Then, one must paint the paper sheet with paint to have it looking as the sail. I mixed white acrylic with yellow ochre, diluted it with water and applied it on this assembly. First time I did this with a roller having wood insert in and the insert covered with a baking paper sheet (so the paint does not stick to the wooden insert as some advise went). It was not good. The parchment paper expanded, wrinkled and made my Silkspan paper also wrinkled accordingly. When I took the insert out my Silkspan had all the wrinkles imprinted. It was not acceptable. I tried to fix the situation rolling the painting roller around the sheet from both sides. This was a totally bad move. The Silkspan got torn under the roller pressure. I stopped immediately.

Terrible picture below.

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