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

[AllanKP69]

I however have a suspicion that at the time they introduced the dolphin striker with its martingale lines the spritsail topsail idea was abolished,

You are correct the spritsail topsail use came to an end on English ships of war in the early part of the 18th century.

The dolphin striker had six variations between 1794 and 1840. In all cases the striker was square or rectangular, according to Jame Lees in The Masting and Rigging English Ships of War, The number of holes, and later, slots with sheaves, varied from 1 to 5 depending on the year. And then throw in the variations we see in virtually every ship, era, nation, none of this may be correct for Victory.

Allan

 

[Y.T.]

You are correct the spritsail topsail use came to an end on English ships of war in the early part of the 18th century.

Thanks Allan. So, do you think I can leave my model as I have on pictures above - Dolphin striker with its lines is present and spritsail topsail and its yard is absent?

 

[AllanKP69]

Thanks Allan. So, do you think I can leave my model as I have on pictures above - Dolphin striker with its lines is present and spritsail topsail and its yard is absent?

Based on everything you presented and from what I could find I would absolutely leave off the yard. From what I could find dolphin strikers came quite a while after these particular yards went away, at least on English ships.

Allan

 

[Y.T.]

Making jeer triple block strappings. See tutorial I just posted.

Tutorial. Stropping of Served Double-Stropped Jeer Blocks. One Continuous Thread. No CA glue.

I developed a process that I would like to document here so I do not forget how I did it. It can be useful for someone too. I use Domanoff serving machine for this work. I have quite a few pictures to upload. This will be done trough many posts. Please refrain from comments till I am done with...

shipsofscale.com

 

[Tim Green]

Look what a beautiful vintage drafting set I got from eBay. It cost me miserable 70 Canadian dollars with shipping. This is like $50 US. It’s Complete and in almost unused condition. It’s made circa 1945. People at the time were proud of the tools they made. I will use the ruling pens for drafting seams on my silkspan sails.

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Still have my dad's set - also from Canada. And it's well used.

 

[Y.T.]

I acquired an amazing book on Victory rigging. This is the book I was dreaming about when decided to rig my model. Instead of getting one book with pictures showing how to do the job I had to acquire four. None was sufficient to do the job but in combination I was inching ahead. This was extremely difficult task. Longridge texts deciphering appeared most difficult but essential. Many times I threw Longridge book aside having long breaks to recover. Now I finally have one proper handbook for rigging. Whole book is just 260 pages of pictorial diagrams. This is all one needs to do the job. Here it is.

 

[Y.T.]

Here are some pages.

 

[Fish&Chip]

Here are some pages.

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Finally, you received it. Great book as per your pictures. I made a third tried yesterday to buy it and will wait the extra long buying confirmation done by shipping status.

 

[Y.T.]

I bought it on Amazon.com. Amazon.ca. failed to deliver. I canceled twice my order and did it on Amazon USA. It was delivered in 6 days.

 

[Fish&Chip]

Ok.thank you. I will do that right now.

 

[Fish&Chip]

I made it. 12$ cad more extpensive, but duties are included. Very fast shipping showed.

 

[Pfälzer]

Wow, this is a very fine Building

 

[Y.T.]

I changed my avatar. Just is case someone would think that my account was hijacked. This is my very old avatar that I used on many different internet platforms.

 

[oldflyer]

Y.T.

Great find - Just ordered it on Amazon. All of your images from the book made the sale Probably --- NO ---- I won't
build a Victory - way beyond my skill sets - but the book will find a nice place in my library; such as it is.

Cheers,

 

[Fish&Chip]

Y.T. and oldflyer

Received mine too and it is really a good purchase for me as a newbie. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Albert Mary]

Making jeer triple block strappings. See tutorial I just posted.

Tutorial. Stropping of Served Double-Stropped Jeer Blocks. One Continuous Thread. No CA glue.

I developed a process that I would like to document here so I do not forget how I did it. It can be useful for someone too. I use Domanoff serving machine for this work. I have quite a few pictures to upload. This will be done trough many posts. Please refrain from comments till I am done with...

shipsofscale.com

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Smart solution!

 

[Tim Green]

I acquired an amazing book on Victory rigging. This is the book I was dreaming about when decided to rig my model. Instead of getting one book with pictures showing how to do the job I had to acquire four. None was sufficient to do the job but in combination I was inching ahead. This was extremely difficult task. Longridge texts deciphering appeared most difficult but essential. Many times I threw Longridge book aside having long breaks to recover. Now I finally have one proper handbook for rigging. Whole book is just 260 pages of pictorial diagrams. This is all one needs to do the job. Here it is.

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What a lovely book. Got mine yesterday. Not because I plan to build a Victory. But because I want to understand why they used what they used ... so that I have a better idea how to rig something that is not shown in the instructions.

 

[etubino]

Hello Y.T. let me send you this Friendly Reminder...! Your fun club is waiting! Many of us are waiting to see new postings. I´m looking everyday after any new post from your side. I hope though, that you are doing well and that you are about to share any further advancements on The HMS Victory.

Kind Regards

Eduardo Tubino

 

[massimotocco]

you sent a reminder to the wrong person…

 

[Y.T.]

Hello Y.T. let me send you this Friendly Reminder...! Your fun club is waiting! Many of us are waiting to see new postings. I´m looking everyday after any new post from your side. I hope though, that you are doing well and that you are about to share any further advancements on The HMS Victory.

Kind Regards

Eduardo Tubino

Hi, Eduardo! Thank you so much for a friendly reminder. You are my most devoted follower.thank you again.I was not posting anything because there was not too much to post.I was thinking that the work that I’m doing currently would not be that much interesting because it is very repetitive. Most of it was dedicated to preparing the yards with attaching all kinds of blocks to them. For that I had to make some many different sizes of different kinds of blocks, including the blocks for the clew lines with a shoulder, parral ribs and trucks. I also had to attach many different kinds of blocks to the rigging and the body of the hull. For the yards, I still have to do the bracing blocks attached. Desperately thinking, how would be the best way to do it. Next would be attaching the foot ropes and this stirrups on the yards.
Here are some pictures of what I had done so far.