Glue often ruins the look of line when stropping blocks and securing knots. I'm with you in that I would like to learn better methods of preserving the color of lines that are secured using glue. I've used medium CA sparingly, but PVA glue diluted slightly with water in much more invisible, but you have to be patient and let it dry. CA glue soaks into the fiber of the line and hardens, so the line loses all flexibility where the glue has penetrated, and if you bend the hardened line, the fibers of the line break. Yellow carpenter PVA will darken light tan running rigging lines a bit. Elmer's white glue is almost transparent if thinned a little bit and applied with a brush.
As for tying blocks, here are some ideas:
As for tying blocks, here are some ideas:
Hi. Take also a look there.
Thx
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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Darivs, thanks for show us the pulleys and tyes drawings. This item really makes a difference in the visual quality of the models.
For finishing, I've also used the diluted white PVA glue , it works very well.
No problem. There are lots of useful modelling how-to pictures on the web. I've collected quite a few for reference for ship features. Here are some of them. These were instrumental in learning how to make the basic parts of my first ship model.
Wow! Good stuff Kurt
Excellent Kurt. I just grabbed a dozen images. Thank you for sharing your finds.