La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
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Impressive work. Using various rope- and block sizes gives the model an aura of authenticity.
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Thank you so much for posting such a detailed log, your work is just awesome, you have answered all my questions about French ships from the1800, Now if I can just make mine look like yours I would be a very happy sailor, Fantastic work 
Bobby K
Bobby K
After your message, I tried to do it last night by following your advice on tying yarn and it turned out great...I am grateful for your advice again. I did not use glue and the result was as I wanted... I continue to learn something new every day... It's going great for me.
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@Steef66
@Mirek
@RDN1954
@Bobby K.
@KAYA61
Thank you very much for your encouragement. It's very motivating, especially when it comes to the very tricky work in the rigging. You always have to be extremely careful not to get caught on something.
Also, many thanks to everyone for the likes.
Continuation: Attaching the fore yard - Vergue de misaine - with the running rigging
Attaching the seizings to the slings was child's play compared to tying thimbles to the ends of the truss pendants.
The prepared truss tackles will then be hooked into these thimbles. Therefore, the thimbles could only be tied in afterward. Before doing so, a section of the serving at the rope ends had to be removed.
As already mentioned, I then hooked the prepared truss tackles into these thimbles and the corresponding eyebolts on the cap and led the running ropes down over redirection blocks to the fife rail behind the foremast for belaying.
More on this soon...
@Mirek
@RDN1954
@Bobby K.
@KAYA61
Thank you very much for your encouragement. It's very motivating, especially when it comes to the very tricky work in the rigging. You always have to be extremely careful not to get caught on something.
Also, many thanks to everyone for the likes.
Continuation: Attaching the fore yard - Vergue de misaine - with the running rigging
Attaching the seizings to the slings was child's play compared to tying thimbles to the ends of the truss pendants.
The prepared truss tackles will then be hooked into these thimbles. Therefore, the thimbles could only be tied in afterward. Before doing so, a section of the serving at the rope ends had to be removed.
As already mentioned, I then hooked the prepared truss tackles into these thimbles and the corresponding eyebolts on the cap and led the running ropes down over redirection blocks to the fife rail behind the foremast for belaying.
just gorgeous!!! As always, you can spend hours looking at the details.
Amazing work! So intricate and clean. In fact, one could imagine this isn't even a model, it's a real ship fresh out of the shipyard with lots of macro photos to make it look like a model. Of course I don't believe that, but it is that realistic.
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@serikoff
@Bobby K.
@bowwild
Thank you for your kind comments.
Thanks also to everyone else for the likes.
Continuation: Attaching the fore yard - Vergue de misaine - with running rigging
Following up to my previous post, here are two more pictures and a brief explanation of how to make a seizing for the sling directly on the model.
The first picture shows me holding and securing the two sling ropes together with tweezers on the left. Using the tweezers on the right, I then wrapped the yarn (spun yarn) around the two ropes. I then pulled the yarn through twice between the ropes, perpendicular to the winding. Finally, the end was tucked under one of the two yarns and pulled tight in the middle. I only soaked the free end of the yarn with a tiny amount of superglue. Thin superglue penetrates the yarn well, so that even after trimming off the excess yarn, it is still sufficiently secured.
The goal is to make the superglue completely unnoticeable, which doesn't always work perfectly. It's very important not to get the superglue on the seizing itself. Otherwise, the superglue will negatively affect the appearance of the seizing.
The result can be seen in the second picture:
I hope I made that clear.
To be continued ...
@Bobby K.
@bowwild
Thank you for your kind comments.
Thanks also to everyone else for the likes.
Continuation: Attaching the fore yard - Vergue de misaine - with running rigging
Following up to my previous post, here are two more pictures and a brief explanation of how to make a seizing for the sling directly on the model.
The first picture shows me holding and securing the two sling ropes together with tweezers on the left. Using the tweezers on the right, I then wrapped the yarn (spun yarn) around the two ropes. I then pulled the yarn through twice between the ropes, perpendicular to the winding. Finally, the end was tucked under one of the two yarns and pulled tight in the middle. I only soaked the free end of the yarn with a tiny amount of superglue. Thin superglue penetrates the yarn well, so that even after trimming off the excess yarn, it is still sufficiently secured.
The goal is to make the superglue completely unnoticeable, which doesn't always work perfectly. It's very important not to get the superglue on the seizing itself. Otherwise, the superglue will negatively affect the appearance of the seizing.
The result can be seen in the second picture:
I hope I made that clear.
To be continued ...
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How do you do that? I use a small sewing needle where I cut the eye in half to get a needle that looks like a 2-toothed fork. The glue stick between the tooth and can be transfer to the rope in a tiny amount. Do you have a better way?
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Clear.
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I love these highres images Johann! Love it!
Dirk
Dirk
üstadım bu bagın adı SEİZİNG diye geciyor ,ınternete yazarsan detaylarını bulurusun,yelkenlı gemılerde en cok kullanılan saglam bır bag
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Hello Johann, I have read to the foot of page 4 only, but since I will require several days to catch up I wanted to give my immediate impressions of your work.
I've never seen anything quite like this. I am a novice ship modeller and have been admiring the work of many of the more experienced and skilled members of this forum. Your work on La Creole is something else again. I had no idea that it was possible to work to this high standard.
I do not aspire to such excellence in my own work, I am neither that dedicated nor determined, but now that I know that it's possible to work in the penthouse suite as you do, maybe with some effort I can lift myself out of the basement car park. If were to advance just one or two levels towards La Creole, I would be a very happy modeller.
Thank you for the writing the log so clearly and for the superb photographs which are together teaching me so much.
I've never seen anything quite like this. I am a novice ship modeller and have been admiring the work of many of the more experienced and skilled members of this forum. Your work on La Creole is something else again. I had no idea that it was possible to work to this high standard.
I do not aspire to such excellence in my own work, I am neither that dedicated nor determined, but now that I know that it's possible to work in the penthouse suite as you do, maybe with some effort I can lift myself out of the basement car park. If were to advance just one or two levels towards La Creole, I would be a very happy modeller.
Thank you for the writing the log so clearly and for the superb photographs which are together teaching me so much.
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Johann, I'm now caught up on your wonderful build. Just when I thought you had done all you could to impress with your skills, tying off that thimble with the rope in place, among all the other rigging, is just amazing, just from a dexterity perspective, especially with those giant thumbs!
With your macro photography skills, it's important to have a good manicure.What speaks to the level of your skill is that magnification shows the flaws of most modelers' work; your work looks better under magnification!
Wonderful work!
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The details looks so good, amazing work.