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Lawrence
Hello Ed, I used to buy my supplies from the Model Dock Yard in Cornwall, England, but I hear that they are now closed.
Regards Lawrence
Oliver Cromwell, POF ,Scale 1:48 by Lawrence [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates
Work continues on the Spanker Boom and the Gaff. The little fellows and I have built and installed the ships Gaff Boob, built and installed the Vangs, the Peak Halliard along with the Throat Halliard, and the Guy Pendants. This completes the work on the Spanker for now until my Admiral sews up it's sail. Now we are into the Yard Work.
Regards Lawrence
Work continues on the Spanker Boom and the Gaff. The little fellows and I have built and installed the ships Gaff Boob, built and installed the Vangs, the Peak Halliard along with the Throat Halliard, and the Guy Pendants. This completes the work on the Spanker for now until my Admiral sews up it's sail. Now we are into the Yard Work.
Regards Lawrence
Looks real sweet Lawrence! 
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Don, I thank you for your very kind words. Well we are getting just a bit closer to our YQ- Bluenose build that sits patiently in her received box.Looks real sweet Lawrence!
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Janos, I thank you very much for your visit also for your very kind words.
Regards Lawrence
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates
The little fellows and I have been fairly busy climbing the Mizzen Mast and installing Cross Jack Yard and along with all of it's fittings. We have built and installed the Cross Jack Yard with it's attached working blocks. We have built and installed it's Truss Pendants. Added the Jeers and lower lifting blocks and rigging. We have also added the Stirrups along with it's Foot Ropes.
Regards Lawrence
The little fellows and I have been fairly busy climbing the Mizzen Mast and installing Cross Jack Yard and along with all of it's fittings. We have built and installed the Cross Jack Yard with it's attached working blocks. We have built and installed it's Truss Pendants. Added the Jeers and lower lifting blocks and rigging. We have also added the Stirrups along with it's Foot Ropes.
Regards Lawrence
Canoe21
Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates
A little more to show on our little ship the Oliver Cromwell, the little fellows and I have built and installed her Main Yard, along with it's Truss Pendants, Jeer Blocks upper and lower. We have added the Main Lift Blocks to be completed later. We have also built and installed the Stun sail Booms and support Irons along with the Foot Ropes.
In the process of installing all of this we knocked off two gun ports Doors, My Admiral Bernadette says at this rate with all of these re-duos and set backs the Oliver Cromwell will not be completed until I am 100 years old, scary is it not.
Regards Lawrence
A little more to show on our little ship the Oliver Cromwell, the little fellows and I have built and installed her Main Yard, along with it's Truss Pendants, Jeer Blocks upper and lower. We have added the Main Lift Blocks to be completed later. We have also built and installed the Stun sail Booms and support Irons along with the Foot Ropes.
In the process of installing all of this we knocked off two gun ports Doors, My Admiral Bernadette says at this rate with all of these re-duos and set backs the Oliver Cromwell will not be completed until I am 100 years old, scary is it not.
Regards Lawrence
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Lawrence
Hello Ship Mates
Today I got a lovely gift from a Ship Mate of mine in North Caroline that arrived in the Post Office today . He cut from pear wood a whole bunch of Shroud Cleats, and with no tabs at all saving me many tedious hours of work, Thanks Mike.
Regards Lawrence
Today I got a lovely gift from a Ship Mate of mine in North Caroline that arrived in the Post Office today . He cut from pear wood a whole bunch of Shroud Cleats, and with no tabs at all saving me many tedious hours of work, Thanks Mike.
Regards Lawrence
Love the work your doing Lawrence. You and your spider monkeys are doing a great rigging job your model Sir.
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Lawrence
Hello Mario, I thank you very much for your visit to my build log on the little ship the Oliver Cromwell, also for your very kind words and comments. Yes my little guys are having fun with the rigging, they are getting a little old like me and slowing down a little but the task dose get done.
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The rigging looks superb Lawrence. And who cares if things are going slower or if it takes long? I have a friend on the Dutch forum who says that the enjoyment of model building lies in the build process itself - and I'm sure we all agree with that!
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Lawrence
Hello Heinrich, I thank you for your very kind words. Yes I am enjoying my Oliver Cromwell build very much and the rigging on these ships is so interesting, just to figure our how things worked. My only hang up is that I am itching to start on my YQ - Bluenose, but she will have to wait just a bit longer.
Have you heard any news from YQ on that steering wheel issue, not at all a big issue, just curious that's all.
Regards Lawrence
Just Brilliant. Could be used on a film set, so realistic.
Hi
Looking through your post, I noticed that the first vertical rope of your rat lines are thicker than the rest.
Is this something common in period ships or is just in this particular model.
Sorry for my rigging ignorance.
Sorry to intervene... I assume you are talking about the shrouds (these are the more or less vertical lines, supporting the masts, and the ratlines are connected to them). Yes, the first ones are thicker because they are seized, meaning there is a smaller diameter line twisted around the shroud). On the first shroud this seizing goes to full length, on the other ones only on the top, up to about the top ratline. The aim of this was to protect the shrouds from rubbing to other ropes and sails.
Yes, and Lawrence did a bloody good job on everything, including the rigging and also the seizing!
János
I told you I didn’t know much about the terminology but I sure love to build models.
So, that been said, my next question will be related to the model I’m building.
Maybe you have seen my log about the 1/48 Marisstella 16th Century Ragusian Cog.
Should I also seize my shrouds as well?
Actually it's called serving, the rope that is wrapped around another line to protect it from getting chaffed by a sail or another line, seizing is when a line is tied off to itself or another line, like the ropes that go around a dead eye or a block, after the ropes go around the
dead eyes or blocks, then the rope is laid along side itself and seized together with smaller rope
dead eyes or blocks, then the rope is laid along side itself and seized together with smaller rope
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