I did mine like your photo but couldnt see the forward blocks when the deck is on. How was the shipping time with Chuck? I have been having bad luck with model expo
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Longer ship times than I'd like, round about a week or so and that's quicker than Model Expo.
Did you open up the most forward gun port or are you talking about the second one from the front, still under the forecastle?
From what I have read the very front ones were not used due to no room for recoil with the bowsprit , I ended up not openinmg any of the covered gun ports. Thinking back and watching yours I would have
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It's a lot of work displaying cannon in all those covered ports. Besides the logistics and expense of the materials not provided with the kit, there is building the port covers themselves. The kit provided cast covers, I think, are perfectly fine if they're closed. But if they're open the only real option is scratch built. But I've had some fun doing them.
You are 100% correct about the logistics and expense, just wish I could get thru one stage and not run out of something and have to wait for the snail mail. love how your hinged gun ports are turning out.
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It just doesn't seem like there are enough belay points on this ship. There are no pin racks or fife rails anywhere except at the front rail and the aft forecastle. Are there?
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When I started I was thinking the same thing but if you count the mast cleats and the bitts you have enough but you have to plan out your rigging. One of the things I found was that eyebolts with blocks should be attached together, I would tie the block to the eyebolt do the rest of the rigging for that line then attach the eyebolt to the deck then tighten everything up. some of the best reference I have found is the books from Lennarth Petersson.
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TAKM, need to hit you up on your thoughts, I rigged my shrouds and dead eyes all in black line then I started looking around the web half I see the lanyard in black and the other in tan what are your thoughts?
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When I was in San Diego I visited the maritime museum where HMS Surprise (Master and Commander movie) is tied up. I took dozens of pics of the rigging to help in my Bounty build. That ship has tarred black rope for the dead eyes. See the attached pic
All three of my builds, however, call for tan rope for the deadeyes. Chuck Passaro is quite specific in his practicum about using tan thread. I honestly don't think there is a wrong approach but personally I like the contrast of the tan rope for deadeyes with the black shrouds.
I started to search the web photos of the constitution and constellation show black but the victory show tan, maybe a nationality preference?? Also I pulled the trigger on Chucks blocks I called model expo today and asked about the back order and after 3 weeks still nothing
Just to jump in here, you guys are right on the deadeyes you see many rigged both ways tan & black, However the tan will show-off the rigging more, I say builder’s choice.
On the rigging sheet for the Snake you will or already found some of those little red lines don’t have a termination point, also its easy miss lines on the sheet because the fore mast is rigged for sail and the main without. I had to add more cleats to the masts, plus extra belaying pins and several deck cleats, My biggest problem was many of the lines where already set up when I discovered they had no place to go, making for some retrigging so they would bend to a suitable termination place, we all know what a pain it can be trying to redo something in a mass of lines and shrouds, as your seeing there not space around the main & the bits, like said above I rigged first to the eye bolt then attached to the deck, for several lines I simply had to add rings to the bits just to get all the lines around the main without it looking like a tangled mess., my best advise is check and recheck the rigging plans, I ended up marking the best guess termination point on the Rigg sheet , because I knew I would have to add something and or move the point to an open space. Anyway just my spin on things after going thru all this during my build MOG
On the rigging sheet for the Snake you will or already found some of those little red lines don’t have a termination point, also its easy miss lines on the sheet because the fore mast is rigged for sail and the main without. I had to add more cleats to the masts, plus extra belaying pins and several deck cleats, My biggest problem was many of the lines where already set up when I discovered they had no place to go, making for some retrigging so they would bend to a suitable termination place, we all know what a pain it can be trying to redo something in a mass of lines and shrouds, as your seeing there not space around the main & the bits, like said above I rigged first to the eye bolt then attached to the deck, for several lines I simply had to add rings to the bits just to get all the lines around the main without it looking like a tangled mess., my best advise is check and recheck the rigging plans, I ended up marking the best guess termination point on the Rigg sheet , because I knew I would have to add something and or move the point to an open space. Anyway just my spin on things after going thru all this during my build MOG
I think why we see some black and some tan is depended on how many times or how long they were rigged (To set up the lanyards used with dead-eyes, a suitable grease such as tallow is first applied to the holes. ) quoted from wikipedia
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That makes sense, you would need some type of grease to be able to really cinch those ropes down tight.
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That's the one! Lemme know if you start on that before I do.