Hi. I am interested in how people are rigging their models when their building design is just described as in monographs as author Bordeaux of this and that ship. I had never owned a monograph as this. Do these books have comprehensive descriptions of how to rig the model?
I am asking this as I am building HMS Victory and now I am at rigging work. The hull is not a problem at all. It can be built using just one book: The 100 gun ship Victory by John McKay. This book has very good tables with all rigging items named and sizes required. It however has no details of how the rigging items look like and how they must be applied.
For better understanding of how the rigging looks like I use wonderful book The Anatomy of Nelsons Ships by N. Longridge. This book is really good but makes my brain to explode with detailed verbal descriptions. It has however very few pictures helping to create a model. I sometimes spend weeks trying to understand what the fellow wanted to say and to bring the information from this book into a real action of laying just one piece of rope on my model. (would not it be a million times easier if he just drew a simple sketch instead).
When reading Longridge and McKay it is not enough for me to understand what is a next step I should take with my model, I refer to incredibly good book HMS VICTORY by Alan McGowan. This one fortunately has no descriptive texts but only has wonderful set of rigging drawings. Drawings are very good but not always allow me to understand right away how the rope described in previous two books should be applied on my model.
So this is how I am struggling bouncing between three books and going baby steps ahead with the model. I however am confident that these three books have enough information to finish my Victory model whatever difficult and time consuming it is.
I am interested if other ships being built by the modelers have enough information on how to make the rigging on their ships. I am especially interested if the ship monograph books have sufficient rigging information.
I am asking this as I am building HMS Victory and now I am at rigging work. The hull is not a problem at all. It can be built using just one book: The 100 gun ship Victory by John McKay. This book has very good tables with all rigging items named and sizes required. It however has no details of how the rigging items look like and how they must be applied.
For better understanding of how the rigging looks like I use wonderful book The Anatomy of Nelsons Ships by N. Longridge. This book is really good but makes my brain to explode with detailed verbal descriptions. It has however very few pictures helping to create a model. I sometimes spend weeks trying to understand what the fellow wanted to say and to bring the information from this book into a real action of laying just one piece of rope on my model. (would not it be a million times easier if he just drew a simple sketch instead).
When reading Longridge and McKay it is not enough for me to understand what is a next step I should take with my model, I refer to incredibly good book HMS VICTORY by Alan McGowan. This one fortunately has no descriptive texts but only has wonderful set of rigging drawings. Drawings are very good but not always allow me to understand right away how the rope described in previous two books should be applied on my model.
So this is how I am struggling bouncing between three books and going baby steps ahead with the model. I however am confident that these three books have enough information to finish my Victory model whatever difficult and time consuming it is.
I am interested if other ships being built by the modelers have enough information on how to make the rigging on their ships. I am especially interested if the ship monograph books have sufficient rigging information.
