Rope sizes.

Don Case

Don Case

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I'm playing with my rope walk and took a look at Mondfeld to get an idea of what sizes of rope I may need. For those of you that don't have the book there is a chart that relates all the rope sizes back to a percentage of the mainstay which is a percentage of the mast diameter. Anyway, just about every rope on the ship is a different percentage(I exaggerate a bit) but there are a lot of different sizes and they are close together. Like 17%.18%,20% right up to 50%. Obviously at 1:48 there ain't gonna be a lot of difference between 17,18 and 20%. So how many different sizes of scale ropes do you use on a model? Half dozen? More?
Thanks in advance.
 
Don Case said:
I'm playing with my rope walk and took a look at Mondfeld to get an idea of what sizes of rope I may need. For those of you that don't have the book there is a chart that relates all the rope sizes back to a percentage of the mainstay which is a percentage of the mast diameter. Anyway, just about every rope on the ship is a different percentage(I exaggerate a bit) but there are a lot of different sizes and they are close together. Like 17%.18%,20% right up to 50%. Obviously at 1:48 there ain't gonna be a lot of difference between 17,18 and 20%. So how many different sizes of scale ropes do you use on a model? Half dozen? More?
Thanks in advance.
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I don't have a direct answer to your question because it seems to depend on which company you buy a ship from, but there is a spreadsheet circulating by someone named Dan Vadas that calculates all that stuff with a few simple inputs. I can send it to you if you like. Let me know
 
Thanks for the response. I don't have Excell so I can't open spreadsheets but thanks for the offer. I don't think what I'm after is on the spreadsheet. What I want is an idea of how many different sizes of rope modelers in an average build so I know how many to make on my rope walk.
 
Don Case said:
Thanks for the response. I don't have Excell so I can't open spreadsheets but thanks for the offer. I don't think what I'm after is on the spreadsheet. What I want is an idea of how many different sizes of rope modelers in an average build so I know how many to make on my rope walk.
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no troubles at all. If ever you do want this let me know. You can get a free version called OpenOffice which has all the things that Office has and in addition is compatible with Office, so you can open Excel spreadsheets, word documents, etc
 
Thanks I'll take a look at that. I actually think that I have Dan's spreadsheet on my computer somewhere. I downloaded it before I realized I didn't have Excell.
Back to my original question. Could you just look at one of your models and see how many different sizes of rope there is. I've never built a kit so I don't have a clue about what comes in them. Thanks.
 
Don Case said:
Thanks I'll take a look at that. I actually think that I have Dan's spreadsheet on my computer somewhere. I downloaded it before I realized I didn't have Excell.
Back to my original question. Could you just look at one of your models and see how many different sizes of rope there is. I've never built a kit so I don't have a clue about what comes in them. Thanks.
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One kit had 3 sizes and another kit had 6.
I think the kit that had 3 did not take into account the fact that as you go higher up the masts that the ropes should get smaller in diameter. Also the scale was small, I can't remember what it was, so it's possible that it was not practical to go down in size.
 
Hi Don,

Not counting my anchor cable, I created 7 diameters that I used 'routinely'. Building at 1:64 I used the 0.25 mm, 0.35 mm, 0.45 the most. Somewhat less of the 0.55, 0.6, 0.7. Somewhat more of the 0.8 (shrouds and tacks). These sizes are rounded for simplicity. If I needed something else, I created it as a one-off. Hope this helps.
 
So I reviewed the instructions for the Brig Syren on the model shipways site; one of my previous failures. I won't get into that. Anyways, everything is in inches and feet. The scale is 3/16 inches = 1 foot
Here are is what the instructions say:
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Thank you Jack, that will be a big help too. 3/16:=1' is 1:64 so I'll have to juggle numbers but it's good to have something to compare with.
 
Re: "Thanks for the response. I don't have Excell so I can't open spreadsheets but thanks for the offer."

An excel can be sent to you via a pdf of the sheet.
 
Jack Sparrow said:
np. How many line sizes does your kit have?
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Jack Sparrow said:
I don't have a direct answer to your question because it seems to depend on which company you buy a ship from, but there is a spreadsheet circulating by someone named Dan Vadas that calculates all that stuff with a few simple inputs. I can send it to you if you like. Let me know
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If you have the time I would appreciate getting a copy of this spread sheet. Thank you!
 
tomhh said:
Re: "Thanks for the response. I don't have Excell so I can't open spreadsheets but thanks for the offer."

An excel can be sent to you via a pdf of the sheet.
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I'm confused. An Excel program is usually interactive isn't it? ie. you put in some info and it does some math and gives you results. Can a PDF do this somehow?
 
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