The Norske Love" by Noël Luc Build log

[Noël Luc]

I like the progress of your assembly, very accurate and neat. However, if you don't mind, I think the gun rigging is slightly off your nice ship. Despite the rigging blocks and rigging ropes are out of scale, you have used the blocks incorrectly. I think rigging a gun, specifically on a small scale, is a challenging task so they look OK. Sometimes, I don't even bother to fully rig the guns, and use the breeching line only. This should be a much better appearance compared to an oversized or incorrect rigging, IMHO

Again, I hope you don't mind the critics, as I understand how much time you've spent rigging those guns.

Hi Jimsky, don't worry that I can't handle criticism!! I don't see this as criticism, I see this as help for making a nice and well made scale model! This is my first ship and I knew in advance that I would make mistakes! Good that there are people who help me prevent or correct these mistakes! Earlier in my build log I mentioned that my wife helped me with the rigging! It won't be pleasant if I tell her that I gave the wrong scale of blocks and ropes (oops)!! She did indeed work on that for days!
The blocks are 7mm long, if I multiply that by the scale of the model 1/75 then I get 525mm this is more than half a meter or about 20.66 inch. I don't know how big the blocks are on a real ship but this seems way too big to me! I should have made this calculation in advance!
Now the question is what I'm going to do. I have already searched on the internet for many pictures of model ships and some of them also had cannons where many blocks and ropes of the cannons were very close to each other and that is indeed not so nice and too much!
When the time comes that I will mount the cannons on the ship I will see how it looks and if that is not ok then I will remove the ropes! I hope with that decision my marriage will still stand! (joke)!
Can you tell me what "breeching" is? and what you want to say with IMHO?

 

[Jimsky]

I am glad you've responded to my post and treated it more as help rather than criticism.

IMHO (In My Humble Opinion)

In the Navy, "breeching ropes" refers to a sturdy rope used to control the recoil of a cannon on a ship by attaching it to the gun's rearmost part (cascabel) and securing it to the ship's structure, essentially preventing the gun from flying backward after firing; essentially acting as a brake against the recoil force during firing on a historic naval vessel.
Key points about breeching ropes:

• Function: To restrain the backward movement of a cannon after firing.
  
  
• Attachment point: The rope is typically wrapped around the "cascabel," the knob at the rear of the cannon barrel.
  
  
• Historical context: Primarily used on sailing ships with large cannons, where managing recoil was crucial.

Check this out:

Question about cannon breeching lines

Hi, New to wooden ships, and currently doing the HMS Fly. Just started detailing the cannons and have a question about the breeching lines. I see photos of cannons with the breech line wrapped around the Cascable and others where the breech line goes through a loop on top of the Cascable. What...

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Here are some photos from the model made by Dan our member @dafi




Hope the provided information will help a bit, and should keep you busy for quite some time reading & learning

 

[Noël Luc]

Thanks Jim for the pictures and additional explanation!
In the meantime I finished the sides with the openings for the 4 cannons on the front deck!