USS Constitution 1:70 Scratch

Kurt Konrath said:
Are the carriage tackle tied to aft loop just to hold tension or some other reason?

Your blocks and hooks along with rigging looks great.
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Thank you Kurt. I'm just trying to make it look like it does on the real ship. As you can see in the photo, the end of the tackle is wrapped between hook and block. I will try to do this.

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I would like to show how I produce these 3 mm blocks for those who are interested. I have shared this method before, but I wanted to share it again for friends who do not know. First, I turned the wooden dowel with a diameter of 3 mm into an ellipse bar with my milling machine. Again, using my milling machine, I drilled holes with a diameter of 0.6 mm on this elliptical rod and then cut slots to represent the pulleys. After these procedures, I separated the blocks from each other by cutting them with my circular saw. I got rid of the excess with my sanding machine and cut slots on both sides of the blocks with my milling machine.

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Rigging of the carronades on the spar deck continues.
In the photos the tackle ropes look thicker than they are. I think this happens because the resolution of the photos is reduced when uploading photos to this site.

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The rigging of all the guns are complete and I started making the fife rails. First I fabricated ridding bitt knees. To make the stancions I shaped the 4x4 mm pear bar with a file on the lathe then I opened holes and channels to represent the sheaves.

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I do so enjoy watching your progress, solutions and techniques. Your work both challenges and informs me of ways to proceed and do better work. It opens up the realm of the possible. So, thanks. The only downside is that when you complete this project it will deprive me of the regular opportunity to be informed and instructed by you! I hope you have another planned. Thumbsup :D

Pete
 
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