Now she’s starting to look like a ship. I’ll have to cut some rigging and redo it, though. I tighten up one line and another gets loose.
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Now she’s starting to look like a ship. I’ll have to cut some rigging and redo it, though. I tighten up one line and another gets loose.
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Well that may be due to changing winds each time you work on her, they do strange things to lines and sails....ha ha.
It is looking great!
It is looking great!
I need more bits and belaying pins! The kit didn’t supply enough for almost complete rigging. (I’m skipping sheets, halyards, and buntlines already.)
I did do sheets and tacks for the corse sails, though. They’re more visible than some of the others. 
Good morning Vic. Wonderful progress. Have a blessed 2025. Cheers Grant.
Thanks, Grant. A blessed new year to you and yours too.
I finally started to work on the little girl again. The pinrails have broken pins, and there aren’t enough of them. They are almost useless, so I have to get creative on how to belay lines. 
I’ve run some of the lines to the channels. I hate doing that, but I’ve run out of options.
I’ve run some of the lines to the channels. I hate doing that, but I’ve run out of options.
This tool really helps in belaying lines. 
I thought stringing deadeyes was tough enough. Repairing them after accidentally cutting the lanyards is even more frustrating. 
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
That looks like something Doc K would have laying around, a nice dental pick to hold lines.
I was lucky in my Military Duty, working Medical Supply, I had friends in dental and surgery clinics who donated broken or damaged tools unfit for human use. I was also able to get many hemostats from disposable suture kits, and the sterile supply shop would clean them up for me and give them to me.
All fixed.
That was a nice source for ship building Tools.
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Our ER guys called the throw away kits Pakistani Stainless, as that is where the kits tools come from, good for use, but didn't stand up to multiple re-sterilization processes, so they were once and done for medical uses. Most kits had hemostats, tweezers and single use scapples which I didn't get. They would last 6-9 months of model use before joints failed or they wouldn't stay locked, but for free not bad use.
It’s beginning to take shape. Started work on the mizzenmast. 
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Nice model, Vic. She's really coming together. I like these old Scientific kits. A lot can be done to expand on them. Good bones. 
Pete
Pete