Trabi,

I really like the camo on the Tiger. It's coming along extremely well! And it sounds like your hiking trip was lots of fun. 

The hull and turret are primed and I am now moving along to the construction of the Friuls. I got one side done in 4 days, at the expense of my battered left index finger and thumb. It's amazing how uncomfortable just holding a lumpy piece of metal can be! Hopefully I can get a move on, I'd love to get this thing to the "real" painting and weathering stage soon. 

Thats looking really nice Moff. I know what you mean abotu Fruils. I havce been at my current set over a wek, i manage about a dozen links at a time, but thats why i start them early.

She looks pretty darn good to me Moff, everything looks perfect in the photos. 

Moff,

It looks great, actually too great... Like a big piece of chocolate, and I'm hungry! lol

I've never built Fruils before, but I have built a set of Modelkasten tracks and they were time consuming. But they did look good when completed.

Keep up the great work, Moff. I'm looking forward to more!

Bish,

Here is the Eugen's rigging so far. I still have some more to install and some trimming to do. I'm changing the color from black to more of a steel. The flag lanyards may change to a lighter color as well. I don't like the way the black stands out.

That looks impressive already. So another question, how do you know which wire are for what. I take it most ships have a pretty similar layout. Is there any sort of guide for this.

Pretty much a guy wire just strings from the superstructure or mast to a mast or yardarm and are tight.

Antenna aerials will stretch from mast or yard to mast or yard and will sometimes have a wire attached to it running down to somewhere on the superstructure. These will be somewhat tight and the wire from the aerials to the superstructure will hang a little. These aerials will sometime be of some strange configuration.

Flag lanyards will typically run from the yard straight down to the bridge wing or aft flag locker. They should be of a cotton material and lighter in color than the guy and antenna wires.

When I was in the Coast Guard as an Electronic Tech, one of my jobs were the low frequency antennas and maintenance. The low frequency antennas are what we called the "Long Wires" because of their length and were used mainly for code and other long distance communications.

Gee, I know nothing about rigging but she looks fantastic to me Steve. 

Steve,

The rigging looks exceptional! This is the one part of ship building that does intimidate me. Not necessarily the action of doing the rigging, but where they all go. if I had a diagram, I'd feel more confident.

Steve, thanks very much, i will note all that down.

Bruce, you and me both. But on the plus said,someone would have to be a real expert to tell you you had it wrong.

hogfanfs

Steve,

The rigging looks exceptional! This is the one part of ship building that does intimidate me. Not necessarily the action of doing the rigging, but where they all go. if I had a diagram, I'd feel more confident.

 

Here are some examples of the reference pictures I use. I don’t know which ship the last picture is, probably a prewar BB with the tapered bow, but it gives an idea of flag lanyards.

Thanks Steve, I figured there would be some good information for rigging on the internet. And research is quite a bit of the fun in building. 

And Bish, I agree, I probably would not get called out for making a mistake. But, there is always that little bit a fear. But, that won't keep me from moving forward with a build. I have a 1/350 Tamiya Bismarck that I'm thinking of starting after the first of the year. 

Steve: The rigging work you have done is really spectacular. Very inpressive. You know, it only makes sense to me to "get the look" of the rigging rather than try and put every single wire on.

Moff: Nice work. The primer sure looks good. the patience and effort you put into those Fruils appeared to have paid off nicely. They look sharp.

Those HGW harnesses look awesome Brandon!

This is where I'm hung up on my Corsair. Started with the Eduard PE seat and harnesses and I was having a bear of a time getting the shoulder straps to bend up, around and down the cross bar I made. So, I set thet aside and tried out a Yahu PE seat that comes with cloth adhesive straps and PE buckles that you thread on. Finally got the seat folded and the harnesses together only to find that altogether the seats a bit large as well as the buckles as to appear out of scale. So, I'm back to the Eduard setup. I'm lowering the cross bar to ease the assembly. It actually looks better. 

hogfanfs

I would like to apologize to everyone in the GB. I haven't worked on my Type 4 since February. I haven't even sat at my work bench for 4 months. Anyway, recently I dug out a different kit to get the juices flowing again. I'm close to completing this kit, and when I am, I'll be jumping back into the the Type 4. Bare with me, I'll have some WIP pictures soon!

Don't worry Bruce, as you are not alone in the slow participation department. I'm not lighting up this GB either. Seems to be a never ending stream of distractions and obligations that keep me from spending much time at the bench. Right now it's a race to see who can pick our apricots faster, me or the squirrels.

Trabi: You're doing some sweet work there yourself. The Tiger is coming out excellent. And what a cool thing to come across on your hike. Thanks for sharing the pics and link.

Congrats on finishing up the rigging. Looks astounding.

Very sorry to hear you will not make SLC. I'm in the process of seeing if I can swing it at work. I was very much looking forward to meeting you. Nonetheless, I do hope all is well with you and your family. Please take care.

She's turning out great Steve. Wish I could see some your work in person but I'm enjoying just looking at the photos. 

@Joe Rix,

Thank you sir for understanding.

@Steve,

Great job on the rigging! I'm in the same boat as Cliff, I would really love to see your builds in person!

Great job on the rigging Steve, and thanks for the close up pic, it really shows well how you have done that. That does not look as dauting as i thought it would.

And guys, there still half a year yet, i am still trying to get to my second build, plenty of distractions for me as well.

Steve,

The boom looks really good!Looks like this one is very close to being finished! I can't imagine this build not scoring well with the judges at IPMS.

Thanks Bruce,

Unfortunately it's going to have to wait till next year's contest. I just don't have the funds this year. [:'(

I know you're getting tired of hearing this but she looks great Steve. 

(I think I need to program a macro for that and save myself some typing) 

Personally I'd go with the stain Steve but it should look good both ways. I mean people are supposed to be looking at the model not the base right?!?

One of the guys in our club does an interesting thing with his bases though. He's done a couple USN ships in the dazzle camo scheme. He then paints the base in the same scheme, it looks really nice and compliments the model. Not sure it would work as well on basic grey. Though I suppose you could paint the top grey, the lower part dark red, and add a nice bootstripe like her hull? 

LOL, yeah a grey base. I agree, I think I will go with stain. The camo thing sounds intresting, I'll have to look into that, especially since I have somewhere around 15 to 20 ships on my want list. 

Thanks for that tip Steve, i will keep that in mind. Thats the first time i have ever heard of a ship being a he.