HMS victory build

got some more work done on the fors shroud's , and the bobstay's

Steve, you are a very,very talented model builder & I am playing at it, but believe me I enjoy doing that still. Keep it up, it is beautiful.

cheer's gene , finally got all the shroud's and stay's done .

Fantastic work Steve....great siezing work.

Rob

Moving along nicely Steve, really looks good mate!!

Michael D

thank's gentlemen , appreciate the nice words . I just wish they would fix the e-mail issue , feel's like i've been cut off .

using dafi's , PE , I've installed the rail's on the top's , with 1mmx1mm railing and 2-5mm x ,5mm styrene on the bottom

had to fill the bottom of the mast caps , so I can insert the eyebolt's .

Don't your toes get cold on that tile floor?

Fabulous work.  Look forward to your updates.  Your work inspires me with many ideas for my Connie build.  Keep up the good work.

Bob

thank's bob . no mate , it's a piece of lino , over the carpet monster , much easier to find stuff . 

glued some brass rod inbetween halve's of the top mast's , to stiffen them up .

also started some work , with the block's on the mast top's

Just found this thread and all I can say is Wow! Great work Steve.

Love it when the rigging starts!  Absolutely awesome!

Dave

steve5

thank's bob . no mate , it's a piece of lino , over the carpet monster , much easier to find stuff . 

 

Totally inspiring work on the rigging! Your patience and deft workmanship keeps my interest in building another sailing ship alive.

thankyou gentlemen appreciate the comment's , 

gmorrison , that all depend's on how sharp they are .

mike , I would to see you do a ship , or any type of boat mate .

could I get some oppinion's please , I've started the futtoch shroud's and I'm undecided on whether to do the same colour ratline's or a lighter colour to make them stand out , I would appreciate some comment's please guy's

I would keep the ratlines the same color as the shrouds.  Any image of any real vessels shows them just as tared as the shrouds.  They are part of the standing rigging.

My 2 cents.

Rob

I am no expert, but I'd always been under the impression that standing rigging was tarred and black, while running rigging was lighter in color.  

thank's guy's , thought that was the way to go .

started on the crows feet

Steve,this looks great! I don't know how you get those in such perfect alignment.I know that's how real ships are rigged and it takes a lot of patience to get it this way. I always thought(and I always make mine black) standing rigging was black with tar or pitch to protect it from the elements.How in the world are you going to tie off the horizontal lines at the top of the shrouds beings that the vertical lines are so close together? By the way have you or anyone else seen those football looking things hanging from the lower shrouds wrapped in rigging? What are those for? Anybody know? the

Those are arguably one of the toughest things to rig, I see you forgone rigging the tackle, I don't blame you that phase is tough to get everything taught without pulling the stay out of shape. Nice work Steve

mark - I take it you mean the rat lines , their are tools you can get for this purpose , even crochet needles are good , not sure about your other comment , maybe someone else will know

michael- it was only going to be temporary , think I just got lazy 

thanks for the cudo's guy's too .

Yes,the ratlines. I don't know how you can tie off the horizontal lines and  get them to look good at the top beings the ratlines are so close together. I would love to see a picture of yours when you get done.I've only done one of these and as you might guess I am flabbergasted as to how you did these ratlines so neatly. What type of thread are you using? Did you make it yourself or did you buy it that way? I've never seen this type before?

The thick vertical ropes are the shrouds. Teir job is to transfer the force of the wind on the sails, from the mast down to the hull. The horizontal foot ropes are the ratlines.

They only go up so far, about where the futtock shrouds come out from the mast and go up to the edge of the top and the bottom of the topmast shrouds.

Sailors scramble up the futtock shrouds and over the edge onto the top. Mere mortals like us squeeze through the lubber hole, the opening in the top in which the mast shrouds come up. 

Another term for the futtock shrouds is "crows feet."

LonCray

I am no expert, but I'd always been under the impression that standing rigging was tarred and black, while running rigging was lighter in color.  

 

mark , I did one of the futtock shroud's , just to put a pic up for you , all I basically use , is a pair of bent nose tweezer's , this took about 20minute's . the hard part is getting your finger's to remember where they are supposed to go , the other pic is the thread i used , from syren for the shroud's , the .63mm for the top mast's , and gutermann for the rat line's , not sure how thick it is , I can't decipher their system , it's roughly .1mm thick , I chose dark brown thread , simply because I preferred it to black , not as stark .

gmorrison, I alway,s thought the crowsfeet were what I did in the pic above , If I was wrong , could you please tell me , what I should be calling them .

try this mark , davidk is a very good modeler , and he show's a very easy way of doing ratline's

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmGFWJhi8E

Thanks Steve for the pictures and info!

Steve

That is some sweet looking rigging you got going. I’m glad to see you’re using Syren’s Line. It was a thing of beauty using it on my Catalan Ship and I’m not using anything else if I can help it.

Steve

mark , I hope it help's .

steve , cheer's mate , loved your catalan ship .

started on the upper mast's burton pendant's fall's , wish I had done this on the lower one's , before I put the shroud's in .

Looking great Steve! have been reading up on this thread as Victory's my next build. 

thank's flint , from what I seen of your work , I'm really looking forward to it mate . any idea when you will start it .

the fall's , for the fore burton pendant's , on .