BANANNNA!
Not quire yet, thank you for trying, but meanwhile ...
... it is time fore shake-rattle-and-roll!
To add a new shade to the old black-and white discussion, I would like to widen up the discussion. Classically the two colors used by model makers for the british ships is a neutral pitch-black for the standing rigging or natural hemp for the running parts. As stockholm tar has a more brownish color, I already added a brown touch to my shrouds.
The contemporary literature mentions the ratlines as "tarred". Also the hammock netting and the cover over it is mentioned to be tarred. But does it mean that it was black? We had some interesting discussions in our german forum segelschiffsmodellbau.com with the remark, that it was also used to impregnate cloth to wear :-0
So I opted for a shade that is darker than the natural hemp but much lighter than the dark shrouds. So I mixed the two of them.
The thickness was already tested out quite a while ago and I found a thickness suitable for both looks and handling.
So I took my tart section and placed a template behind the shrouds - have a look at the shortened hair clips - my girly is gonna kill me ;-)
The template proved to be to thick in the lines, couldn´t see my lines properly ...
... so replaced it with a newer version where a filmsy line in an apart softgreen trhat proved to be more suitable. Also I used the hint not to rattle up (or better saying down) in one go, but to always half the distances to avoid the curving in of the outer shrouds.
So it got slowly more and more full ...
... the backstays are bend out of the way, there are rumors of modelers rattling them in also ...
The lower lines were tough, had to find a logical way to work my way through, remembering in which row they were done on the original. As the ratlines were the last items, so they had to go over everything.
But even this mess I managed to clear considerably :-)
And then comes the point of taking out the guiding template.
Still had to clear the half hitches of the outer shrouds and arrange the sagging ...
... and up they can go :-)
XXXDAn