Yes GMorrison, there were some flaws still.
But a good friend of mine, who also build a marvellous model of a french 74 for the technical Museum in Munich insisted ...
Buoy ropes should be tarred and not à la natüre and the buoy slings be smarted ...
... also the lenght of the buoy rope was questioned ...
... and-and-and ...
...
Back at home same procedure as usual ...
... first the buoy rope tarred - not to dark - and about 20 fathoms long and thickness a third of the anchor cable - a heavy tool needed to break free the bower from the ground.
Then tarred the slings with white glue and black paint to make disappear the gaps to look like the right one ...
... but at least the fingers looked spectacular ...
... and then my misinterpretation - the buoy itself à la natüre and not tarred ...
... and V2 goes down the drains :-)
Then the discussion goes on about the thickness of the slings: Usually the slings and lanyards have half or a third of the superior rope´s diameter.
So new slings done, 1/3 of the anchor cable and 1/3 of the buoy rope ...
... looks ridiculous :-(
Got it, the slings are not to transmit force its just to hold the buoy. Ok, discard V3.
... that brought me back to the testing grounds :-)
V4 was another try with slings of white glue, thick black paint and brown casein paint ...
... but realised half way that they represnt much more a rubber duck than a buoy slings ...
... that is why I stopped and ...
... some time later:
The best results I usually got if was as near to the original as posible. So I went to try out the real serving. But as the real thin ropes proved to be to be to thin for the serving mashine I used copper wire.
Took one of my two colored ropes ...
... enjoyed the fancy effects ;-)
So another try with two single untwisted threads - black and brown - to get the wanted color effect, the wire was first blackened with Edding ...
... and bingo - here we go :-)
Another comparison in between the fake white glue version and the real served one.
Used V4 and the fancy colored rope to try the fixing of the slings and it proves to work far better than the rubber version seen of the bottom :-)
Made my now famous bacteriophage ...
... looks already creepy ...
... but this full-sucked tick, that will be V5 ;-)
Placed in its place ...
And what will remain? Only the memory remains ... of V1 up to V4 ...
XXXDAn