Spanish Galleon 1607 , LEE(IMAI) 1:100

Good day Steve,

Regarding crowsfeet lines, Yes,

first they pass trough drilled holes in the yard

than each line loaded with small weight of pin/or clamp, lenght of crowfeets lines adjusted ,

and  the other end alternatevely loaded ,these stages performed more or less simultaneously...

and finaly , all crowsfeet lines need to be liquid CA" plated "...

after a while, when lines became dry, I wrapped the lines around the yard and made seizing imitation ...

I 've found that it was the easiest way for me ,how to make crowsfeet looks more realistic effect with assistance of these drilled holes in the yard,pins as temporary weights and applied CA on each line... 

in reality - this is not the way,how crowsfeet need to be arranged , no drilled holes in the yard I guess...

kirill4

Good day Steve,

Thanks , I 'm glad if You found some  usefull information here for your own building :).

And thank You very much for share your painting technique.

Most complicated part in this mizzen rigging stage for me ,it was to arrange evenly distributed load of each bridle/or "legs" in lifts crowfoot. In this case I used ordinary sewing thread, not painted...

As soon as I reached desired effect with tension, not perfect, but at least they became more or less looks equal straight , than I fix each crowfeet line with liquid CA - CA was applied all along each line( in purpose to make them hard), and next day ,when CA became" good "dried ... I made imitation of knots and secure each line with imitation of seizing, and only after this stage, all lines were painted and stained...

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Kirill,

You are very welcome. I hope it makes sense, especially using seven different oil colors. One of the things I’ll go over with in the next post is how I vary the amount of paint and colors depending on the location.

Thank you so much for the information on the crowsfeet, they look absolutely stunning. I love how the glue keeps them from sagging. I also assume that you made the blocks for the crows feet too?

I do have a question on the first picture though. I‘m on the iPad right now so it doesn’t have the HD quality of the desktop. It looks like the crows feet lines are inserting into holes on the yard itself. Am I way off and you’re actually wrapping the lines around the yard?

Thanks,

Steve

:)))!!!

Thanks Flint !

Again, this is looking superb. When I see such intricate scale work, I sometimes wonder if it would be easier just to build the actual ship in the back garden!

Flint

Good day Steve,

Thanks , I 'm glad if You found some  usefull information here for your own building :).

And thank You very much for share your painting technique.

Most complicated part in this mizzen rigging stage for me ,it was to arrange evenly distributed load of each bridle/or "legs" in lifts crowfoot. In this case I used ordinary sewing thread, not painted...

As soon as I reached desired effect with tension, not perfect, but at least they became more or less looks equal straight , than I fix each crowfeet line with liquid CA - CA was applied all along each line( in purpose to make them hard), and next day ,when CA became" good "dried ... I made imitation of knots and secure each line with imitation of seizing, and only after this stage, all lines were painted and stained...

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Kirill,

I tried to rig my Nina like you just did with your Mizzenmast rigging. I did not even come close and it was 1/90 scale. 

I’m going to keep your build WIP handy so that when I finish the Pinta, Santa Maria etc, I can use it.

Steve

Thanks, :))

Dear friends,

today finished fastening running rigging of mizzen sail - sheet, in the form of whip (Anderson p.238, pic.318) mizzen bowlines , here I tried to imitate making rope coil in "new" form and mizzen tack - a simple cable \ added guide block ... this rigging, how exactly to manage it, I don't know -so,on the pictures you will see purely my fantasy, I don’t know how it should be on the galleon ... I tried to do it on "motives" in the way of Anderson (and Hockel) ... :)

and this evening I began rigging the topenants lifts ...

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Great work. You are really good at making ships look “ropy”.

Looking very good!

Good day,

Thanks for your attention and comments,

this night fitted mizzen parral gear ...

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It looks great, Kirill. Keep up the great work. I am enjoying your work.

Dear friends,

Thanks for your attention :) to my building ... this evening finaly fited mizzen sail at place - rigged mizzen tie , and there are some minor sail's  running rigging remains... tnan mizzen lifts need to be aranged...

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Kirill

I’ll have to give the gel CA a try. Hopefully it will look better than what I’m doing now! 

I’ve never thought to repaint a line if it becomes discolored, another trick I’m going to have to try.

Thanks as always,

Steve

Looks magnificent Kirill, love it!!!.

Michael D.

Good day,

Bakster,
Thanks for attencion to my galleon project ! :)))

continue with mizzen sail rigging - last night fitted leading blocks for mizzen bowlines 

It looks good, Kirill. Your are making progress.

Good day,

Have some small progress in mizzen riging... mizzen sail nearly ready for fitting on mast 

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Good day Steve... to fix various kind of "knots" , I use also CA , but CA gel... it is more easy/handy to use...aply it by tooth pick... I use it for all rigging and for fixing other details on the model as well... liquid CA I use in "specific "area only, when need to "freeze" thread , to keep requered shape... when making "crowfeet" rigging for example...than threads need to be repainted again, due to liquid CA discolorate them ...

but there is some specific in my threads , which I use for rigging... they are heavily painted with acrylic paints, and became quite hard after that, like a cppper wire :)... to imitate natural slack , when lines passes through blocks for example,...I use small drop of CA in this place, where it passes trough block, than bend and keep the line in requered position untill CA became dry... and restore paint color of the line if ness-ry

Krill,

I apologize in advance if you’ve already answered this question. What type of glue do you use on your rigging? I’ve been using CA (SuperGlue) but I don’t like the stiffness it creates in the line. 

Thanks,

Steve

Hello Kirill!  It is good to see that you are still with us. Thank you for posting your update. It is always enjoyed.  

I've just come across this thread and I have to say this is absolutely stunning! What attention to detail! Hats off to you Kirill. Inspiring stuff

Good day, 

Dear friends,

Thanks for your attention ... :) this my "summer" holiday I continue(very slowly...:)) with "mizzen"masts... busy with making set of all ness-ry blocks and other gears which will be ness-ry for mizzen sail rigging...soon will start to install mizzen sail...

some of the blocks,2.5 mm marked on the picture "red" are from wood/ I bought them... run out of my selfmade small blocks and was lazy to fabricate new :),  remains of the blocks  - selfmade from waisted piece of plastic / doshirak(instant noodles box caps or -epoxylin( epoxy), ...  ... difference between wooden and plastic blocks, when wooden blocks painted acrylic paint,need to paint them/ or differnce between wood and plastic too visible ...became not very noticeable ... and just on the macro foto, you can see the structure of the wood ... so in this respect the plastic / epoxylin blocks, which I made before,have more" scale"  in their appearance ...

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kirill , your rigging skill's are sublime .

Moi aussi!

Bump.

Kirill-- I would like to see more.. 

Good day,

Dear friends ,this time\"season"  I did last portion of my galleon rigging ... mizzen and bonaventur mast ... sails fastened to the yards ... and one more time I rearranged main mast topgallant halliards, two additional lead blocks were arranged/lashed to the mizzen stay , and running end fastened to half deck railings ...

remains of rigging... will be continued  in summer time , most probably in june -august... :)))

Wish all of you all the best and see you soon... in summer ! :)))

for the last, spanish galleon's  model,

I have this plans...  if you need them , let me know

Good day,

Thank You very much for information, and new pictures - save them in my galleon's foto storage :)))

I like very much Hendrick Vroom pictures - he shown a lot of interesting derails in his pictures!

Here I tried to collect various artists " arts"/ pictures with galleons images ...

http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t5753f763-galleons-pictures-spanish-dutch-english-begining-of-century-famous-dutch-artists.html

I agree with your comment abt :

"XVIth century Spanish galleons have almost no decoration at all. And only a tiny bit inXVIIth century, much less than other countries. They were becoming more and more black with each tarring. I do not know from where that use of hanging shields in Spanish galleons comes. It is something you see in other countries but it is unusual for Spain."

I used this famous  picture, as the "base " /avidance of hanging shields and a "few" rudimentary stern decoration and shape of bow figure ( animal head only), which I tried to reproduce on my model...:))) ... at least we can see them , this elements, on the picture... decoration as mix of geometrical and looks like carving / painted ornaments and bow head figure...