Spanish Galleon 1607 , LEE(IMAI) 1:100

kirill , your rigging skill's are sublime .

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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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

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

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

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

Good day,

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

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It looks good, Kirill. Your are making progress.

Good day,

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

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

Looks magnificent Kirill, love it!!!.

Michael D.

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

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

Good day,

Thanks for your attention and comments,

this night fitted mizzen parral gear ...

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Looking very good!

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

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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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

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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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

:)))!!!

Thanks Flint !

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

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...

Good day,

this evening completed mizzen sail rigging ! :)))

Tomorrow will continue with upper mizzen sail...

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Good day,
Dear friends,
Today completed upper mizzen sail rigging... lifts will be done on a days... there is nearly "O" information, so I made it very simple as fr as I understood from brief description in Anderson book, tackle "used" only for tie halliard...

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I sincerely hope that your image hosting site stays in business for many years. I'd hate to be deprived of this outstanding WIP. It is a tutorial, a motivator, a lesson in perseverance, and a work of art that I'd hate to lose.

Mike,

Thank You very much  for your warm comments , I 'm glad if you like it/building report and found it usefull...

I hope as well, this hosting site will work many years more ... or at least till the moment of bonaventur mast completion and presentation of final report ... :)))

Wish You All The Best!

Kirill, 

Wow, wow and wow! I could look at your rigging all day and not see everything you have going on. Just magnificent sir.

You might have gome over my question earlier in your WIP, but I cannot seem to find it. So, do you make your own blocks and if so, what materials do you use?

Thanks as always for answering my questions my friend,

Steve