papa 695's HMS Victory sea scape

[papa 695]

After completing Michael's Victory Challenge I've taken this one apart and darkened the decks

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Also had a go at weathering the sails ( I hope you can see it in the photo's )

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and also started to add the rigging

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[flyjoe180]

This is going to be good. Watching with interest, you're doing a fabulous job Ian.

[stona]

He's mad you know...completely bonkers!

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

You are joking me....

[Guest]

Hold on, you've done something fancy to the stern that doesn't use the decal, how did you do that?!?!?

[papa 695]

Thanks lads

[papa 695]

He's mad you know...completely bonkers!Cheers

Steve

I think your right there Steve

[papa 695]

Hold on, you've done something fancy to the stern that doesn't use the decal, how did you do that?!?!?

There is a paper decal Michael and some paint to make it look better

[spanner570]

Ian, good start.

I'm about to set sail with my modifications.....I'm stumped as to how make the rope 'ladders' the crew use to climb up to the crow's nests.

Any thoughts? I had thought of fine mesh, but can't find anything small enough.

[Gern]

Had you thought of nylon stockings - for the rigging on your ship I mean!

Gern

[papa 695]

Ian, good start.I'm about to set sail with my modifications.....I'm stumped as to how make the rope 'ladders' the crew use to climb up to the crow's nests.

Any thoughts? I had thought of fine mesh, but can't find anything small enough.

I'm just using EZ line Ron for the ropes going up to the crows nest then not sure for the thinner ones across maybe some clear fix just dabbed and pulled across but will try that later

[Guest]

Doing ratlines on a model that small is amazing. On larger models, the ratlines are attached to the shrouds with a half hitch. At this scale try a human hair for the ratlines. Here is a site with general rigging details

http://sailing-ships.oktett.net/square-rigging.html

and another site

http://titanic-model.com/articles/Rigging/Titanic_Rigging_Reference_MainPage.htm

[papa 695]

Thanks for the info Graham

[papa 695]

This is a slow burner, half the rigging done, well one side anyway.

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[Guest]

Holy crap that's just incredible. This thing is TINY, I've no idea how you're doing that!