1/450 Revell Spanish Galleon

[Guest]

Next on the workbench will be this one, slowly accidentally assembling 'ships through the ages' :smiling:

[JR]

I just was just thinking of all that rigging George ! will watch this with interest .
John.

[Guest]

Me too mate. Because it carries both square and lateen rigs, she's going to be a bit of a devil. Thankfully I stumbled across an illustration of one with simplified rigging, but that's a long way off yet.

Cheers
George

[Guest]

This should be fun :smiling3:.

[Guest]

Some progress, more or less built wth some paint splashed around to delineate bits. Going to have to paint the entire thing before fitting rigging, sails, etc.

[Guest]

Finally a return to business:



Next up is tidy paint and start rigging.

[JR]

George,
Have the coffee on, biscuits at the ready, the gang will be along to watch this rigging :surprised::surprised:
John.

[Guest]

Rigging is fun :smiling3:.

[Guest]

Having to assemble the shrouds and ratlines could have it ending up like an explosion in a knitwear factory.

As the sails and yards are moulded as one, they will need to be fitted before the standing rigging can be done. So looks like; do the paint, stick on yards and sails, make up a rigging plan and attempt to follow it.

[Mickc1440]

After only rigging a biplane this will be interesting

[Guest]

Gets more interesting; had to break the masts off to drill holes in the fighting tops to get somehere to anchor the upper and lower shrouds. Maybe what I should do is Plan B; get another kit, make all the alterations, fully assemble and paint it, then rig it. Could be easier.

Bloody-minded enough to see this one through to the end, there's always Plan B :rolling:

[Guest]

It's string time! Now to get on making up a rigging plan.




Masts are very flimsy now that the weight of the sails is on them, hopefully the standing rigging will help here but it's going to take a delicate touch.

[spanner570]

Nice job George.
If it helps, when I rigged my Charles W. Morgan whaler, I temporarily glued a piece of rigging thread from the bow to the mast tops and down to the stern. This at least kept the masts vertical whilst I rigged the thing!
Good luck... :thumb2:

Ron

[Guest]

Thanks for that, I will give that a go. I've got a Morgan in the stash, the rigging looks formidable.

[Guest]

Major disaster, leaving a rigging line under tension overnight managed to distort the masts. They are just too flimsy for the job. I'll try replacing the masts with metal or heavier styrene rod. See what happens