Dang I don't build ships but that is killer looking.

Great job on that detail.

Think would take a lot of these plus a lot of cursing to get it done.





Cheers

John, That is one beautiful looking ship. You have more ability than I do, would probably knot my fingers together or end up hanging myself accidently from a yardarm. And I thought that doing trees was a job, huh, nothing compared to this. When does she set sail?

These pages are available on my photobucket

Simply put ,to rig a ship you generally work from front to back,bottom to top and inside to outside.I started with the bobstays and worked aft.
Note:Bobstays [2] refers to their location in the drawing or diagram (in my photobucket ,look for the Album ; "Friggin...... "

I don't think they are all to the correct scale thickness.....

Just kidding: that is quite simply stunning!

Truly a beautiful piece of work John . Any chance of a full photo?

Thanks guys! here you go Jim.
I have a lot more pics in my photobucket see the HMS Victory or Friggin" albums.

Absolutely beautiful John . I dont know where you get the time to do so much QUALITY work . I have followed many of your builds over on Hobby Talk also .

The above pic was taken today.I was trying to compose something a little different using my Nelson bust and the model.The only problem is that the bust is fixed permanently in the case.I was severely limited in my camera angles ,lighting etc... because of this fact.
I tried silhouettes and different pics of all kinds.Normally you would not want the subject in the foreground to be out of focus but rules are made to be broken,so I tried to make the bust look like a B&W chalk image that someone drew on a photograph.I am quite happy with the results.

WOW.
Don't know what to say, just fantastic riggin.
Not to mention the ship itself.
Bob

You sir, are insane, just simply fantastic!

Hi Guys! I know it has been awhile since I posted anything to this thread.
I have been very busy getting my aircraft dioramas ready for donation to the Canada Aviation Museum.The new part of the construction is to be finished in Feb of next year but my dioramas will need to be ready to go well before that ,as they will be doing the finishing for public presentation.The fourth and last large 1/16th scale aircraft diorama will only be finished in a year or two after that, then I plan to concentrate upon finishing the running rigging part of the Victory thread and then bread box size shadow boxes of various subjects.I am very anxious to really get into shadow boxes but my other commitments must come first.
Cheers! John.