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| View Poll Results: What is your favorite modeling task? | |||
| Framing (laying keel, frames, bulkheads) |
  
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13 | 10.16% |
| Hull Planking |
  
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24 | 18.75% |
| Deck Planking |
  
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15 | 11.72% |
| Deck Houses |
  
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13 | 10.16% |
| Deck (Small boats, cannons, etc.) |
  
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13 | 10.16% |
| Scroll work (fine detailing like figureheads etc.) |
  
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8 | 6.25% |
| Masts and Yards |
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10 | 7.81% |
| Rigging |
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44 | 34.38% |
| Finishing (painting, varnishing, etc.) |
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9 | 7.03% |
| Sail making |
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1 | 0.78% |
| Too new at the hobby to know what my favorite task is! |
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31 | 24.22% |
| Initial 'Take Off' from plans and laying out of patterns from the ships' lines |
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8 | 6.25% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 128. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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10-20-2006, 10:59 PM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
I like it all....but one thing that I am becoming very fond of is carving ornamentation. It is good that I like it though since I am scratch building the Wasa and have a TON to do!!
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10-26-2006, 11:39 AM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
I find assembling 'rat lines' a most boring task. Also, would like to know of those among you the favorite method of tying these 'lines' - knots, etc.
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10-29-2006, 08:49 AM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
I have found rigging to be most enjoyable even though it is rigging that currently has dashed my motivation. It must be the challenge of execution that I enjoy.
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11-04-2006, 10:34 AM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
There is a lot of it but I find the satisfaction of seeing a completed set of ratlines stretching up the mast is compensation for the painstaking work. Many months ago I purchased a set of 5 piece rigging tools from Micro-Mark and would now be lost without them. The most useful piece resembles a miniature crochet hook and this has proved invaluable.
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11-04-2006, 01:12 PM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
There are two tools available from Model Expo that will help a lot. One is the "Reeving and Spacing Tool". This not only speeds up assembly of deadeyes but makes the quality of the finished product much better. The other is a tool called "Loom-a-Line" which helps in assembly of the shrouds and ratlines. Other than that, it is indeed a boring task, but important to take your time and get it right. I'm working on the 1;48 scale Cutty Sark and I'm right in the middle of applying about 2,500 copper plates. This will be my 8th 2-day weekend since I started and I'm only about half way through.
TEDIOUS/BORING!!! but important to get right. Randy Evers Agoura Hills, CA |
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11-04-2006, 01:15 PM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
Question for you John:
Do you use a lathe to turn the masts/spars??? If so, which brand/size do you use? Randy Evers Agoura Hills, CA |
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11-04-2006, 03:44 PM
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Re: Tying ratlines
I have tried the following method for tying ratlines and it has always worked ok for me. First I sketch the layout of the shrouds together with the crossing ratlines on paper. I transfer this sketch on a one cm. thick wood template which I trim to about one cm. wider that the sketch. I rout shallow troughs along the marked shrouds and ratlines and I proceed to first place the gangs of shrouds in the formed troughs. To keep the shrouds in place these are taped at the top, centre and bottom to the wooden template. The next job is to clove hitch the ratlines across the shrouds working from top to bottom or vice versa. I do this with the help of a longish needle and a crochet needle that sometimes comes in handy as well. I must add that the deadeyes should be fixed to the shrouds before this process is initiated since it would be difficult to complete afterwards.
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01-23-2007, 12:34 AM
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Re: What is your favorite modeling task?
O.K. Gang
Let me tell you what has to be the most boring task. Tying on ratlines Fred
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01-23-2007, 12:37 AM
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Re: Tying ratlines
Anthony
How do you double the shrouds up over the masthead??? Fred
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