HMS Victory by Y.T.- Mamoli - 1:90 scale

Y.T. said:
Note that before applying the product you must very well degrease the brass parts with alcohol or / and acetone. If parts were soldered, they must be totally cleaned from any flux. Flux removal can be done with acids. I use this:

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You can use Citric Acid for this job too, available as inexpensive dry powder in many places. Non-toxic and as green as it gets. If modelling gives you lemons, you can make lemonade too.
 
I have just found this build thread...As I was starting to do my own... It's top drawer YT Chapeaux!

I have just one comment. The first three pages of your build log are missing the majority of photographs, they just don't appear. Perhaps it is me? Perhaps others have the same issue?

(Okay! 2 comments)... Continue wth the great documentation and commentary of your build... it's a great source of encouragement and guidance, not least with the positive and diverse comments offering advice too.

All the best.
 
Great work indeed

Another youtube video about this ship is at;

How an 18th Century Sailing Warship Works​

from Animagraffs (his video would not load here).??
Go to youtube and just copy and paste the above notation - Very much worth your time....
 
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Now finally into a real business of making lower mast shrouds for fore and main masts. Seven are done. Fifteen to go. They are made of 2 x 3 threads of Gutermann Tera 40 thread. This results in .95 mm rope. Job goes very fast. I am making one about 6 feet rope in about 5 to 10 minutes.


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Y.T. said:
Victory rigging is going extremely difficult for me. My problem is I cannot do something I do not understand. It takes sometimes weeks for me to understand where and how some line starts and ends and their function. Comprehensive one source for Victory rigging doesn’t exist. I obtained and use 4 books to decipher each single part of rigging at a time. Most of the times what is shown in one book is obscure for understanding. Then I must use other three to finally exclaim “eureka , I got it”. Here’s an example. I struggled to understand a bowsprit standing rigging. I was looking for hours at great picture in McGowan book (most valuable book I have for this purpose by the way) and couldn’t get it. I read the verbal description of it in Longridge book about 20 times (this is the most obscure reading I ever had as it also goes with no pictures most of the time). Then I was looking onto diagrams in McKay book intermittently. Well I finally got it.

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I find that bowsprit rigging is the most confusing of all. I have all these books inc Petersson's, & find they often contradict oneanother!
Stuart
 
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