Ahoy Shipmates,

I hope you can help on few questions:

1) The magazine shows/says that the catharpins (brass wire) should be fitted behind the shrouds, but the pictures on official build shows to fit front of them. Which one is the correct?

2) The magazine and the official build both says to use 0.5 mm thread to fix the catharpins, however on the pictures (both magazine and official build) they seems much thinner, more like 0.25 or even 0.15 mm. Wouldn’t be the knot too big if 0.5 was used?

3) I just can’t get my head around how the knot should be done. I was looking at the magazine instruction. I understand the first part to make the “figure 8” around the shroud and the wire, but I don’t know how to finish it off with a reef knot. The ends are on the right side at the end of the “8”, so how I make a reef knot at the front of the cross?
I would really appreciate if you could post some step-by-step instructions, pictures or drawing would be most helpful.

4) The pendants are hanging in an unnatural position (slightly splayed out) even if I soaked them with PVA and used weights until dries. Will anything be fitted onto them later on, or they will hang just on their own? I’m thinking to glue them to the side of the bibbs to look more natural hanging, but I can do it only if nothing will be attached to them.
See pictures in my diary:
http://forum.model-space.co.uk/default.aspx?g=posts&m=289629#post289629

Thanks in advance

Hi Tomick, Alan,

Thank you for yor replies.