Thanks guys

Just a quick one as I got my lighting sorted for the cut-away section.

Leaving the lighting installation as an afterthought - or more like "shouldn't be too much of an issue to fit it later" - turned out to be very silly mistake...

Glueing the LEDs in place not so much, but concealing the excess wiring and preventing it from dangling down was more than a frustrating challenge.

My thought was to hide it all between the upper deck planking and a second ceiling but as it turned out, some of the supplied figures already touch the upper deck planking and lowering the ceiling would prevent me from showing the crew at all

Now I'm left with the exposed wiring. I think the only option i'm left with will be to paint the wires in a light wood colour in order for them to be less obvious...

Turns out a was quite careless with the deck planking

Of course! That's such simple jet effective solution!!!

I initially thought of cutting slots into some brass tubes but your suggestion Martyn is so much better and easier to do. I've got a few brush covers and they are slightly opaque, just needs the lantern frame painted on

that just made my day Martyn, thanks

PS.: ...and that's why I love this forum!

Hi folks,

gone down another rabbit hole here...

The visual enhancement that self made ropes give to ship models has caught my interest long ago and I couldn't get my mind off it.

With the help of this forum, inspiration from other ship builders and hours of YouTube videos, I managed to build my own little rope walk machine. Luckily, materials are easy to source these day and the hole build didn't quite break the bank either...

I have not yet tried to make a single rope yet. At which time, I'm sure some more improvement will have to be made such as adding wheels and extended wiring to make use of a remote

Here is my version at it's current state

Excellant work again Odo, i look forward to seeing your work.

I'm very pleased with the result of my first ropes. Seeing self-made ropes on picture is one thing but looking at them for real makes you really appreciate the difference to the supplied threads and ropes with this kit!

This black rope is made from the 0.15mm supplied thread.

For comparison, I changed the rope used on the barrels - one of the first things I built.

Having made a couple of ropes of different sizes, I got onto rigging one of the 12 pounder guns on the upper gun deck. This gave me a little inside of whats to come when rigging the rest of the ship - and this was only one gun

I used 2mm single blocks and not the provided 3mm one as they looked way out of proportion. I also had to lower the level where the barrels rest on their carriages as the gun ports sit a little low and too close to the upper gun deck planking. Therefore, the barrels don't have to point downwards as much as they would have if the carriage would've stayed unchanged.

One down, nine to go...

Looks great, nice work.

Mark