After painting the thread and stanchion black i made a template for the netting and then with a very sharp knife and a steel rule cut the netting, the top was sewn on first by doing a bit then a dab of superglue, doing a bit more and more superglue, the bottom of the netting proved to be a lot more difficult so i put a spot of superglue on a couple of places to keep it from moving around and them sewing it up, so about 4 hours later one side is done, now i need to rest my eyes.

Thanks Tom, thanks Chris, your comments are much appreciated.
Regards
Paul

Excellent work Paul, looking very nice.

Mark

Lovely work again Paul!
I couldn't find any reference to the 'sqiggly bits' in my huge Alan McGowan Victory book, the DelPrado instructions weren't much help, only calling it 'decoration' but then I found it in the John McKay 'Anatomy of the Ship' book on Victory - it's called the 'False Rail'!
Strange name but I suppose it rolls off the tongue a little easier than 'Untrustworthy Barrier'!

Robin.

After going through my stash of off cuts and bits of wood i couldn't find any soft wood for bending that would do for the Ekeking Rail so decided to start work on the Channels, i had some 15mm X 2mm Tanganyka that i had bought for the 1/84 victory stuck them together to make it 15mm X 4mm then using the John Mckay book Anatomy Of The Ship i measured the pictures of the channels and multiplied them by 1/192 then divided by 1/100 to give me the correct sizes, i then took pictures of them and using MS publisher, changed the sizes on screen to give me where i needed to cut and drill for the deadeyes and bolts.

Hi Tom
Thanks for that, my first effort didn't go to plan so have ordered some 3mm softer wood than the tanganika for the channels, they turned out to be too thick anyway, i tried cutting the slots with my Proxxon table saw but just couldn't get the depth to be uniform so my plan is now to put it in the vice to a certain level and find a thicker saw blade to do in one cut, so onto plan B.

Regards
Paul

Ah thanks Robin, i put a larger thicker blade in my Proxxon table saw and because of the etch i bought which is a bit thinner i think that'll do the trick, i've had a bit of a play and it seems to work OK but will probably need stronger glasses to get it bang on, In John Mckays Anatomy of the ship the outer edge of the channels are thinner, so if i take the 3mm i have ordered and take the outer edge and graduate it down to 2mm i'll have enough meat going into the hull with some pin supports and narrow enough to take the chain etch, ( well it's a plan ), i have a flat diamond file and i'll give both a go tomorrow night if my wood arrives.
thanks for the advice mate and i'm glad you're keeping an eye on me it's much appreciated.

Hey Tom
Well happy days my plan worked, i took the the measured blank and with some dividers set at 1.5mm scored down the middle a few times and then took a diamond file and made a groove for the 1.6mm electrical copper wire to sit in, then i shaped the ends with my Proxxon drill with a Proxxon cylindrical sander attached to create the curved shape at each end of the channel, i then cut the slots out for the chain whales to sit in and offered it up to the model and surprising with this model it lined up to the gun ports really well, ( based on past experience with DelPrado they got this bit pretty bang on, makes a change doesn't it Robin ) then i had to literally had dig out the groove at the end of each channel to continue the groove, when that was done i sanded down both sides of the cannel to bring it down to approx to 2.3mm, i clamped some 1.6mm copper wire to the edge of the channels put in a vice and with a hammer and a round edge of a file moulded the the copper around the curved edge of the channels, these are all sitting in their own bags ready to be blackened and painted but before that the channels were too high on the original setting so they will have to lowered which means cutting into the original moulding that i put on, yet more chopping up of the ship, it's not like we haven't done this before on the DelPrado, but hey, happy days.

OMG! That is truly entertaining. Looks to me like the perfect opportunity for a mod. That aside, absolutely beautiful craftsmanship on this. Gonna keep following.

You think that's funny, the original forcastle would look good outside a country cottage as a white picket fence.