First Floor Almost Completed!

Hi All,

I'm back!!!

After some time off the 'construction site' due to some various reasons (nicer weather, other projects, a small vacation and plenty of procrastination) I have started to work a bit more on the Black Pearl.

This is how it currently looks:

More Shrouds and Deadeyes

Hi,

I worked a bit last week on the Black Pearl rigging. There is some progress on the fore mast standing rigging! The starboard side is now completed. You can admire it in the next pictures.

This is how the lower part looks on the model. The shroud's deadeyes are now connected to the channel's deadeyes using the laniards.

Shrouds and Deadeyes

Hi All,

I am back again with more updates about the Black Pearl model construction. Be aware, I might get technical this time :-P.

Today I am going to tell you about Shrouds. What are they, what are they used for, how one can model them.

Let's start. Shrouds are ropes that go from the top of the masts to the ship body. Their role is to support the masts and keep them in position. Since a picture always says more than words, I present you my first pair of shrouds.

The Crew

Hi All,

There is no point in having a ship if there is no one to use it, right? At least a famous fantasy pirate ship, as Black (Brown) Pearl is, must have some pirates around to talk and sing pirate English (http://www.wikihow.com/Talk-Like-a-Pirate), yell 'Arrr!' and 'Aye' all over the place.

So, the captain decided to gather the crew and visit the crew. There was immediately a problem. The crew, being quite new, was not adequately dressed (no, they were not drunk). You can see one of them in the next picture.

Bobstay and Blocks

Hi All,

Yesterday I have finished to rig all the guns and also installed them on the deck. You can see the results in the next picture. The work on them is not completely finished. I have to varnish them, but for now they are glued and painted and look pretty good.

Rigging The Guns

Hi All,

My rigging research continues, but in the mean time I am also finishing the deck details. Everyone says do this first because you do not want to do it when you have all the ropes there.

So, I have started to put together the guns from the main deck. Because they are in the open and seen by everybody, I decided to fit them with some minimal rigging. This is how the end result looks like.

More Deck and Masts Work

Hello,

Last time I said I am starting to do some research about the next steps. This turned out to be (as I knew it will) boring and tedious and long. There is no 'model ship rigging for dummies' of course. Fortunately, the people in the forums that did this already are really helpful and nice.

Anyway, while researching I have started to gather a list with the things that have to be completed before starting to fill the model with ropes.

In the next pictures you will see that I started to tackle this list already. First, the pins (more than 60) that will be used to secure all the running rigging are glued in place.