That book features drawings of every rigging line on a. It can be tedious and timeconsuming however putting the effort in adds to the beauty of your finished model. To reduce this in scale, and yet retain an accurate representation, is an awesome undertaking. Our rigging model ships practicum is based on the book rigging period ship models by lennarth petersson. The rigging of period ship models is the most complex task which any modeller has to take on, for an eighteenthcentury manofwar boasted mile on mile of rigging, more than 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. Rigging period ship models is a 119page illustrated compilation showing, with intricate detail, the complexity of rigging by using a period model of the british frigate melampus as a baseline to show the rigging. A stepbystep guide to the intricacies of squarerig.
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