Langton HMS Victory part 3

I would say that I am finished with her! I glued the sails onto the masts and started the rigging operations. The standing rigging is a bit stressful: in order to get straight pieces of string between the masts, they must be stretched a bit, but the material allows for such a load. After that, the running rigging looks like a walk in the park! All those small ropes help a lot to stiffen the model, and I even think that they should be enough to make the cyano glue redundant.

The instruction leaflet made by Langton is very helpful but there is a gap between the sketches explaining the rigging and the figurine. I had to rely on side information from Longridge to make some things easier or more logical. I voluntarily omitted the shrouds and ratlines because I think there is no easy way to build some that would not look too heavy on the model. The usual screen cut to size and glued into place looks bogus anyway. However, it would be difficult to try to rig the shrouds as in real life since the masts would just disappear under layers or string! I also omitted flags and standards because I predict a short life time on a gaming table.








































See also HMS Victory part 1 and HMS Victory part 2