Are there kits out there that you can built without the whole roper work? Or are there some People that are building kits and leave alle the ropes away? ( no rigging ). Ik know its about 35%of the beauty of the ship.
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@dj56 : Some women without clothes are also interesting.....
@Pat71 : I guess you mean the rigging of a sailing ship, or?
I never saw a model without the rigging, or only unfinished ones......technically you need the standing rigging, that the masts will be stabile and the running rigging, to move the yards and sails, so technically a historic sailing ship needs rigging.
Nevertheless there are the so called Navy Board Models which are often represented without rigging, but also without the masts and yards.
This special style of ship model building was developed in England during first part of the 17th century.
This style is alternatively called
Admiralty models,
Dockyard models, or
Navy Board models.
The shipwrights and ship designers used this way to explain the board the construction specialities of a certain class or a special ship. I guess, that these guys from the board couldn´t read the drawings, so they needed the models to get convinced. In the National Maritime Museum in UK more or less all historic contmeporary models still exist, so we knoa a lot of the old construction methods.....At these models often no masts and rigging was installed.
Look f.e. at this Book review:
Navy Board Ship Models, 1650 - 1750