Le Coureur 1776, model 1:48 by Adi

Gute Besserung, Adi! Wow that mizzen has quite a rake to it, doesn’t it? The degree of slant seems very angled to the rear. And I’ve never built or even noticed a ship where the top mast is located aft of the lower mast. Is that a peculiarity of your ship, or have you seen it in others as well?
 
pianoforte said:
Thank you all for your likes and comments. Today I come with the standing rigging on the mizzen mast.

I was somewhat slowed down by pending vein operation but am now completely well again.

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Dear Eddie
I'm Glad to hear you are recovering !
You do an excellent and beautiful job on the mast and ropes. Well done
 
Vfordyce said:
Gute Besserung, Adi! Wow that mizzen has quite a rake to it, doesn’t it? The degree of slant seems very angled to the rear. And I’ve never built or even noticed a ship where the top mast is located aft of the lower mast. Is that a peculiarity of your ship, or have you seen it in others as well?
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Thank you for the wishes. I think this mast constellation is typical for a Lugger and can be seen very nicely on Boudriot's drawings.
 
Vfordyce said:
Gute Besserung, Adi! Wow that mizzen has quite a rake to it, doesn’t it? The degree of slant seems very angled to the rear. And I’ve never built or even noticed a ship where the top mast is located aft of the lower mast. Is that a peculiarity of your ship, or have you seen it in others as well?
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Take a look at the planset review of the Lugger Le Coureur by Jean Boudriot

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These masts and sails are making this model extremely attractive - so much "cloth" for this little ship

Planset review - Lugger LE COUREUR - 1776" in scale 1:48 by Jean BOUDRIOT & Hubert BERTI

Planset Review: Lugger LE COUREUR - 1776 in scale 1:48 by Jean BOUDRIOT & Hubert BERTI available from ancre in different languages -> english, french or italian https://ancre.fr/en/monograph/50-monographie-du-coureur-lougre-1776.html#/langue-francais Excerpts from the drawings taken from...
shipsofscale.com
 
Dear Adi. It has been quite some time since my last visit - and oh boy - what wonderful work you are doing here. The Luger looks stunning and reaffirms my affinity for this not-so-little, little ship. Yours is a beauty!
 
Dear friends, thank you for the likes and comments. I am now getting into sail production. At first I planned to make the sails out of tissue paper, like my gaff sloop. After careful consideration, I decided to go for cotton batiste. For scale reasons, sewing the sails is out of the question for me, because in 19th century the stitch width was between 9 and 13 mm. Transferred to the scale of 1:48, the stitch width would be 0,20 - 0,25 mm, which would be 4 to 5 stitches per millimeter!
So only gluing comes into question. This also applies to hems, doubles, reef tapes and bolt-ropes.

A piece of cotton batiste is cut to size, dipped in glue water mixture and then hung to dry. After drying, cut 12 mm wide strips from the cloth with a really sharp scalpel and then glue them to each other with 2 mm overlap. Then glue the doubles and the bolt-rope. For the placement of the eyelets I use a very thin rubber thread.

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