WELL DONE-CAPI
WHAT YOU SEE HERE, IS WHAT I AM MISSING.Very nice model for your first attempt - very good result
Hi @Peter Gutterman, any chance you posted this on the wrong build log?I've said it before. Building wood models from kits is scratch building. Like buying a lotto ticket, often the plans and instructions only slightly increase your chance of success. As for throwing your hours of work onto the concrete floor ( or in my case, against a cinder block wall). Remember: "Don't take a permanent solution for a temporary problem" (Like suicide, or in this case, modelcide.) Unlike a surgeon, we can always just get up and walk away from a vexing problem, back up, think it through, do a do-over if necessary, tear it apart and start over. ( a process I'm currently experiencing with my latest project, probably setting me back at least forty hours worth of work. But, hey, I'd never be able to look at the model with any satisfaction otherwise.
May I recommend adding a few basic books to your stash before buying any more kits (a compulsion endemic to our hobby. I know whereof I speak ).
May I recommend, Lennarth Peterssen's books: Rigging Period Ship Models; or, most specific to your current dilemma, "Rigging Period Fore- and-Aft Craft" Naval Institute Press Annapolis, MD
Being Danish, Peterssen's books are devoid of of text, and rely instead on beautifully realized illustrations of what rope goes where, what it does and, where it starts and ends, much like another Danish product: Leggo kits. Although the books are based on a specific ship and three different and fore and aft craft, the functions of the rigging principles and belaying points are pretty much universal. After pouring over these beautiful and engagingly clear illustrations for a few hours you will be surprised by how many mysteries will evaporate, and how much you will have learned.( And been entertained!)
I am sure that the many experienced modelers who are following this thread, have their own favorite tomes on the subject of rigging to add to the list.
Having, and continuing, to experience such frustrations as you own, I feel your pain, Pete Gutterman
I do not agree with many comments here.You're right! I thought I was posting this on the log of the gentleman who was so discouraged with his Artesania Latina kit of the Swift. My apology to Dave and the Lucy B. which is a splendid model. Somehow I jumped the track! Sorry. Thanks Paul.
Well, It wouldn't be the first time I've screwed up
Pete
I have done the same myself, Peter . It just jumped out at me here because Dave's (DocBlake's) work is exemplary on every level (he was just featured in the June 2023 issue of the MSB Journal). When I first read this I thought: why would Peter suggest to Michaelangelo where he can go to learn how to mix his paints? But then it occurred to me this post was simply in the wrong place.You're right! I thought I was posting this on the log of the gentleman who was so discouraged with his Artesania Latina kit of the Swift. My apology to Dave and the Lucy B. which is a splendid model. Somehow I jumped the track! Sorry. Thanks Paul.
Well, It wouldn't be the first time I've screwed up
Pete
These are completely different ships and also types of vesselsNow here are the Manoly pics. A more more expensive model but more detailed.
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sorry for that. anyway on the old Swift, you could/ can make it looks better. this old will know. sorryThese are completely different ships and also types of vessels
the first from Artesania Latina is a pilot boat without any guns (1805)
the second is from Mamoli and is a brigantine with 16 guns (if this was real) (1776)
The only thing which these models have together is the name "SWIFT" - in principle questionable if one or both really existed in the past
This is the listing of known real Swifts
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Find vessels by name, rate, type, nationality, number of guns, builder or designer, shipyard or operational base, acquisition and datesthreedecks.org
a real Virginia pilot boat but built in 1794 was looking like this
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'Swift' (1794)
Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Swift' (1794), a forty-nine foot schooner, ex-Virginia pilot boat.
Signed by Henry Peake [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1799-1803; later Master Shipwright, Deptford dockyard, 1803-1806; later Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
Hi all following the swit- and the frustrated builder. I have just been on the net under Artesania Latina-Swift, and got some results- not from Artesania Latina- but emails company with info and prices. I will add some of the old pictures. As far I remember the most difficult part was the Stern filler. the rest is fairly easy. it the frustrated gentleman could send some images, it would be easier to help him to build and be less frustrated. I do not know if the word frustrated is the same in US.uk, uk,uk or Scandinavia.sorry for that. anyway on the old Swift, you could/ can make it looks better. this old will know. sorry