Thank you Jim for this great input, very appreciated. I think every scale needs its own technic, as the challenges change. For scale 1:48 thin cloth can work out fine, from smaller than 1:150 paper gets a wonderful choice. My scale of 1:100 is somewhere in-between: The cloth is too coarse or too transparent, on the other hand the sails are too big for paper, also I would like to add some details, that would be difficult in paper alone.
In real life I did not have to much time to tinker around due to job and privet commitments, but some small experimenting I could afford.
I prepared a small extract of a stay sail, using my laminate technic. I reinforced the leeches by 0,3 mm copper wire
The material is that thin, one can see the copper shining through.
Took a wet cotton stick and resoftened the sail partially to slowly form a soft wave.
The anvil were the handles of a scissors and the hammer was the hot iron.
And here the fascinating thing, how the appearance changes with the different moods of light ...
... as originally intended
OK, one could guess what comes next ?!? Almost.
Another reason for testing to see the limits of the material. And what should I say?!?
If one uses hard and pointed tools to make smaller crisps into the material and one slips, the material breaks!
But also one can see the benevolence of the material ...
... cleaned and a new leech glued on - this time no copper inside - and it looks like new!
And to prove that this invention is really mine, I left a good part of genetic material in the superglue to provide enough DNA-Tests for the future
Then formed the hanks for the stay ...
... and tried to fix them, still without leech rope, but still it was quite stable.
First trials on the right were not so really shipshape, useful was the third hand of table, clamp and clamping tweezers.
And slowly ...
... I was happy. Even though the fixture of the hanks is on the really outer edge, it proves to be very stable.
So tried the technic on my small sample and heaved it up.
Even though it looks soft, it is quite rigid and keeps well the form due to the white glue used to stiffen it up.
Then resoftened with a wet cotton stick partially to get the wave stronger (remember - went bad already once ...)
But this time it worked out fine
So slept over night - or perhaps not that good as one of the 17 beers that night must have been bad ...
... felt a bit crunched and wrinkled and had the feeling, the sail should exactly represent that.
... fits ...
...
XXXDAn
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