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Thanks Peter

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XXXDAn

I am already wondering, nobody dares asking about the title of the thread

Okokok, before I have to wait too long: dafi, what strange thread title you have ?!?

Once upon a time, the shout from the channels was to be heard "By the Deep 17" meaning a little more than 17 fathoms of water were measured, roundabout 30 meters.

The line used was ca. 20 to 25 fathoms long (about 36 to 45 meters) and had marks indicating the depth measured. So the shout "By the Mark XX" meant that it was exactely on the mark and "By the Deep XX" meant it to be above the mark. The marks were at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17 und 20 fathoms (after Nares) and had :
2 fathoms leather with 2 stripes, 3 fathoms leather with 3 stripes, 5 fathoms white, 7 fathoms red, 10 fathoms leather with hole 13 fathoms blue, 15 fathoms white, 17 fathoms red und 20 fathoms two knots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_line


So hastily made the 20 fathom line, fitted marks and lead ...



... and the sound of the falling lead could be heard













"By the Deep ..."

XXXDAn

Finally, the answer revealed!

HI Daniel

a very original work,almost "poetic"
cheers
Nicolas

Thank you Timmy and Nicolas
I love the "poetic" very much, big extra thanks.

So the next quantum leap, means lot of work for shortest distance possible

Next were the gunport lid topping lifts. A blackened 0,3 mm copper wire wound around a 1 mm needle and cut into rings.



For the next steps I skipped the tweezers and used fine pliers from the electro department, thus reducing the free flights of the parts enormously !

After some tests I did like follow: As the thread was to thin to do a real splice, I held the ring with the pliers ...



... some CA in the U-turn of the tread and twisted counter clockwise ...



.. to get a well enough splice imitation.

Then positiond the ring, hooked in ...



... closed with the pliers ...



... and the lift is in place



The original idea was to imitate the small tube that enters the hull with diluted PVA but now I wanted to try something more tricky.

Some time ago I already presented the trick, that heated and pulled sprue keeps the proportion of its section. So I prepared a 4 mm sprue by drilling a center hole of 2 mm, fixed toothpicks on its ends ...



... and slowly heated it up and pulled to the wanted diameter ...



... then cut 3 mm pieces and fiddeld them on a 0,1 mm copper wire to avoid unwanted escapes. In the front the test topping lift.

Then drilled 0,7 mm holes for the tubes pointing 45� upwards, inserted the tubes, glued them in and cut them to the necessary length ...



... used a needle to reopen the squeezed holes, put the lift in and glued it by fixing with the needle.

And it looks like this:







With a little more practice it will for shure look even tidier macro wise, but for the naked eye it already works

Cheers, Daniel

After a hint I shortend the lead a tad and it now looks like this









Enjoy, Daniel

Did not have too much time lately, but today managed to do a tiny-tiny bit

First lashed the guns as defined by the Navy Board ...



... then tried out the hammock cranes ...





... and with connecting rope ...



...

XXXDAn

Truly fasinating stuff here Daniel.

Your colouring for the side of the ship is something I am looking at in my build, makeing it worn and not to new.
Thanks for the Imput in how you have made the wood look more worn.

Cheers foxy

I'm just amazed. Looks great.

Thanks for showing your process, too.