1:600 Conte di Savoia

[JohnRatzenberger]

Good to see you back, Patrick, and with such an impressive result.

Guys, it is worth clicking on Sailorman's 'profile' button and looking at his past posts - unfortunately not very many. Be interesting to get him, vacant, and lonemodeller in a room together ...

[Sailorman]

Hi John,

I'm hoping to semi-retire next year so hopefully you'll see more of me around.

Patrick

[PTB11]

Thats simply outstanding. A work of art.
What do you use for rigging?

[iggie]

What do you use for rigging?

Trained spiders I suspect!

[Sailorman]

Actually I use stretched sprue. I keep assorted colours .... grey, brown etc. The problem is that you cannot tighten it so what I do is fix the lengths in place and then light a match. Holding the model in one hand I "wave" the match under the rigging very, very carefully and heat it up. At a certain point the sprue will "spring" taut. It's a balancing job. You don't want to burn your model......you'd need a lot more heat to melt your model than to tighten the sprue. I sometimes get it wrong and crinkle up the rigging and have to start all over again........I've considered trying a hair drier ... but never got around to doing it.

For goodness sake if you fancy trying it DON'T do it on your model the first time! Try a few dry runs...!

[gnomemeansgnome]

Heh heh! Good advice. Thanks.

[PTB11]

Actually I use stretched sprue. I keep assorted colours .... grey, brown etc. The problem is that you cannot tighten it so what I do is fix the lengths in place and then light a match. Holding the model in one hand I "wave" the match under the rigging very, very carefully and heat it up. At a certain point the sprue will "spring" taut. It's a balancing job. You don't want to burn your model......you'd need a lot more heat to melt your model than to tighten the sprue. I sometimes get it wrong and crinkle up the rigging and have to start all over again........I've considered trying a hair drier ... but never got around to doing it.

For goodness sake if you fancy trying it DON'T do it on your model the first time! Try a few dry runs...!

Thanks for the description.
It sounds like a recipe for disaster if I tried that!

[celt]

Thats well tidy.

[ShaunW]

That, Patrick, is a bloody masterpiece!!!!!

(Re tensioning stretched sprue - I use a pin which has been heated up in the flame of a candle held firmly in a small pair of pliers, it can be a little nerve wracking but it does the job)

[splash]

Fantastic work.

Thank you for sharing you techniques.

Regards Splash

[Marek]

Speachless. I salute you!