The rigging on the foremast looks good but a tad bit tight this early on into your rigging. What you are seeing in the pic is not lense distortion but actual bending of the foremast if you made it slightly loose
you could rig your masts and still allow for the eventual tightening and slackening due to humidity. As it stands now once you finish rigging your ship you could come back and find all of your masts snapped due to tension.
Mikeym us,
Well, I just touched all the lines and can’t say they’re too tight. However, if the A/C over the summer has a different effect than the forced air heating has had over the winter, I’ll be somewhat taken aback. Then again, being retired, I might just build her again (with the knowledge of how I’ve screwed up thus far it might be a better build [:D]
Mike S.
Brother Big Jake, I love those premade eyebolts. They revolutionized my plastic ship modeling world!
Those are probally too big for the scale but it what I had at the time. I’ve been making up them with small diameter wire as I go right now.
Hi Mike,
caught your post and I have exactly the same question!! I’m where you were at 8 years ago. What did you ever end up doing? If you can remember? lol