Rigging the Fletcher

Modeling Subjects Ships
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I am hoping someone can help me with a link for this. I am coming down to the wire (no pun intended) with my 1/350 Fletcher and for the life of me cannot find a decent rigging plan. It may be my search wildcards on google are jacked, but its become a frurstration point. Does anyone have a link to a good rigging diagram. Appreciate the assist ahead of time.

R/JB

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Rigging plans and other detail information in the Floating Drydock’s Fletcher-class plan eBook

http://floatingdrydock.com/books.html

Its a great reference

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Wolfp,

I had the same problem with my Fletcher. I decided to forego the book and downloaded numerous images off the internet. I discovered that not all Fletchers were rigged exactly the same, close, but not the same. The issue was in how the rigging ran aft of the mast, so I had to pick a design which I thought approximated the rigging on the ship I was modeling (DD658 - a square bridge Fletcher). Motion Models has very good pics of their custom built model DD’s from which you can get a good idea of how to run rigging. I have no idea how accurate their rigging schemes are.

http://www.motionmodels.com/index.html

Jim

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Hey,

Thanks for the assist. This helped alot.

R/JB