28mm Royal Navy Brig

[AxolotAl]

I'd include the beak but not the bowsprit myself.

[TheWeasel]

Just piggy-backed onto my wife's trip to the local Michaels, and picked up a sheet of plastic canvass. I'll be cutting this up to make the deck gratings. I will concentrate on deck details, and probably move onto the hammock netting and fife rails next.

Some questions i have been pondering:
1. What to use for hammock netting; window screen or tulle?
2. Is this brig large enough to reasonably have a capstan aboard, or would a winch be more appropriate?

[AxolotAl]

They would be canvas, not netting.

http://www.hmsrichmond.org/hamock.htm

A capstan for sure.

On the brig Jefferson it is aft of the mainmast on the weatherdeck (the top deck, with the guns,  the capstan's far enough behind the mainmast to allow folks to turn it with the capstan bars). See this model:

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/model/report3/completed.htm

Also, if you look at that model, on side of the ship with the guns, there's a rolled railing - that's the crew's hammock rolls, tucked into racks at the rails:

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/model/report3/images3/stern3-l.jpg

[Cadet13]

They would be canvas, not netting.

I think he means the nets they store the hammocks in, not a hammock made of nets.



I've used tulle for the hammock nettings on some of my ship models in the past. Pretty easy to work with, which I wouldn't imagine window screen to be.

[AxolotAl]

I do believe you're right. Tulle would look good in scale. I salute those of you who've done realistic vessels. Mine aren't that real.

I'm sitting here this morning looking at the build instructions for the WorldWorksGames 'Maiden of the Seas' model I got for Christmas a few years ago, it would be great for fighting ON but its too big to put out with other vessels (It would dwarf this brig, and all my Pressman pirate ships...
Maybe I can use it once the fight gets going aboard a prize - do the initial combat with a smaller model then move the boarding action to the maiden.

I do wish I had it years ago when I was role-playing.

[TheWeasel]

Sorry for lack of updates - I'll be sewing like a madman trying to get my uniform all finished for a reenactment this weekend. Post event, i'll get back to my brig. Thanks for all the useful comments!

[mweaver]

Very impressive!  I have never attempted to scratch-build anything even a fraction that complicated.

[fastolfrus]

Sorry for lack of updates - I'll be sewing like a madman trying to get my uniform all finished for a reenactment this weekend.

What era?

[TheWeasel]

Appropriate to Swashbuckling Adventures, I portray Crown Forces during the AWI. I'm in the 29th Reg't of Foot, which was featured in an engraving once...

Anyways, back to button holes on breeches!