Now the stern is complete!
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Moving onto the rigging, first the upper shrouds
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Airfix provide these lovely jigs, as you see I have 3 (from the Victory, Wasa and an old one). The instructions give you the guide which notches to use, and ta-da. I then use wood glue, liberally spread over where the vertical overlaps the horizontal
All you do is then snip the strings and end up something like with this (a tester from earlier)
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Any guesses on how I coloured the string?