Fine rigging
At last I seem to have found a rigging material which looks to scale
actually it's a tip from Jim Bauman I "borrowed" a pair of laddered tights from my wife should have bought her a black pair it turned out. Then it's a case of learning to pull threads from the "thick" knit at the top. It's suprisingly easy after a few trys you have to pull very steadily to get a good long length. Wind it onto a bit of spare card you now have enough rope for several thousand ships. It has some good properties when you snip to length it rolls itself up into an invisible little ball so no waving lighted fags around. It is incredibly strong in fact it is acting as guy ropes for the sagging gantries. Sticks well with a very small quantity of pva glue.
When the thread is not in tension it looks really fuzzy and useless for rigging
Caution tell the woman in your life what you want her old tights for otherwise you could get some very funny looks.
It leads to some interesting thought on ships rails asyou can pull it really tight and it is not obtrusive.
The pictures are not good difficult to get the lines to show up even in macro mode.
@Paul
There is a 1/200th model out at the moment and that looks better than anything I can do you might tempt me to do Bulwark after Tarawa.