Bonehead Strikes Again!
Years ago, the lady opened the garage door while I had the full rig up, and snapped off the mizzen topmast and main mast head. I repaired it, though it was difficult as the mast and topmasts are made of white cedar and gluing end-grain does do well at all.
In a photo in the last post, in the upper left of the photo, there are some gray tubes stored up in the garage door tracks. A little over a week ago, I moved the model, with the topmasts un-shipped and t'gallants up, as in the photo, and snapped of the mizzen topmast right at the previous repair. I epoxied it back together, a little sloppily, but I was gonna clean it up later.
Instead, I went and snapped it off again, this time at the doubling. I tried to repair it again, but it was to weak to be of use.
So I made a new mizzen topmast. I don't have any more white cedar long enough, so I used bit of yellow pine from an old cabinet I scavenged some wood from. The picture shows the steps in making the new spar.
Today being a one step forward two steps back kind of day, I started painting the crew figures I 3D printed. These guys are on a portion of the 30-40 squids, marines, officers, and a cat, I plan to man the ship. I don't have the 1850's marine figures, I need to repose a few sailors, and the officer need dis-arming and reposing.