Thanks,
The masts, spars and rigging are 100% metal. The lower masts are brass tube, the topmasts copper rod, t'gallant masts silver steel rod. The yards lower yards are brass rod, topsail and t'gallant yards copper rod. The rigging, including ratlines is fine copper wire and the running blocks are blobs of paint. The furled sails are white airmail paper. This is an extremely simple model, and has only taken a few days. I hope to complete the brig itself tomorrow, but still some work to do on the base and display case. The Lord Ripon, below, is something rather more complicated. But sailing ships are far easier to build than steamers, as their hulls are less complicated. The rigging looks complicated, but it is not, but it does involve quite a lot of repetition
Bob