OK, I had hoped that some of you warship rigging experts might have been able to give me some pointers, possibly with links to photo's. However, despite very little online, or even books about post 3-decker rigging, I am going to make a start adapting what I can find. My incomplete model has hooks that scale two feet diameter with illogically positioned saggy stays right alongside gun barrels.
Refit needed !
Two main sample pics as a start point. Deans HMS Hannibal (ten years earlier), and a painting of a Borodino class from similar year to mine.
Main stays I intend using 1 mm rigging thread, other standing rigging 0.75. Small eyelets into deck in what seems the most logical positions, with tiny shackles which I intend making from thin copper wire. Mast & yard fixing points bound similar to contemporary pictures.
Running rigging using 0.5 mm thread, such as as signal halyards, of which there appear to be loads, to be made up with small single 3 mm wood blocks, plus pin rails with small brass belaying pins as below.
Am I thinking along the right lines here? Please understand I have never done model ship rigging before
At 1/96 scale a big magnifier is needed, I can just about thread the blocks using 5A fuse wire to pull the thread through.
Photos to follow - If I can get the camera to focus that close.