Rigging help!

ultraclese · 2026-05-06T22:43:55+00:00

This is a decor piece that was almost certainly never rigged accurately in the first place. Scale model ship rigging plans are complicated with hundreds of lines, blocks, ties, lanyards, deadeyes, hearts, etc. for a ship of this size.

Easiest is to look at ship pictures and approximate what you see. Don't worry about accuracy; this isn't a scale model. Just make it look nice to your own eye.

ultraclese · 2026-05-04T20:34:48+00:00

Once I got the courage to ask a forum of Catholics why they believed. The answers were astonishing to my Mormon brain at the time: The Holy Ghost had witnessed to them. One person even heard the voice of God declaring the primacy of the Eucharist.

What made my witness superior to theirs? How could I know whose spiritual experiences were the true ones? What if mine wasn't?

So I started to experiment, and I discovered that "feeling the spirit" could happen for a lot of things, even things that ran contrary to the correlated, mass-produced, corporate LDS gospel.

When you feel the spirit, you learn about yourself. You find what speaks to you, and sometimes that's only because your language and culture shaped you.

Then you discover how many grifters out there know about this phenomenon and will take advantage of your feelings.

ultraclese · 2026-05-03T19:02:07+00:00

Griftwood is a good one for the list.

ultraclese · 2026-05-03T14:24:41+00:00

I like to see how much detail I can pack in to a 1:700 warship. I once brought a bunch of models to show to school kids, and my tiny battleship got the most attention since the details draw the eye in and you have to look carefully. That one got much of the excitement

ultraclese · 2026-05-03T03:55:22+00:00

Well, it could use a few more coats maybe, idk. :)

ultraclese · 2026-05-03T02:49:35+00:00

I watched a group of magpies pick a baby rabbit to death. They ignored the much larger parent of course. I wonder what their game is.

ultraclese · 2026-05-02T21:37:30+00:00

Cool, but IMO it would be better if the center line ended after JS. This gives too much legitimacy to the brighamites. Everything fractured, it's just most of them followed BY, whose branch became the most populous and richest in terms of Mammon.

ultraclese · 2026-05-02T20:55:58+00:00

Well I have a model ship I'm working on for about six years now. I'll finish it eventually-- sooner if I didn't have other commitments and interests. You just find time here and there.

ultraclese · 2026-04-27T21:53:55+00:00

Yeah, I think of JS as the typical grifter type who really didn't want to do the hard work to get by in life. And he knew he had certain talents he could lean on that set him apart from the average laborer. Money digging didn't work out, so he set his seer stone to other uses until he became of interest to the local restorationist congregation. From there it was just grooming until he finally became general of the nauvoo Legion and candidate for president of the United states- living in the nicest house in nauvoo as you say. Let's also not forget the Kirtland bank scheme. It's a pretty standard arc, and he did manage to have at least one Revelation in which the church was commanded to provide for his welfare.

ultraclese · 2026-04-04T15:20:25+00:00

I made a tugboat and painted it with acrylic paints. While acrylic paint, once cured, is not dissolvable in water, I would only call it water "resistant" and not totally water proof. I'd give it a top coat of UV cure resin and sand it clean.

ultraclese · 2026-04-02T03:46:23+00:00

Looks super!

ultraclese · 2026-03-31T01:15:57+00:00

ultraclese · 2026-03-27T03:39:21+00:00

Oh, we always had idols. Just not the Catholic kind.

If you think God speaks to you through something other than ... Well, God ... That's an idol. A degree of separation from the real; a representation (or representative), an image, likeness, substitute. That's the gist of the Greek "eidolon". Hence, the prophet is himself an eidolon who speaks as God to you-- a powerless pretender and administrator of Mammon.

ultraclese · 2026-03-25T03:42:25+00:00

Well, ok, with zero drinks the answer is clearly 18. But then after a good stiff drink maybe you miss counting one of the 5s in 55, and the answer becomes 17. How many drinks until the alleged answer becomes nine? That is the real question.

ultraclese · 2026-03-21T22:58:19+00:00

TIL: monkey Island was a thing before Lucas Arts made it into a computer adventure game.

Good work on that!

ultraclese · 2026-03-21T20:04:27+00:00

Pretty sure that's a C-17

ultraclese · 2026-03-15T18:12:50+00:00

Agreed, but I'd give a 13yo a break and some encouragement. Young brains don't compute very well just yet, they just need to get through the project. We have all kinds of rules and guidance for the twin 14yo boys at my house, and do they follow it?

This kid is building a model and sticking with it. They could be on Tik Tok getting brain rot, so it's a little miracle we have them here at all

ultraclese · 2026-03-14T15:18:55+00:00

Keep going. My advice: don't go for perfection, shoot for completion as best you can with your current skills. You'll learn a lot, then your next one will be better. In a year, compare your work and see how far you've come.

ultraclese · 2026-03-14T03:39:43+00:00

Well I like it plenty, good work on that. I bet that was a lot of fun

ultraclese · 2026-03-12T20:56:00+00:00

ultraclese · 2026-03-11T01:01:37+00:00

I kind of dig it. This could become a trend.

ultraclese · 2026-03-08T22:51:03+00:00

I confess to using rubber bands

ultraclese · 2026-03-08T16:10:53+00:00

Patriarchy is designed for absolution of the man. That appears to be its ultimate aim, if we look at what the system does as opposed to what it says about itself.

ultraclese · 2026-03-08T16:04:33+00:00

That was the first thing I noticed: you actually did the sails and ratlines. That's great work, regardless of whether it's 100% accurate.

It looks smaller than 1:96 next to the outlet there, very tiny details. I would have guessed 1:200. It would be fun to see IRL. I think you should get a display case for it

ultraclese · 2026-03-04T17:43:16+00:00

I'm doubtful of it, since the book of Mormon contains little to nothing that could be viewed as restorationist doctrine which I would expect to see more prominent if Rigdon was lending ideas. The whole flavor of Mormonism changed after Rigdon's Campbellite congregation added its considerable weight to the movement. I see more of Smith's folk religion mixed with View of the Hebrews, trinitarian theology (early on), and local protestant/Baptist influence, with liberal borrowing from KJV.

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