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Hammock cranes and hammock nettings

The cranes in the kit are white metal and break at the slightest touch. They were replaced here with 1 mm brass tube folded round a wooden jig, so they all come out the same shape. The netting is ordinary fly screen and the hammocks are scraps of cloth dyed in tea.

How-tos (2)

6 steps Hammock cranes from brass tube round a wooden jig
Replace the fragile hammock cranes from the kit with home-made cranes of 1 mm tube, bent round a wooden jig, with a small ring in the filed-open end. 6 steps Hammock netting from the kitchen fly screen and hammocks from tea-dyed cloth
Make the netting between the hammock cranes from a kitchen fly screen and fill it with rolled hammocks of 4 by 3 cm, coloured in rooibos tea and bound with seven whippings on a strip with pins.

Problems you run into here (4)

ProblemFix
Hammock cranes
The hammock cranes from the kit are so fragile that almost all of them are broken.		Made his own from 1 mm brass tube around a wooden former.
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Hammock cranes
Dilemma between flat and round (larger) rings in the hammock cranes.		Still under consideration, based on the Victory.
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Hammocks
There is no netting in the kit for the hammock cranes, only rope.		Used mesh from a kitchen fly screen; 'I am not that happy with the kit anyway. Most of it I make myself.' Pietsan sewed his netting to the cranes with needle and thread and knotted one himself when his starboard net turned out too small (modelbouwforum, 20 May 2016, https://www.modelbouwforum.nl/threads/hms-diana-engels-fregat-uit-1794.211803/page-58#js-post-3704736).
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Hammocks
No method for attaching the nettings to the horizontal rope.		Used a small whipping and pulled the thread through with a loop.
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In the build log

8 January 2025Hammock cranes from tube
New hammock cranes from 1 mm tube bent round a wooden jig, with a small ring set into the filed-open end; flat or round rings is still the question. 5 September 2025Cranes on, netting from the kitchen fly screen
The home-made hammock cranes are on, the netting comes from the kitchen fly screen and the first hammock is a roll of cloth measuring 4 by 3 cm, coloured in rooibos tea.