Advice wanted: how to do riggings on very small ships

[terrinecold]

thanks Legion, I didn't know that site. Those ships are so nice I feel bad showing mine.
Anyway I made one more using copper wire for rigging this time. I did it before reading your post. It is almost finished missing some details (crow
's nests, banners, base, ...)

[terrinecold]

Originally Posted by sporticus

Was just wondering if you could find something finer for the spars, they look very chunky in proportion.

Also if you look at my last picture I took this advice in account and used paper clips cut in pieces for the yards. Hopefully the latest look nicer.
I am still recovering from the quality of the ships by war artisan, however the ship I am currently detailing is the last one of this class I am making for a while. Next ships will be more fantasy as they are for elves.

[terrinecold]

a few more updates, I received the eyelets and am now using them with the monofilament thread. I managed to make the thread shrink with heat but burned one in the process, I was using a naked match flame I need a more controllable heat source.
Finally I have built the free model at warartisan and tried rigging it with their method, I ran into problem creating the rigid thread as I didn't have cotton thread just synthetic on hand so I used again the eyelet + monofilament combination. The ship had an accident so I am redoing it but I'll post a picture

[terrinecold]

last update I think, I finished rigging the ship with the little eyelets and monofilament thread, (first picture except for the stay) and the rigging could hardly be seen although it took an awful lot of work. Then I did procure cotton thread to follow war artisan's methodology and I added riggings using this method (stiffening cotton thread with glue then gluing the resulting springy rods to the ship). The results are much better (the other pictures)

[legion]

You could use both types of thread, to simulate different types of rope. But the cotton does look the best in this case.