Concept to Reality
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Design stages
Building the hull
Deck details and masts (2 of 3) 
Rigging and Sails
Shipping
Maintenance
Building and erecting the Masts
Once most of the deck and hull detailing is done, the masts are built, and only fixed in position once they are fully completed with tops and half-moons etc.
Yards, gafs, and booms are left off, until after some of the standing rigging such as the stays and shrouds have been applied. The image below shows masts at different stages of construction.
It is at this point that the model is really starting to resemble a tall ship. The last deck details are created and applied, and an amount of staining, painting and detailing has to be done before we can continue with the next major construction phase: completion of the rigging.
We extensively use airbrushing techniques for large and small surfaces, since the scale layers of paint are much harder to re-create with brushes that are 60 to 100 times larger than those used to paint the real-size original.
