The rigging of period ship models is the most complex task which any modeller has to take on for an eighteenthcentury manofwar boasted mile on mile of rigging more than 1000 blocks and acres of canvas. To reduce this in scale and yet retain an accurate representation is an awesome undertaking. This now classic work untangles the complex web and using some 400 drawings the author shows clearly how each separate item of rigging is fitted to the masts yards and sails. Each drawing deals with onl