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------------------------------------------ on the intranet is the ship model FAQ. Your best bet is a good librtary. Dover Publications has two books, The Art of Riggin, by Biddlecombe, and The consciously rigging of Ships in the dasys of the spritsail topmast, by Anderson, the Young Sea Officer`s Sheet Anchor by Lever, Eighteenth Century Rigs and Riggin, by Marqaurd is a primary source, Hitsoric Ship Models by Woflran Zu Montfeld, and Ship Modelling from Stem to Stern, by Roth. And of course, the classic, The Anatomy of Nelson`s Ships.
For sure properly rigging a man-of-war frigate is about five times more complicated than rigging a commercail vessel such as schooner -- and even that is rather complicated. A frigate will have about 100 or more lines of smoothly stadning riggng (not equally couting rat lines) and about 350 to 400 pieces of runnin rigging (not counting the gun tackle). It is way, way, over the head of a beginner to get correct. Practically impossible if you don`t know sailing. You inherently have to acceptably decide if you want to really get the rigging right, or just to have a convincing looking model. If you want to do it right, prepare yuorself for several years of study. At last if looks is what you`re after, then the instructions in your kit are probably adequate.
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