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Brad,
You are right, The foot-ropes are only for the crew to get around the masts. But the stays the foot-ropes are on stopped sideward movement of the masts, so like in life, like in models.
This...

Hi Brad,
I think you are right about what you can see and not see on 1-1200/1-1000 scale ships. But the rat-lines is the one piece of rigging I always would do, as it give strength to the masts of...

Hi Keith,
I have just found this thread. I do like this idea. But I don't think it would add strength to the ship model.
( by the way, off thread I'm not getting thread marks in my in-box over the...