Quote Originally Posted by TexaS View Post
It is not the effect I tried to describe. Your sails don't have the the surface of a sphere. That effect cannot be done in brass sails, unless you go to a smith to make the shape into a sphere.
They have the surface of several cylinders not of a sphere. Fabric doesn't work that way. There's not much you can do about it unless you get cast sails.
Now I understand you, you mean the effect of the sail and the ropes. As the sail is swollen between the ropes. Indeed, this is impossible to represent in this type of material, how you say, it is only possible in a molten material like Lagton minitures sails of white metal.

I have to try to do something that is affordable in time and resources to make this project viable, much to my regret I have to sacrifice small details like the one you have described