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Adding some etymology: Αλέξ-ανδρος is composed out of two words, Αλέξ from the verb αλέξω meaning push away, and ανδρός from the word άνδρας meaning man. Man is άνδρας (nominativ) του ανδρός ( genitiv) So Αλέξανδρος its the strong and brave one, "the one that pushes men away", men is referred to the enemy's men. So in the case above it could have been written Άλεξ (as it exists as a word) but never Αλεξαν... which that would be the word Άλεξ plus the two first letters of the word ανδρος... cant be.... its nonsense. Ps. I apologise for writing all these, it makes me most probably look like a "wise guy" or a smart-***... but ancient greek its my pet subject and I always really enjoy talking about it. Hope that some of the stuff is useful or interesting and apologies again.

Thank you Jeff. Am following you step by step, its clever and also a challenge what you do! Am waiting for your new uploads. Christos

Planking the main deck. Finishing with highlighting the caulking of the planks with a pencil, as well as the plank nails. And finishing with two passes of a satin matt varnish.

ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ Looking that my first though is: In nomimativ is AlexanDROS. Here, is genitive... AlexanDROU. Meaning "of Alexander's", showing in this way that it belongs or it refers to Alexandros. That is... the ship, or the picture, or whatever "of Alexander", "of" belonging/referring to him. Now, ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ its nomimativ and clearly means, Alexander from Miletus (Μίλητος) (ref.to a historically very important ancient greek city of Anatolia in the Ionian region, on the western Aegean Sea coast -present day Turkey ), meaning simply and definitely that Miletus is his home city. Still why is the name written twice? (Peculiarity?) Actually and more precisely its written : ΑΛΕΞΑΝ_ _ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ. Can that be that this way it designates the person in the picture as Alexan the son of Alexandrou from Miletus? Example: My son's name is Andreas and my name is Christos, so it can be said "Andreas ChrisTOU" (genitive), meaning Andreas the son of Christos. (Commenting Alexandros as the name of both father and son, it can be said, that it was oft at that time, that the son and father had the same name). So this possibly is the case here. Otherwise there is only just a repeat of the name, which again, that would have been meaningless. Concluding I have to add, that ΑΛΕΞΑΝ as a word (as a name) of it self -I believe- its incomplete and had never existed. The complete and proper name was (some grammar): Ο ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ (nominativ) ΤΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (genitiv) ΤΟΝ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΝ (acusativ) ΤΩ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΩ (dativ) Ω ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕ (vocative) Ofcourse it can be that it was originally written ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ (and not ΑΛΕΞΑΝ) ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ and simply the last four letters have been damaged. If this is the case, then this makes sense: Alexander, son of Alexander from Miletus Christos

Cannons on board. The 26 x 12 lb cannons are on board. The 6 lb cannons are waiting on shore the construction of the main deck.

I think its normal Let it for some time on power until it reaches and keeps its working temperature.. that shall clean it up and end the smoke. Stay there and watch it to be on the safe side.

@mtbediz thank you very much

There are three different cannon sizes on board. The 12 lb cannons (26 pieces as the 1779 ship), the 6 lb cannons (16 pcs/ 1779 ship carried only 8 pcs) and the 1 lb swivel cannons (2 pcs/1779 ship 10 pcs).

The 12 lb Cannons, line production. She carried 26 of those and 6 cannons of 6 lb.

Thank you very much for your response and for the links. Christos

Gun-deck going on

Great work! Congrats. Am going to follow you... am anxious to see the end result... putting sails on this beautiful build I imagine thats a challenge and I believe thats going to be an event for all of us modellers. I think nobody did this build with sails.

Dutchman... I have just noticed you are building again! This time no explorations... no finding a new world. "A British Royal Yacht"... This time you became an aristocrat! May be you won the Netherlands lotto. I know the panart model... its a dream kit. She is a beauty and I know your work, you ll do a great job. Am following you. Viel spass. Christos

the details of the glazed window/gun-port and that of bow chaser gun-port closed (hinged port lid)

Thats the last gun-port, actually the glazed window of Lafayette's cabin.

Finished the gun-ports lining. There are 15 gun-ports on each side. The last gun-poet before the ship's stern had no cannon, it was a glazed window of Lafayet''s cabin(same on the other ship side for Lafayette's second). The first gun-ports on each side, near the cheeks of the head, are the bow chaser gun-ports (firing at pursued ships). Both have hinged port lids to avoid water from large waves entering the ship. All the other gun-ports -when not in use-had a false lid.

@jud I do agree with you. I add just to all you wrote, my view for the upper part. As I wrote above my beieve is that the panel (basin) on the top deck (where the ducts sit in) had water in it and it was made from cooper or most possibly it was made with riveted cast iron plates.

@Gaetan BordeleauOh yes! I see now. For the upper case, the copper, yes I think its ok, but for the lower deck, as @Judechar also meant, ead has a melting point at ca. 300° C, which means it doesnt seem to be the proper material for that area. I believe that maybe thin copper plates would have been more proper, given the fact that copper has a melting point over 1000° C, about as also cast iron has, of which the stove was made of. Of course lead its better than plane wood... it gives protection to the wood deck in order that it doesnt catch fire. So may be after all, lead was used at that time. I dont know. Christos Ps is that your build? Its lovely!

@Gaetan BordeleauSorry my english is not the best. I still dont get it what are you saying to me.

@jud hi. I never spoke about lead. I said its metal. I added it could have been cast iron, less chances for copper.As the stove's metal parts, which most probably would have been cast iron.The ducts yes those could have been copper.

@Gaetan Bordeleau thank you for dropping in. Great pictures there! Is it a model you build? You mean the basin (panel) on the main deck is copper and the roof of the stove (on the lower deck) is lead. Christos

You are an artist! I told you that before... but this is far over and beyond ship model building. This is pure art. Congrats dear friend astonishing! Christos

Proceeding with the gun deck. Lining of the walls and the inside of the gun ports. And the waterway's harder reinforcing wood (stained) is connecting the deck floor with the walls. It has a concave profile in order to drain the water at the scuppers. (I dont know why but the AL instruction show a concave waterway!)

Absolutely! Its the best kit ,I have ever build. Its quality, quality and quality... in japanese!

Thank you sir