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  1. mtbediz
    I think there's been a misunderstanding Peter. I was talking about the rings at the cascabel of the carronades, not the long guns. There shouldn't be rings at the long guns anyway. As far as I see, the carronades you bought from Czechoslovakia do not have those rings. I was wondering how you would add these rings to the carronades. By the way, I started preparing the long guns.
  2. mtbediz
    Thank you for the sketch Peter, what I did is almost the same combination as in sketch. In the photos below, you can see the long gun I prepared and the long gun on the real ship I used as reference.
  3. mtbediz
    The carronades look very nice, I'm just wondering how you would add the loops that the rope goes through.
  4. mtbediz
    Thank you so much Greg.
  5. mtbediz
    The assembly of the guns on the bow side continues. The guns here consist of 4 carronades and 2 long guns.
  6. mtbediz
    As in the rear, at the front of the ship, only the parts of the spar deck where the guns will be located were planked.
  7. mtbediz
    Very good work Greg. I have made two Santa Maria models before. I have build logs for both on MSW. If you wonder how I did things, you can check them out. Maybe you can find something useful there.
  8. mtbediz
    Thanks Greg. I actually hadn't decided how much to cover the spar deck until I reached this stage. At first, I thought of covering only the areas where the carronades would sit in small pieces, but when I tried it, I saw that this disrupted the integrity of the model and did not create a pleasant appearance, so I gave up and made such a planking. This provided the model with a nice appearance and also allowed the gun deck details to be seen. By the way, I was planning to cover the centerline of the spar deck, but I'm not doing that either. I leave it as it is.
  9. mtbediz
    Thank you Jon.
  10. mtbediz
    Thanks Peter, yes I do the seizing first then I install the carronade on the carriage and I glue the eyebolts in the holes I drilled at the bulwarks earlier.
  11. mtbediz
    All carronades at the back of the ship are now in place.
  12. mtbediz
    Great work Peter!
  13. mtbediz
    Thank you Greg. I glue the carriages to the deck with CA because I prefer it to dry quickly. I apply a small drop of CA under the truckles.
  14. mtbediz
    I installed 8 carronades with breech ropes at the starboard side.
  15. mtbediz
    Canopies can be made by soldering brass wires together, omitting the cube-shaped parts at the connection points. That's how I plan to do it. It does not seem possible to reduce these cube-shaped fasteners at this scale anyway.
  16. mtbediz
    Thank you Greg, I created the loops first and then bent them. I didn't try the other way you mentioned, It could be easier, gotta try it.
  17. mtbediz
    I made the double eyebolts for the gun tackles out of 0.5 mm brass wire,blackened and installed them to the bulwarks.
  18. mtbediz
    Everything looks very good. Let me remind that It will be easier to drill the holes for eyebolts and cap squares on the side elements of the gun beds before assembling the carriages.
  19. mtbediz
    Your jig works great Peter.
  20. mtbediz
    Thank you Peter, I understand what you mean.
  21. mtbediz
    Thomas, I didn't notice the two screw type carronades were also there. I checked again and yes they are there. I will try to make them.
  22. mtbediz
    Yes I can see the concept. I was lazy and didn't add this piece under the gun bed in the plans because it wasn't very visible Here is my concept;
  23. mtbediz
    Great start, I will be following.
  24. mtbediz
    It is time to prepare the carronades that will be placed at the aft of the ship. I painted and varnished the carronades. I cut the capsquares from brass sheet, shaped them with the help of a simple tool I made, drilled the necessary holes and blackened them. The next job will be to secure the carronades to the carriages. When everything is put together they will look like in the last photos. I produce the breeching ropes myself with my homemade ropewalk.
  25. mtbediz
    Since I am building this model from scratch, I will need to make this ornament on the bow somehow, but I still don't know how to do it. I hope you find an easy way to do this and I can copy the method.

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