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mtbediz

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  1. The carronades look very nice, I'm just wondering how you would add the loops that the rope goes through.
  2. The assembly of the guns on the bow side continues. The guns here consist of 4 carronades and 2 long guns.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. All carronades at the back of the ship are now in place.
  8. 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.
  9. I installed 8 carronades with breech ropes at the starboard side.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. I made the double eyebolts for the gun tackles out of 0.5 mm brass wire,blackened and installed them to the bulwarks.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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;
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. I've never worked with plexiglass. I had dreamed of cutting the deck as a whole from plexiglass. Of course, cutting it into strips and gluing them can also be considered. But since the plexiglass is transparent, I do not know whether the adhesive layer to be applied will cause a bad appearance. I think that if we cut and glue the deck as a whole, we can more easily camouflage the stains that will arise from the glue.
  19. Dear friends, thank you all so much for the encouraging comments.
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