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Chris.
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Forecastle deck, not glued (I'm waiting to add the accessories before final installation) :
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Today's work on the forecastle, with preparation of future accessories :
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Today, the question was how ensuring the verticality of the fore-mast, has just been quickly resolved :
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First draft of the ship's forecastle :
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Fifty-two gun carriage's wheels installed (this is half of the 12-pounder battery) :
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Guns in progress, half done :
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Preparing work about fore half-deck :
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following preparation work about back stern of ship :
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All 18 pounder guns carriages ready for install their... 104 wheels :
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Today work about upper gun-desk (16 about 26 now prepared) :
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Today work about 18 pounder guns :
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Today work about guns : *
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Cut of upper gun-desk :
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After some small corrections :
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Evening enlightenment :
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Well, here's where the real fun begins : I'll need to reproduce the wooden tympanum, then add the overhanging cornice, so it looks all like the two photo simulations below : As an appetizer, I finished the decorative rail of the balcony, and I have to try to copy the tympanum in bas-relief, using the Proxxon D50 on a 5 mm plank
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As I'm waiting a delivery of a 3 mm walnut plank for the guncarriages, I've done a first test for the rail below back stern, which I can only see in photos : Next step: the upper escucheonl, which I plan to mill from a boxwood plank
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The upper windows are finished, the lower ones are at first step (ending will be done tomorrow) :
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I can renew the ancient windows of the Saint Philippe also scaled 1/72, and ready for use, with exactly the same size :
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A quick draft of a cross, the final version will receive a much more careful treatment :
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2nd quarter-gallery done :
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2nd quarter-gallery beginning :
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First quarter-gallery done :
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Bonus photo :
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