CRI-CRI

Sorry, the anchor stock was backwards :

Waiting for a delayed wooden delivery, I received the two eight-thousand pounder giant anchors (test  😁) ;

Actual step of built, standing rigging finished and walnut colored and adjusted 

All the standing rigging being finished, I give myself a small shipyard break which I think I've well deserved :

Back stays main mast (All ratlings done = 3106 knots ), I've quasi finished the standing rigging of ship :

Actual step of built :

Evening pics, along rigging my ship : 2048 knots, 68% of the total, I hope you will like it, as I do myself :

Low fore-mast OK (1712 / 2990 knots = 57% done)

Actual step of built :

Here, the sunlight is soon coming back, I've taken this opprtunity to prepare a fast afternoon photo bonus :

Thanks to all my friends modelers !

I send you a link of a diaporama of finished Saint Philippe :

Gallery of finished Saint Philipp

Five gun-ports done :

Three gun-ports done :

No painted finition, I don't like the false grey-green color I tested yesterday,

I also removed the garland tested on bulwarks, a nice result was impossible

"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien"  (Voltaire - Dictionnaire philosophique 1770)  

Test of a gun-port installation :

Following work about garlands of ship’s bulwarks (not glued) :

Hi dear modellers !

I think the grey-green patine is not very realistic, a browned color must be more indicated 

At sea, the bronze get a cooper chloride patine, not a hydro-carbonated one :

The guns of Strasbourg (Officer's Mess near Place de la République) are under acid rains, they show the same patine with church's cooper covers

En français pour Marc : 

Cela n'enlève rien à la qualité extraordinaire de cette réalisation, c'est juste une remarque à propos d'un exemple... que je connais bien  😀 

Regards

Chris

After ending first battery, following work with a detailed test about garlands of ship’s bulwarks :

Twenty-four about twenty-eight guns of first battery (86% done) :

A typical rail in style Louis XIV, more elegant than the monograph's proposition, and realizable at my sense :

2 hours ago, Bill Morrison said:

I'm curious; do you plan to have the decorative rail extend aft as well ?

It's a test of a general idea, I have to find an adapted draw for use on a larger place (I don't like the red proposition of the monograph  😡)  

Test for qualification of a décortive rail in a wooden imitation :