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Finished and glued, except the toilets each side (not the most difficult detail 😀) :

Hi Bill,

The photos #348 you quoted were taken before rectification of colors (too much red component)

Those joined with message #351 are better, with exactly the same effect than real gratings of my HMS Prince (also 1 X 1 mm holes) :

I shall finish and publish the final result this afternoon

Best regards,

Interesting sunlight over the figure head :

Thanks Dave,

I have the same view about the result of paper prints after correction of color, I have a model with wooden version, any difference :

You can find here the announced test using paper prints :

What do you think about ?

It's possible to transform it in a wooden version, but neither for the same price, nor the same working time 

Wooden gratings = 4 - 8 € a piece 50 x 50 mm, and the model shows a 50 cm length full line of these damned things

It's also very difficult to give a regular convexity about a so long line of gratings

I shall test my idea on the beakhead frame without gluing it, and the result will decide about following process

Notice that all windows of back quarter and quarter badges of my model are soon paper prints, and were also... painted on real ancient ships

I've any tool for wooden self-making such details, and no money for buy it, the products on line being most often in a very poor quality wood

Wait and see  😀

Here, a new test of paper cut, which cannot be immediately detected as false gratings :

Other reason : the important size of the upper deck's gratings with their convex shaping ;

On the Saint Philip, there are many gratings to do

I have the choice between false gratings at right scale 1/72 or real wooden gratings at false scale 1 mm squarred each hole :

What do you prefer ?

Thanks

Now, all is done and glued about the head part of the Saint Philippe :

Figure head done (not glued) :

Saint Philip received his cross, his secret weapon against the heaven monster :

St Philip killing the monster (I don't know if it is my carving which seems so monstrous ...) :

Today work about transom of right cat head (not glued) :

A creative transom for cat head (I unlike the proposition of the monograph about this object) :

Some enforcing accessories about the cat heads :

First cat head test, without problem (not glued) :

Pussy cut or cut of the two cat heads (handy made, of course...) :

Following carving work about the figurehead :

Beginning of carving, difficult with two figureheads into one, a beast behind, and the Saint-Philippe over :

A great moment of ship's built : the beginning of the basswood figure-head, I can rejoice...  😀

Without fore quarter-deck (as required about french vessels less than hundred guns), I had to rectify the beakhead frame's gun ports :

This morning, two new pics with sunrise light :

Hi, dear specialists of old french ships

I were curious to know your opinions on historic restitution of the Saint-Philippe 1693 by Lemineur (Ancre ed.)

It seems to me that the monograph shows a sister-ship of the Soleil Royal, which is... an unknown model, a copy of an imaginary vessel  😀

Interesting work, but without any historic pretention

Regards,

Chris   

This evening, the fourth and last pair of head-timbers is done (adjusted and glued) :