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Following cut of guns carriages :
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First group of low battery guns cut :
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The modeller shall rejoice : ... with a circumstance adapted music :
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Preparing cut of gun carriages :
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Prototype of simplified gun carriage of 1st battery (twenty eight to do...) :
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I received my guns of first battery (they will be grey-green colored, they were the only brass guns of this ship) :
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Right side of ship completed, next step, first battery with twenty-eight brass guns :
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Simulation of the final presentation :
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Grey color for the layout base of the model :
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Adding some details on upper gun-ports :
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Following works :
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Finished and glued, except the toilets each side (not the most difficult detail 😀) :
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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,
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Interesting sunlight over the figure head :
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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 :
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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
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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 😀
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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 ;
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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
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Now, all is done and glued about the head part of the Saint Philippe :
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Figure head done (not glued) :
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Saint Philip received his cross, his secret weapon against the heaven monster :
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St Philip killing the monster (I don't know if it is my carving which seems so monstrous ...) :
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