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CRI-CRI
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Second pair of standing lifts on the topsail yard, which is soon prepared with all its different blocks :
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First pair of standing lifts on the cross-jack misain yard, which is soon prepared with all its different blocks :
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The four lower yards were being installed with a laborious preparation of their different blocks and footropes :
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Real simulation :
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Late pics of my shipyard :
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Later, it will be like this precedent model (Royal Caroline 1749) :
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Sorry, the anchor stock was backwards :
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Waiting for a delayed wooden delivery, I received the two eight-thousand pounder giant anchors (test 😁) ;
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Actual step of built, standing rigging finished and walnut colored and adjusted
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All the standing rigging being finished, I give myself a small shipyard break which I think I've well deserved :
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Back stays main mast (All ratlings done = 3106 knots ), I've quasi finished the standing rigging of ship :
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Actual step of built :
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Evening pics, along rigging my ship : 2048 knots, 68% of the total, I hope you will like it, as I do myself :
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Low fore-mast OK (1712 / 2990 knots = 57% done)
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Actual step of built :
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Here, the sunlight is soon coming back, I've taken this opprtunity to prepare a fast afternoon photo bonus :
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Thanks to all my friends modelers !
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I send you a link of a diaporama of finished Saint Philippe : Gallery of finished Saint Philipp
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Five gun-ports done :
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Three gun-ports done :
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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)
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Test of a gun-port installation :
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