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Merry Christmas to you too Frank! Glad to hear the treatments are done. I hope you can get back to building again soon! Best wishes!

Frank, good to hear treatments have finished and life is picked up again. Hope everything turned out as well as may be expected. Hope to see your endeavours at MSW again soon. For now a Merry Christmas and a Healthy and happy New Year to you and your family

OC thank you, my best wishes to you and your lady. Have a Merry Christmas

OC thank you, my best wishes to you and your lady. Have a Merry Christmas

Last boat at the davits, oerlikon platform, and started rigging the fo'csle, first two lower railings done ... in all, nearly three hours work ...
 

Can't wait to see what you found at those shops ...

A pitty you won't build her in a day ... paint her green ... add some red chocolate lifebuoys. Some search, work, and cabin lights ... add RC to switch music channel, and soften or harden the lights ... sounds good to me Sjors!!!

Put her on a chain!!!

Since I built one 40years ago, I'll follow along with the master builder of the "Smit Rotjeknor", by now you should be flawless ...  ... ok I'll retreat into my dark & silent corner
 
I wish Anja & yourself a very Merry Xmas & the best wishes for 2019

OC thank you, my best wishes to you and your lady. Have a Merry Christmas

Last boat at the davits, oerlikon platform, and started rigging the fo'csle, first two lower railings done ... in all, nearly three hours work ...
 

Oeps ... forgot scaling 
 
I like your last idea, Steve On the subject of language/words ... I am a pain in the ... neck

You've been busy mate. A bit blueish but nice and crisp. Merry Xmas and best wishes for the new year to you too

It's like you are building a palazzio ... must have been hard to fit it all together without breaking anything ... very impressive Steven

OC thank you, my best wishes to you and your lady. Have a Merry Christmas

Siegfried,
Good to see you back at the workbench. As I experienced with scale modelling, colours can be very tricky. It isn't only influenced by scale, but also by the modellers wish to use the true, or the scale colour. At this scale I wonder if scale colour could be possible at all. However, I like the way your red turned out, and do hope you find your answer on the lid's rabbet question.
 
 I wish you a merry xmas, but most of all a healthy and happy new year.
 

Last boat at the davits, oerlikon platform, and started rigging the fo'csle, first two lower railings done ... in all, nearly three hours work ...
 

Gunshot proof, no; but weather/waterproof, yes! Certainly Steel (British, 1805) describes the rabbeted style of port lid clearly. Either way, you are building a very lovely model.

Hello,
 
thank you all for your comments and likes. 
 
druxey, I searched all models and paintings of the NMM and Science museum of that time and today also the models till 1850 and did't find any model with a rabbet around the port lid like the Bellona had. And that model is also from around 1780. I had a closer look into Boudriot's 74 gunner(1780), Vol II page 164. At a first look there is no step at the lid, but at a closer view there are steps to the sides. Above is nothing and below they cut the rabbet of the gun port back in the thickness of the inner planking of the lid. So, steps there are only to the left and right of the lid. 
 
When I started with the port lids, I had the Bellona in mind and what I have seen till that on other models, and thought that that is true. But then I realize that all the other contemporary models did’t have that future. I'm long enough re-enactor to understand, that that what all do must not be right. May be it's a short cut of the modeller, or it was really so. May be the outer and inner planking of the lids have together the thickness of the outer planking. For what must they be thicker then necessary, they must not be bulletproof. In combat they are open! And if you have seen more then one Western, you know that even kitchen doors are bulletproof 😮
 
So I really don't know what to do. At least I leave them as they are, without a rabbet. 
 
Carl, yes with that colour it's tricky. But I think I have found the right one. For the models the modellers used often vermillion red. But you could't paint a whole ship with that paint. They used cheaper paint for that based on iron oxide or other cheap pigments. Like the red houses in Scandinavia or the barn red in America. If you see Prince Fredericks bark, in the sun the red is really red, but in the shade it's brown. The same problem I have with this paint now, so I had to make a dozens pictures before I got half-ways the right colour to show you.
 
Doris, my ship is nothing against your beautifully models. You build in a higher class.
 
 
 
 
 

Well, obviously the limit is because of the tools available, not the skill of the model-maker! Perhaps Santa will be kind....

just before Christmas finished my new workshop area.
now to build an special table for sawing and sanding tools including automatic vacuum cleaner which start automatic when I start one of the tools
 
I will make some pictures when Vasa returns to the workshop.

I will not forget it Jan when i will put light in it.
I think i will bring Quartel or Sjaaks hobbyshop a visit to see what they can do for me.

Siegfried,
Good to see you back at the workbench. As I experienced with scale modelling, colours can be very tricky. It isn't only influenced by scale, but also by the modellers wish to use the true, or the scale colour. At this scale I wonder if scale colour could be possible at all. However, I like the way your red turned out, and do hope you find your answer on the lid's rabbet question.
 
 I wish you a merry xmas, but most of all a healthy and happy new year.
 

Today I basically did the same thing as yesterday to 4 more launches. 



today the Tamiya tape worked great  I took the advice of Canute and put the tape on my jeans first,  worked like a charm too. 

Lovely!