giampieroricci

If you've used actual lead, Giampiero, might I suggest sealing it with either acrylic medium or lacquer? It will prevent the lead turning to white lead salts in a few years' time. You've done a great job on a difficult part of the build.

For the coating of the smaller circular scuppers, after having pierced with much trepidation and caution, to avoid spoiling the model, I used a thin lead foil beaten anvil wrapped around a rod of the right size that I used as a guide 'insertion into the hole:

little progress:

scuppers:

Hallo Gary!

I will follow with great interest your work: my next site will be just the Naiad of which I'm already studying the excellent monograph of EdT!

I completed the binnacle of the main bell

the picture is not one of the best ....!

Hatch of the kitchen:

Preparation of the stairway to the deck of the kitchen

great bell:

really wonderful!!!!!

Your method for constructing the steering wheel is really brilliant!!!!

thank you, friends!!

I finished plank of the forecastle:

Your work on the gears of the winch is simply wonderful!!!

I completed the mooring hawsers

Woderful work!!

Hello Ed!

I like very much your little saw!

I'd like to know how you have built it!

Your work is fantastric, as usual!

The gunwale

I moved to the final fixing of the beams of the castle, but before I set the kitchen, the stove and the sill of the bowsprit

tests for positioning the beams

Two little windows:

cook's closet:

The bulkhead which closes the deck and the first beam:

Fantastic!!!!!!!

Continue...:

The cooker for soups:

thanks for your compliments and likes, friends!

.......Do you clean ebony with acetone prior to gluing strakes to the frames?

No. I glued the ebony directly using an aliphatic glue.  

hat kitchen with its fireplace

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