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Congratulations to you, Greg, and to David for this wonderful model! So beautiful that I have already ordered the two volumes and hope they arrive soon, maybe one day I can emulate you!

I finished the work on the guns, burnishing and protective matt clear coat:

very fine work!!!  I really like the base of the model!

good work!!

One source of inspiration is surely the splendid Matiz model!...

I have started making guns:

Little metal works for the upper deck. I built myself a jeeg for rings with shanks of various sizes:

Great job, my friend!!

The main bitts:

you are doing a real masterpiece, a sublime model, a true source of inspiration!!

a few steps forward:

After a long time, I have finally reached the end of building the galley stove:

With these few pictures I try to explain how I do my welding. The parts must be well cleaned and kept in contact. With a brush I spread the flux all over the part to be soldered. With a flame soldering iron I heat everything around until the flux starts to boil. Now it is time to apply some of the solder, which is a silver-based rod.

Care must be taken to protect soldering joints already made with a heat-insulating paste

how beautiful is this model!!!??

Beautiful work!!

a few small steps forward:

some small advances. This galley stove is keeping me very busy!

I redid the kitchen hood. I didn't like it.
everything is still temporary

what precision and what cleanliness!!!

you are one of the best modellers I know! Unmatched!

One question: will you leave the rudder hinges in brass or use burnisher?

(How I love those planes of yours!!!)

12 hours ago, Kevin Kenny said:

Also are you cutting the bronze plate on your table saw? They seem so exact. 

12 hours ago, Kevin Kenny said:

I am very envious of your soldering skills. I am not seeing any heat sinks? How are you keeping the previous joints from melting?. 

hello Kevin and thank you for your appreciation.
As you can also see from the last photo, I am using a heat-absorbing paste to protect the soldering done previously and I must say that it works very well!
I simply cut the sheet metal with a pair of scissors as the thickness is very thin (0.25 mm). You can't see it in the photo but I use a wooden counterform for assembly.

continue.....

Continue with the galley stove construction:

start of the galley stove construction:

On 3/5/2021 at 5:23 PM, shipphotographer.com said:

 

 

I've never seen the deck treated with cyanoacrylate before!!!
Isn't there a risk of making it too plasticky?

The gratings:

I have taken a little liberty in interpreting the fore hatch gratings as far as the passage of the elbows is concerned. I was inspired by the work done by Matiz on his Euryalus, although perhaps the eras are slightly different.