Soleil Royal by EricWiberg - Heller - 1/100 - PLASTIC - started 45 years ago

[EricWiberg]

Ahhh, this summer weather and outdoor activities - too many to count! - are minimizing the time that I spend in the basement working on SR. Winter will be here soon enough....

 

A brief post, as I am wrapping up work on Trophy Of War #11... one more TOW to go.

 

 

 

 

[EricWiberg]

And there is TOW #12.. designed to fit into this small space..

 

 

Here is a broadside view, with the TOW's in no particularorder. Toward the stern, where the wales sweep up, I will use a 0.5mm thick backing plate (that matches the wale thickness) to sit the TOWs directly on the wale...

 

[Hubac's Historian]

I can see the appeal of having the trophies stay in-line with the run of the ports, but I am thinking that these ornaments would not cross the wales on the aft two ports.

 

On the DR of 1680, as the wales are cut by the ports, albeit not to the same degree, the ornaments remain on the planking between wales:

 

[EricWiberg]

Marc, that picture is very helpful!