L'Artésien 1764 - 64 Kanonen-Schiff in 1:48 nach Plänen von Jacques Fichant

Your wife did a perfect job. It looks great.

Wow! Fantastic outcome!

Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm very pleased that you like my work!
Tobias, as a true gentleman, I've taken over from the wife at work.

Hi,
you're doing a really great job.
I hope that while your wife is working on the model ship, you're taking care of the household.

Hello everyone!

Johann @archjofo, admittedly, I was keeping a close eye on your work


The internal sanding is now complete. The first pictures show the sanding process until a uniform surface is achieved.


















The small filler pieces between the frames were given their final shape to allow water to flow towards the keel. This was done using a Dremel tool, a 1mm milling cutter (right) and a 2mm round milling cutter (left, the finished shape).




The nostrils were also made at the same time. The measurements were transferred to each frame individually and produced using a milling cutter and square file.







That's all for now, and now I'm heading back to my shipyard.


Regards
Andreas

A beautiful hull and some beautiful pictures of your superb fairing!

Love the lines of the bow.

Also, the run of the filler pieces in the below image is mezmerising!

Thanks for sharing!

Clean work, Andreas.

Wow! That's a nicely faired interior hull! Bravo!

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for your likes and comments. It really motivates me to keep going.

Now let's move on to the (two-part) keelson with its slurry sticks. These were milled according to the plans and installed after further adjustments to the ship. I spent a long time considering how to implement the bolt on this ship. A dark square piece of wood, 0.8 mm thick, for milling or cutting to size. I couldn't find any fiberglass square rods in these dimensions either. I have silver or brass wire available as square pieces, but I want to keep the bolt dark this time, which also rules out bluing it later. So I decided to use a steel sheet cut to size and carefully press it into the wood, where the square hole will be filled with wax. I adopted the bolt arrangement from the French 1:36 scale build log.



















Thus, this work is also completed, and I can once again fully dedicate myself to the rear design.

Regards
Andreas

Looks good Andreas - I too wanted a darker bolt as well on my build. However I just used nickel square wire on the hold planking in the hopes it will tarnish over time

This could be a great idea to use to simulate treenails - I may have to experiment with this technique.

Lovely work, Andreas. I have seen the 'filled-in' method previously, but you are the first one to not have residue scraped into the area around the simulated bolt. Well done!

Incredible result with the dark wax filling the square pressed in holes.

Did you use a scraper to remove any excess wax? I would think sanding or rubbing would spread the wax into the surrounding wood...???

Thanks for sharing your wonderful work and techniques with such good photos!

Your model is aiming for a very high level, thank you for sharing your explanations.