AKERBOOM 1681 after Ab Hoving nominally 1/66 but drawings in 1/64

Hello my dear Friends,

today I started with a doubt in my mind:
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Is this cut right? Isn't it to show the edge of the deck? And the same question is certainly for the deck above, too.

I am totally irritated. Can I please get some help?
 
I thought you wanted to keep the lower gunports closed. If you do want to place guns there you might also mount a 'wall' one or two centimeters behind the gunports and attach your barrels there.
 
That is an interesting solution - as with the old Airfix HMS PRINCE! Just better as deeper.

I have learned by zu Mondfeld and before at the NMM guided visit in 1984:

A.
all gunports lids at all decks are open and all barrels run out (deciding for chease guns and transom guns - leaving the most fore and aft' side gunports empty!)

B.
all gunport lids stay closed and guns secured with barrel up and fixed by ropes to position

C.
hull model (Admirality Style) with open lids but without guns and deck furniture (Marshall paintings of Georgian ship models)

D.
hull/block model (simplyfied type) with gunports drawn only onto the hull to imagine "closed lids".


Did I foreget about anything inbetween?

So I did think about version A. or C. If this is possible for a Dutch shipmodel.
 
GIDEON 1664 - 1/64 in 2mms cardboard

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Dear Friends,

due to effectivity reasons l decided to use my "friday group" (participating of a room of a sewing group near my flat) to go also for the 140' bestek - and trying 2,00 mms book binders cardboard and archiving real progress by having a contemplativ atmosphere of concentration surrounding me for good:
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In here aiming for the "GIDEON 1664" - so I do not have to interchange between three different ships - but only between JACINTHE 1823 and two Dutch transoms as recent model builds.
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So further on I will given a bolden nameplate GIDEON or AKERBOOM above the article to distinguish the projects for your (and me).
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'Do not bite more than you can cew!"

And I did got a special pink cutting board being to the only man in a herd of (partly very grumpy) ladies fighting their sewing maschines:
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So here we are now - next stop Hobby Store purchasing 2mm book binder cardboard for this card yard. By this figuring out and undoing the question: And it is really easier to work with due to the clear measurement of 2mms?
 
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