I also don't like very much this color, effectively too green and with an irregular result after a long, long time of process
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
At sea, oxydation get a cooper chloride, more brown than a carbonate, which would be more green
I think that the best for these guns is the natural unvernished brass, which will become weathered alone 
All carriages sides cut (twenty-eight done) :
First duplicata of low battery gun (all carriages are now ready for receive their guns) :
Beginning installation of guns on carriages for the first thirty-two pounder battery :
Ten guns with carriages about twenty-eight (36% done) :
Sixteen guns on carriages about twenty-eight (57 % done) :
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I received basswood planks 4 mm thick for mini-desks of guns (twenty done about twenty-eight = 72%) :
Test for qualification of a décortive rail in a wooden imitation :
A typical rail in style Louis XIV, more elegant than the monograph's proposition, and realizable at my sense :
Twenty-four about twenty-eight guns of first battery (86% done) :
After ending first battery, following work with a detailed test about garlands of ship’s bulwarks :
Following work about garlands of ship’s bulwarks (not glued) :
I decided to remove the garlands, the round gun-ports are not equidistant, with any possibility of regular draw 
A gun-port installed :
Three gun-ports done :
