With some colored effects :
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
The two last guns (at right of pic) are now glued, and the last gun-port shows the accessory part for center set :
The thirty guns of first battery are now glued in right place, with those of the two rear gun-ports :
Beginning of cut accessories for support the thirty guns of the second battery (there is nothing actually glued) :
After many historical investigations, I show you our secret weapon of the king Louis XIV against the Dutch navy :
Chardonnay?
No, just Sylvaner, I've no much money to get a precious wine like those of our royal Louis 
On the following pic, there seems that there is no place for shooting the two guns red circled :
I think close the front gun-ports (only used therefore as charge windows, not for shooting bullets)
What do think about this logic conclusion ?
I think close the front gun-ports (only used therefore as charge windows, not for shooting bullets)
What do think about this logic conclusion ?
Following work about the internal view on the second battery with the two frontal gun-ports installed :
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That would work… then and now!
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There were similar discussions on at least one other build log. If I remember correctly, the conclusion was that, depending on the needs of the situation, those canons would be repositioned to be either facing forward (in this case) or facing sideways.
Today works :
absolutely correct.
the gunport towards fore, are pure for chasing another ship, but not during a real action between two ship of the lines.
So these shown gunports were not permanently armed, definitely not in the same time
I've choosen to close the first forward lateral gun-port as shown on my picture, and to arm the two frontal :
As my order for second line of guns takes fifteen days, I continue with the rail's decoration :
The draw of plan at scale 1/72 is impossible, so I have to realize it with similar original well known of Louis XIV
The draw of plan at scale 1/72 is impossible, so I have to realize it with similar original well known of Louis XIV
Other pics, I preview also some simplified representations of Apollo with the brilliant King Sun face :
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Usually, guns were draged from the near forward ports to fire from the bow ports.Firing from the bow guns was usually carried out in pursuit of the enemy.
In short, firing from the running guns became meaningless, because the firing line was blocked by the latrine, bowsprit and rigging with bowsprit sails.
The ports of the running guns were used as "windows" - to ventilate the deck and move cargo to the bowsprit.
Running guns, as such, were abolished. To perform their functions, the forward guns of the operdeck and middledeck were used, which were dragged to the ports in the cheekbones of the hull.
In addition, the front guns on the forecastle (forecastle) could also be dragged to the front rail above the bow bulkhead, in which even special recesses were sometimes made.
By the way, there were also no retrograde guns, most often - the extreme side guns were dragged to the retrograde ports.
In conclusion, it should be said that the very fact of a running or retreating shot is a very doubtful matter. A shot along the axis of the ship (taking into account the peculiarities of the production of a shot from the guns of that time) can be more or less effective in ideal weather and a weakly moving vessel.
The hunting ports of the ships may also be the late heirs of the primitive galley, at a time when the flanks of the ships were occupied by oars, and when the embedded artillery was at its first beginning, there was no other place to install the guns than the front, all the more so that the attack of the galleys was generally carried out in order to spurring the enemy
Today work :
After rail's finition :
