First left side middle battery port-lids done :
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
With a ten coin :
Evening pic, with port-lids :
Adding the two front port-lids (I slept all morning in my comfortable bed 
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All upper battery port-lids glued (twenty eight about fifty-eight done) :
Last add-on : the two rear port-lids :
Cut of the eighty-four elements of the low battery port-lids (ten minuts of job 
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Except fourteen on right side of main low battery, all port-lids are now finished and glued :
My order for upper battery guns (twenty-eight brass pieces thirty-five mm) were announced for to morrow
My order for upper battery guns (twenty-eight brass pieces thirty-five mm) were announced for to morrow
Some details were retarded, also had I more time for improvement of esthetic details around presentation base :
Waiting the upper batterie's guns, I've to do ten topsail wooden sheet-bitts to cut as it's shown on down picture :
For waiting my order for guns, I've written a small piano sketch, it was a longtime I kept silence :
[ Happiness (piano) ]
[ Happiness (piano) ]
Real Happiness! Bravo! Thanks for sharing, Christian!
First range of wooden bitts, I preview perhaps to insert under that some invisible and solid down brass fixations :
The engraved brass name is ready, I've just to cut its wooden support :
Between these two different presentations of the engraved brass name : what would have your preference ?
The second one
I like #2, with the name plate standing.
I second the motion for the second.
