French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]

[Chris.]

First left side middle battery port-lids done :

 

[Chris.]

With a ten coin :

 

[Chris.]

Evening pic, with port-lids :

 

[Chris.]

Adding the two front port-lids (I slept all morning in my comfortable bed ) :

 

[Chris.]

All upper battery port-lids glued (twenty eight about fifty-eight done) :

 

[Chris.]

Last add-on : the two rear port-lids :

 

[Chris.]

Cut of the eighty-four elements of the low battery port-lids (ten minuts of job ) :

 

[Chris.]

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

 

[Chris.]

Some details were retarded, also had I more time for improvement of esthetic details around presentation base :

 

[Chris.]

Waiting the upper batterie's guns, I've to do ten topsail wooden sheet-bitts to cut as it's shown on down picture :

 

[Chris.]

For waiting my order for guns, I've written a small piano sketch, it was a longtime I kept silence :

[ Happiness (piano) ]

 

[Jimsky]

For waiting my order for guns, I've written a small piano sketch, it was a longtime I kept silence :

[ Happiness (piano) ]

Real Happiness! Bravo! Thanks for sharing, Christian!

 

[Chris.]

First range of wooden bitts, I preview perhaps to insert under that some invisible and solid down brass fixations :

 

[Chris.]

The engraved brass name is ready, I've just to cut its wooden support :

 

[Chris.]

Between these two different presentations of the engraved brass name : what would have your preference ?

 

[Uwek]

The second one

 

[dThomas]

I also vote for number 2!

 

[Bill-R]

I like #2, with the name plate standing.

 

[Herman]

I second the motion for the second.

 

[WojtasS]

#2