Thanks all my friends, here is the result in evening enlightened pic (I'm waiting now about third batterie's guns) :
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French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
I got the last guns (twenty eight pieces on preparation), a little too short, at my taste, but I've not other choice :
Upper view of the "top gun" :
My first two guns have got a quick make-up, their mouth has now a real cheese of star :
Completed test for the guns of my third battery, with adding some significative accessories :
Nine carriages for upper guns done, without small accessories, except the first one I use as a frame for all others :
Under artificial enlightenment, the provisory alignment of the upper gun's carriages seems a little more visible :
To morrow, I begin the right side of upper guns... This afternoon, I was like a tourist in "Straßburger neue Stadt" :
Using such a sawing top material, complete cut of upper right side battery will be the easier simplified formality :
End of cut, piercing, adding some small details and installation are to do as next step :
Beginning on the the last upper right side battery, with three brass gun-assembled on their wooden carriages :
Upper batterie's built done, except... ninety-two carriage-wheels : what a pleasure ! I rejoice about this nice job :
Preparing following work about gun-carriages by piercing and sawing wooden wheels of twenty-eight pieces :
Overview of the carriage with wheels cut, and a picture of the obtained result on the fore part of my upper deck :
The upper battery is now finished, I continue this shipyard with the quarterdeck (deck-clamps and deck-beams) :
First quarter-deck beams, with the future stairs-landings :
All deck's beams done, ready to receive the same planking and gratings as the visible main-desk :
Today work about quarter-deck, there is no too much free place, it's quite complicated to do :
Today work :
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Some small progresses about the quarter-deck planking, with beginning the guard-rail, used as planking stop :
