Complete bowsprit, not glued (it will be exactly the same disposition to built about the upper mizain mast) :
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French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
Next step of the rigging (the shrouds red colored) :
Some pics of a laborious work about the middle shrouds of bowsprit(sone) and mizain mast (only half done) :
Shrouds of bowsprit and mizain done :
The total height of the main mast is 82 cm over floating line, in real size 1/1, it's sixty meters :
Evening (bad) picture with an artificial enlightenment of the upper parts of main masts (not glued) :
Today work : first pair of middle shrouds
of the fore-mast (my officer is... english) :
of the fore-mast (my officer is... english) :
What I'm waiting for (happy like Droopy) :
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And adding that scale figure really imparts the vast size of this ship.
Today work about rigging middle fore mast (chi va piano va sano, qui va sano va lontano...) :
Shrouds of the middle two fore masts :
Hello dear followers !
Here, the bowsprit rigging revision with a new flag mast-cap (not glued) :
Here, the bowsprit rigging revision with a new flag mast-cap (not glued) :
Evening winter outdoor pictures (there was any sufficient day light to try making something acceptable indoor) :
Tomorrow, all the shrouds of middle masts will be done, and following with parts 6, 2, 4 & 5 (green colored) :
All middle shrouds done, but without sun light, my pictures always look like a winter poor colored landscape :
Fast preview of the next step of this ship-yard, with the third level of the two main-masts (not glued at time) :
A beautiful morning sunrise, also, I send you two better pics than those taken at dark yesterday afternoon :
There was an error into top's plan :
Here, the fore mast's fixing, it was a difficult correction,
and the same will be done about the main mast's top :
Here, the fore mast's fixing, it was a difficult correction,
and the same will be done about the main mast's top :
Topgallant crosstrees verification (en français : j'ai appris à me méfier des plans fournis avec la monographie 
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