Fixing the shrouds error of plan about the main mast, nothing can appear of the ancient piercing of top border :
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
Summary presentation of the balance of the ropes to be installed when will be completed the error's correction
Blue is done, red shows shrouds to do, and green, the great stays of masts
Yellow accessorie object seems to me uncertain, quite false (it comes out a plan of Aurora, by Lemineur (?)
Blue is done, red shows shrouds to do, and green, the great stays of masts
Yellow accessorie object seems to me uncertain, quite false (it comes out a plan of Aurora, by Lemineur (?)
The masts are ready, but not glued, waiting next step, have an Happy Christmas ! 
I made a summary verification of the general proportions of rigging by plan compared with a pic of my model :
Merry Christmas to all my friends modelers, I wish us a peaceful day 
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Thank you. I hope you are having a very merry Christmas.
The editor's errors about shrouds are now fixed, after a very laborious job, but any "erratum" is previewed...
The middle upper fore mast's stay test, it will be installed tomorrow, before ending this "annus horribilis" 2023 :
Preparing the middle stay of fore-mast (everybody knows that half of such a job lives into preliminaries 
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2023 comes at the end, and I've prepared my little firework, waiting a mervellous year 2024, without world war :
Happy New Year, Cri-Cri!
First pic session for 2024, with a thiny sunlight, I hope it longer, and overall peacefull for all, modellers included :
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Red colored, the plan 45 of the monograph, I prefer mine, which seems more logic than the Lemineur's draw ;
Following the middle stays :
Actual preview about an attempted general look of the vessel's after the stays rigging (except the ratlings 
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My evening pics, the winter light and curious warm colors :
Cri Cri, wonderful work! Nicely done! Magic Mike
Evening pics, with the first top mast deadeyes, and a very enlarged view of the great mast's head rigging :
