I am using my USS Confederacy experience of false POF (admiralty model) for this Saint-Philippe :
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French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
Today work on back stern with adjustment of its position :
My evening pics, just for pleasure :
Preparing cap-rail of upper back stern of ship :
Cap-rail of back stern done in walnut. It is probably right, because I can put it without glue :
Test of cap rail over the three columns, not glued :
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Following slowly the structure's built for back stern :
Sinking gammonings are fixed : I did'nt need to call a deep-sea diver to verify the notches
Sinking gammonings are fixed : I did'nt need to call a deep-sea diver to verify the notches
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Great progress, Christian. So much detailling in the woodwork. Thank you for sharing.
Some simulations about bowsprit, with modifications (bowsprit can move around several cm...) :
We have done five stern-counter timbers about seven (nothing glued...) :
And the first hatch-carling of the back stern, which regularize intervals :
And the first hatch-carling of the back stern, which regularize intervals :
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Following works on back stern timbers, six about seven done (not glued) :
Today work with cut and simulation of seventh timber of back stern :
The afternoon pics, before to morrow with all bulwarks retail :
General disassembly and adjusting frames in order to prepare the gluing of the ship's structure :
Soon, fifteen frames readjusted about twenty :
All bulkheads of frames are now at scale, I'm happy, it was an heavy work :
Today work for preparing an helm-port structure :
Today last work :
Checking the angle of inclination of the ship's back stern with a self-made wooden tool,
indeed, the whole stern of the boat has its look dependent on the accuracy of this angle :
indeed, the whole stern of the boat has its look dependent on the accuracy of this angle :
Back stern with glued spans, it is removable for last finition works :
And the last adds-on about skeleton of the ship, before ending with general gluing :
And the last adds-on about skeleton of the ship, before ending with general gluing :
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