It looks great so far! It is almost impossible to believe that this is a scratch-built ship.
Bill
Bill
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Imposing!
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I'm trying to master works from St Seans and Paradisi, studying time!
I'm on the bowsprits of the studding-sails, with their famous iron-eights ;
First bowsprit of studding-sail (It would be completed later by a blocking binding inside, like the gammoning) :
As yard-end violins were nowhere to be found, I started making them using well known method do iy yourself :
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Work in progress :
Actual step of work (provisory setting of lifts) :
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Today work :
After walnut coloration :
Today work about shoe-blocks and single-blocks of main yard :
Following works :
Simplification : I am thinking to the possibility of constructing a closed hull model, without the details of the internal frame, to keep a reasonable construction time (I shall become 77 years old next april...)
I also saw with the USS Confederacy, that most laborious details disapear when too numerous or hidden into the structure, often, only macro photography can visualise such thiny things
If I were young, as sixty years old, it could have been different....
Regards,
Christian
Hallo Christian,
77 Jahre ist doch kein Alter, da sind locker noch gut 20 Jahre drin.
Grüsse
Karl
I'm April 1944 geboren, ibin ich Artziger
An updated selfie 
Alte Hase! 
Alte Hasel ist blesser als alte Schneck.
A real retirement home...
