French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph [COMPLETED BUILD]

[Chris.]

Other side done :

 

[Chris.]

The rails go on, with the sunset light :

 

[Chris.]

Following works about upper rails :

 

[Chris.]

Slow, but good progress about the fore deck's rails :

 

[Chris.]

Slowly, like a snail (Schnecklig, as would say a "Maiselocker") :





Meiselocker : old nickname of the Straßburger...)

 

[Steef66]

I like your deckrails. But is it not to early in the proces to build them. Because they are so fragile. You need to build a lot of things inside the hull. An accident is happening very quick to the rails.

 

[Chris.]

The visible part of deck's build will stay between red and green lines of this picture :



Under the red reference line, there is no visible detail preview, it will be less difficult than seems...

 

[Chris.]

Divertimento, ostinato poco sostenuto con moto e molto espressivo :

 

[Jimsky]

stant simul divisum labimur

 

[Chris.]

We can also fall all together...

 

[Jimsky]

It Will be tough... thought

 

[Chris.]

Small progress on rear rails of the quarter-decks :

 

[Chris.]

All upper rails done (136 rail supports...) :

 

[Chris.]

Test of protection of hull, the plan seems too thin, these objects had
to resist and protect the wales during up and down drops of canots :

 

[empathry]

I suppose Cri-Cri that you know that a Polish member of SOS forum has already terminated all the 3D drawings sculptures of the Saint Philippe, ready for 3D printing !

 

[Chris.]

I know also another provider, but, his figurehead is itself more expensive than a 3D printer...

Your Polish member I've questioned, has not finished the entire set, he has other works to do...

Amazon buy several models of 3D printers less than 300 €...

 

[Chris.]

First prototype for protection of hull (I've to do nine others parts...) :

 

[Chris.]

The three first protections of the wales are ready, but not glued :



Further backwards, the future wales passage of the outside-ladder is visible :

 

[Chris.]

Protections of hull and outside-ladder were entirely done and glued :




Tomorrow, the same laborious process about the other side of ship, as usual...

 

[Chris.]

There are six rounded upper-deck's gun-ports (otherwise, it would be too easy )