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

[Chris.]

First pair of rounded gun-ports and input on deck's rails :

 

[Chris.]

The three rounded gun-ports of the first side are finished :

 

[Chris.]

Two evening pics :

 

[Chris.]

The six upper deck's eight pounder gun-ports were installed in right place :

 

[Chris.]

Next add-on : the wales and hull's protection against anchor's abrasion :

 

[Chris.]

Wooden realization of the five parts of the hull's protection (not glued) :

 

[Chris.]

Tests of color :

 

[Chris.]

Last version of the hull's protection (I also removed its down section) :

 

[Mr.Deep]

Usually this protection is called a shkun. It was a second layer of skin, thick-flush with the barkhout.I mean, it wasn't made from a single piece of wood.You also need to dial from separate boards.

 

[Chris.]

Following the plan, I've to saw two separated vertical parts in two equal parts

The plan of monograph :



A wrong solution found on the Net :

 

[Chris.]

I found a mansonia strike 1 x 10 mm, and shall try to cut other protection parts...

 

[Chris.]

And the result :





What do you think about ?

Thanks to all my followers !

 

[Mr.Deep]

I just haven't seen such a performance on any museum model.The monograph is modern.The authors also make a lot of mistakes.You should not blindly believe them.

 

[Chris.]

I never follow blindly anybody, it's not in my temperament to react like that

I 've rectified the frames (vertical and equidistant positions) redraw all fore part of ship, and adoptef a fully horizontal keel

I noticed also that the front volute was too high, and some other details...

It seems that the base of monograh is the SR, which is a three decked 1st range vessel, and not a two decked 2nd range vessel

The real plans of the S. PHilippe are unknown, it's a reconstitution, nothing else...

 

[Mr.Deep]

Did the author of the monograph rely on something?That's why I say that I have never seen such a performance of this element of the ship's design.Did you see that?If not, why not do it as on the other models?If - you've already changed a lot of things.Moreover, the original sources of the drawings have not been preserved.

 

[Chris.]

The author says that he followed a "scientific process", and his version is therefore "difficultly contestable"

The hull protection must describe the same curved line that the anchor drop, it's not very difficult to completly imagine a functional version...

 

[Chris.]

Last simulation, verified with a 1/72 scaled anchor :

 

[Chris.]

i received a detailled answer from J-C Lemineur, following pics show a previous result :

 

[Uwek]

i received a detailled answer from J-C Lemineur, following pics show a previous result :

would be very interesting to read, what Lemineur was writing.... maybe you could copy the most important words here.....

 

[Chris.]

About this detail of buit, M. Lemineur wrote that the planking path for the anchor's blades must be figured after the provided plan