Following with some improvements about details of the rear general rails :
French war-ship Saint-Philippe 1693 - scale 1/72 - from Lemineur monograph
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Evening pics, where I am the very patient and laborious pilgrim on this heavy long road of my old Saint Philippe :
She is looking beautiful, the laborious pilgrim work sure pays off.
Other side, the external decoration of front ship is now finished :
Finition of port-lid (Canson black with a light silver paint weathering) :
General projection of the lateral view of the complete Saint Philippe, an heavy job preview for next years 
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Nice projection! Something to look forward to
Following second decorative rail :
Following second decorative rail, which goes on very slowly with a provisory Maxicraft ancient (very tired) tool :
I shall replace my broken Proxxon (after thirteen years of good use...) by the new one I ordered for next Saturday
I shall replace my broken Proxxon (after thirteen years of good use...) by the new one I ordered for next Saturday
Evening macro of rails with softy light seems represent more exactly that can an human eye perceive of them :
Only four decorative monograms to do for finish the middle rail of left bulwarks :
Ending the left middle decorative rail, before beginning exactly the same thing on other side :
The best natural evening sunlight, bright and also soft, is indeed found at the end of beautiful month of may :
...there are still three days to go before June.
Month of may (D-2) :
With upper artificial light, the carving work about the decorative lines of the bulwarks rails appears more clearly :
Here, the right side of bulwark's middle rail finished (I hope to found the guns of second battery for next step) :
Incident lightened evening pictures, showing several different points of photographic view about this model :
First wooden frame of great central stern lantern, which is not an easy detail to do successfully on this model :
