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Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

Oops sorry Paul, very late to this party, only 21 pages in with a few hundred more to go right.;)
I will have to return to the begining to follow the progress to this point.
Have not been very engaged here myself lately as my mind has been distracted with other things so my builds have stalled, but they are always there for me when I want to carry on.
Looking forward to following along with your build which I am sure will be as amazing as your previous work.Gold Star:cool:
 
Richie said:
Oops sorry Paul, very late to this party, only 21 pages in with a few hundred more to go right.;)
I will have to return to the begining to follow the progress to this point.
Have not been very engaged here myself lately as my mind has been distracted with other things so my builds have stalled, but they are always there for me when I want to carry on.
Looking forward to following along with your build which I am sure will be as amazing as your previous work.Gold Star:cool:
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Thanks, Richie. I look forward to when you return to your build!
 
Back to the real world - but better for the memories of a wonderful trip...

Just wrapping up a few more elements on the stern facade: specifically, here you see the upper sills (headers?) for the stern gunports as well as three levels of sternlight sills. There is some question as to whether or not Mr. Lemineur has it right by showing four stern gunports - lots of votes on the French forum arguing for two...

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I can't quite figure out what to do in the region of the stern post. Surely there should be some fillers to frame an opening for the head of the rudder - but I can't find a drawing that shows this region. Once again my lack of knowledge and experience has caught up with me.

In the meantime, I've started laying out for the gunports:

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Thanks for stopping by!
 
dockattner said:
I can't quite figure out what to do in the region of the stern post. Surely there should be some fillers to frame an opening for the head of the rudder - but I can't find a drawing that shows this region. Once again my lack of knowledge and experience has caught up with me.
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Paul I only have the Bonhomme Richard drawings to compare to it, so I don't know if it helps but it has these fillers in there with a straight vertical round cutout in them.

Back view:
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Plan view of lower gun deck
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side cross section:
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plan view of the main gun deck
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And welcome back, I am glad I didn't have to go over there and drag you back to your desk like I was planning. ;)
 
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dockattner said:
Back to the real world - but better for the memories of a wonderful trip...

Just wrapping up a few more elements on the stern facade: specifically, here you see the upper sills (headers?) for the stern gunports as well as three levels of sternlight sills. There is some question as to whether or not Mr. Lemineur has it right by showing four stern gunports - lots of votes on the French forum arguing for two...

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I can't quite figure out what to do in the region of the stern post. Surely there should be some fillers to frame an opening for the head of the rudder - but I can't find a drawing that shows this region. Once again my lack of knowledge and experience has caught up with me.

In the meantime, I've started laying out for the gunports:

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Thanks for stopping by!
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Wow that workmanship is just supurb, stunning.Gold StarOkay
 
Welcome back Paul - Indeed Vienna is such a beautiful old-world historical -city -- Food not so bad either

PS: meant to ask -- did you have a chance to visit this place - link below form a member

"Heeresgeschichtliches Museum" - Military History museum in Vienna (Austria)

Here in Vienna is the so called "Heeresgeschichtliches Museum" which means something like "Military History museum". One part is also the Navy History of the austrian-hungarian Period
shipsofscale.com

Cheers,
 
dockattner said:
Hello Friends,

Over the past week I have continued to add components to the stern facade. Three more aft deck beams were installed along with six vertical stern counter timbers. I marked these elements with arrows...

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A keen eye will notice the apparent 'thinness' of the fashion timbers - especially on the starboard side. Here is a closer look:

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This thinness is an illusion of sorts. While installing the stern counter timbers (again, the six vertical pieces) it became quite clear that I had the fashion pieces either fabricated incorrectly or installed incorrectly. I can't explain how - but relative to the wing transom (the large horizontal timber at the top end of the counter timbers) as well as to the rabbet in the sternpost - the fashion pieces were either too far forward or not wide enough (when viewed from the side).

I thought about taking everything apart and trying again - but then reason took over and I decided to just laminate a thin layer of wood to the aft surface of the fashion timbers. Since it would be virtually impossible to fair the inner/upper surface of the lamination, I made it narrower than what I was laminating it to. Once the counter is planked this will all disappear.

Here is a view of the lamination from the side - I think the fashion piece now has an improved appearance (more robust):

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Here is a closer look at the upper counter:

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And now from the inside:

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I have always struggled to work on the stern of the models I have made. On the Vasa I ended up standing the ship vertically on the floor with a pillow cushioning the bow - and on the Kingfisher I sat on a small step stool with the ship above me on my worktable.

I have LOTS of work to do on the SP stern, so I made this gizmo. I think this will be a good solution...

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My wife and I are off on holiday for a bit, though I will certainly have some opportunities to check in on your respective projects.

Thanks for the visit!
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as always, wonderful on your newest piece of art !
 
rtwpsom2 said:
Paul I only have the Bonhomme Richard drawings to compare to it, so I don't know if it helps but it has these fillers in there with a straight vertical round cutout in them.
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I agree. The entire space (Helm-port) was filled with wooden inserts.

dockattner said:
I can't quite figure out what to do in the region of the stern post. Surely there should be some fillers to frame an opening for the head of the rudder - but I can't find a drawing that shows this region. Once again my lack of knowledge and experience has caught up with me.
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It's just that this drawing in the book is very poorly drawn. There really were wooden horizontal inserts. They are visible under very high magnification.


This was the case on all ships.
This is also described in Boudriot Jean. The Seventy-Four Gun Ship. Vol. 1

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