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

WojtasS said:
Hello Paul
Enjoy your Holiday. Unfortunetly little too far to meet you. Maybe next time you plan to spend it in Poland ?
Have a nice rest and relax.
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Thanks Wojtas! We will fly to the US passing through Warsaw but I don’t think that qualifies as a visit. Perhaps another year!

Greetings from Prague:

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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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Hi Paul
Have a good time in Europe
 
Gentlemen, my humble thanks for the birthday wishes - another mad dash around the sun is certainly worth celebrating. We did that today at a lovely German restaurant in Nuremberg away from the tourists. My German was only slightly better than our waitress’ English but we still managed to enjoy a few pilsners and a delicious dinner.

That our holiday overlaps my birthday is a coincidence. The trip was motivated by our 40th anniversary - more a celebration of my wife’s tolerance than a mutual accomplishment - but still something increasingly rare in our day and time. I’ve made worse choices than asking this particular young woman to marry me a long time ago…
 
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