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

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I'm gob smacked

Thanks, Peter!

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Thank you kindly, Oliver.

Your work is truly impressive Doc. Clean and perfect. We can aspire to do work like this !

Hi Tony, looking forward to your return to the forum this winter.

Wow that workmanship is just supurb, stunning.

My thanks, Richie.

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

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Cheers,

Hi John (M), we weren't there with enough free time to visit any museums.
I'd like to learn what the city budget is to keep all the buildings cleaned so they look white. Must be in the millions of euros annually...

as always, wonderful on your newest piece of art !

Thank you very much, Jeff.

Magnificent work.

Thanks for the visit Richard - and my thanks.

 

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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.

That makes a lot of sense, Rob. Thanks for taking the time to share these images.

 

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I agree. The entire space (Helm-port) was filled with wooden inserts.




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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This is very helpful, Iutar. I am at work right now but when I'm home I'll take a closer look. Is that Plate 5? If memory serves, my drawing is somewhat different (?). The production model clearly shows the fillers - but how do they relate to the top of the stern post?