Good morning Paul. Your Moms “cup overflows” with great grandchildren. She looks really happy.
A gift to be treasured. Your Mom clearly loves you
. Cheers Grant
A gift to be treasured. Your Mom clearly loves you
. Cheers Grant
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Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48
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Thanks, Grant. My mom is eternally happy - though she does like to worry about thingsGood morning Paul. Your Moms “cup overflows” with great grandchildren. She looks really happy.
A gift to be treasured. Your Mom clearly loves you
. Actually, she likes to worry about everything 
. Most recently she is worried about running out of money (she has plenty - plus, I pay most of her bills). I assured her that I have a lot of camping gear she can borrow if she loses her house 
.My mom also used to paint, but not as well as your mom. She loved Bob Ross and Bill Alexander - TV show painters from back in the 70's and early 80's.
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It's NICE camping gear! And a nice warm sleeping bag for the winter.Bully
Oval windows look amazing, Paul!
Thanks for visiting, Marc! Much appreciated!
Attention now turned to the middle and upper rows of lights (windows). These were completed in the same manner as the lower row of oval windows.
First, a Castello panel was fit into the opening with rectangular window cutouts:
Next, the light divides were made with 1mm strips of Castello (notched on the mill as shown previously):
Once again, the glass is mica:
I then spent the next day or so noodling over the lower false balcony. Fortified now by information supplied by friends on this forum, I was able to replace the missing parts without tearing anything off.
Of course, that makes no sense whatsoever to anyone who isn't looking at the plans for the Saint Philippe. Perhaps it would help if I showed you the stern of the Magerotte model which was built in conjunction with the development of the monograph.
I have indicated in blue what I am calling the lower false balcony. Please notice that it is not flat; rather, several of the panels are inset:
The inset panels in place:
The 'outer' panels are more complicated. First, they are shaped on their ends where they overlap the inset panels. And to make things even more interesting you will notice that all of these panels are vertically bowed. As far as I can tell M. Magerotte made his panels flat - but the plans are clear.
Here was my solution to creating a return that fit to the curved inset panel while honoring the shaped ends:
The back side of this added bit was then painstakingly fit to the curved surface of the inset panel. Here is the result on the central outer panel:
I suspect carvings will hide much of what I have done here - but this approach does provide structural integrity to what is otherwise a somewhat flimsy structure.
The faux lower balcony now wraps around the side of the ship:
This present work has my full attention (that is: I am being suitably challenged) - and it only gets harder from here. Hopefully my understanding of the plans will grow while fabricating each element in turn (knowing through doing).
And I thank you very much for the visit!
First, a Castello panel was fit into the opening with rectangular window cutouts:
Next, the light divides were made with 1mm strips of Castello (notched on the mill as shown previously):
Once again, the glass is mica:
I then spent the next day or so noodling over the lower false balcony. Fortified now by information supplied by friends on this forum, I was able to replace the missing parts without tearing anything off.
Of course, that makes no sense whatsoever to anyone who isn't looking at the plans for the Saint Philippe. Perhaps it would help if I showed you the stern of the Magerotte model which was built in conjunction with the development of the monograph.
I have indicated in blue what I am calling the lower false balcony. Please notice that it is not flat; rather, several of the panels are inset:
The inset panels in place:
The 'outer' panels are more complicated. First, they are shaped on their ends where they overlap the inset panels. And to make things even more interesting you will notice that all of these panels are vertically bowed. As far as I can tell M. Magerotte made his panels flat - but the plans are clear.
Here was my solution to creating a return that fit to the curved inset panel while honoring the shaped ends:
The back side of this added bit was then painstakingly fit to the curved surface of the inset panel. Here is the result on the central outer panel:
I suspect carvings will hide much of what I have done here - but this approach does provide structural integrity to what is otherwise a somewhat flimsy structure.
The faux lower balcony now wraps around the side of the ship:
This present work has my full attention (that is: I am being suitably challenged) - and it only gets harder from here. Hopefully my understanding of the plans will grow while fabricating each element in turn (knowing through doing).
And I thank you very much for the visit!
Wonderful job !!! That looks fabulous !
Beautiful work Paul. Will you be doing any test carvings as you're planking the ships transom?
Your perseverance pays off. And including the curvatures of the panels and beautifully fitted together. Again an excellent job.
Hi Paul,
I understand why mr Margerotte made his panels flat. The carvings covering this shouls now also have this curvature in front and rear.
Have you considered to make it one full carving, panel and carvings on it?
I understand why mr Margerotte made his panels flat. The carvings covering this shouls now also have this curvature in front and rear.
Have you considered to make it one full carving, panel and carvings on it?
That gives a compleet different view on your model, Paul. She is coming alive!
A lot of ‘3D-puzzling’!
Regards, Peter
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Mmmm, I am very sorry to say, you can do that better Paul. The lines are not nice, not parallel, not symmetrical were they should not pleasing to the eye in my opinion. Sorrry!
Masterfully done, Paul. This area is quite complicated and I puzzled over it, myself, for quite a while; working one way, realizing mistakes and then having to correct for them. You have laid a solid foundation, here, and everything that comes above it will be well supported.
Very nice work Paul on a very difficult assembly. Ingenious the way your worked it out !
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Oh, well. I remember having to live with similar flaws in my own work. One Can always improve. Many times, I have gone back and re-done areas under such well-considered criticism at the Naval Academy workshop. I never took it personally.
Pete
Thanks, Jeff!
That's a great question, Daniel. I probably won't do any tests, but I may very well start adding some of the carvings along the way. For example, there are places that will get hard to access and if I don't do the carvings I'll have a hard time fitting them at a later stage. With that said, I am definitely not in the mood to do carvings right now. Why that matters I'm not sure
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