Mary Rose "Your Noblest Shippe" 1545 scale 1/50

[Backer64]

The cannons
Below is an overview of the quantity, with a hypothetical distribution across the ship.
This may be correct, or it may be wrong—but the ratio between bronze and iron is accurate.

The 2 bronze half-cannons in the bow need to be replaced with iron ones.

Work in progress.

And a test for the positioning and rigging.

 

[Ricky325]

That's a fantastic model, here's mine from years ago. It's not a patch on yours. I built it as a stand off model. It's RC but I haven't sailed her for years

 

[Ricky325]

A couple more pics

 

[Backer64]

It's RC

Beautiful, it must be amazing to see a model like this sailing

 

[Ricky325]

Yes, the rather ugly keel is wood with 7 lbs of lead flashing rolled up and glued and screwed on then smoothed? With filler. I was going to replace it but never got round to it. It's rather shallow isn't it. The thing sticking out of the hull near the keel is a propeller shaft with folding prop. The round thing on the rudder is for fixing on a rudder extension. She did sail quite well but like the original not very well into the wind, also I found that with all sail set she tends to come up into the wind. The spritsail and mizzens are too big and as this was nearly 20 years ago I made the after castle too low!

 

[Backer64]

All the gun port lids have been attached and rigged. Whether done correctly or not, who knows?
And the demi-cannons have been glued in place as well.

The next step involves the cannons in the waist.
First, I need to make the hooks and eyebolts.