Amazing work you have the patience of a saint sir.

Well I finally finished fitting and rigging all the cannons.... .. A long tedious job and although enjoyable at time I must say I am pleased to be moving onto doing something differnt.... Am pleased with how the cannons all turned out and feel the effort was all worthwhile... . Tomorrow onto some deck fitting so till then happy building all.....

Regards

Alan

Lovely work Alan, those cannons really do look like they were fiddly

Thanks Andy, appreciate you looking in and commenting as always...

Regards

Alan

Thank you for those very nice comments Hendrik, very much appreciated.... .. Am so pleased you are referring to my diary and hope you find it useful in helping you along with your own build.... .. Thanks again...

Regards

Alan

Thanks Hans, appreciate the kind words and you taking time to look in....

Regards

Alan

Hi everyone, tonight was a pleasure to be working on something different.... This started with constructing the stairway railings. Although the template is used to make these up it is likely some minor adjustments will be needed when fitting, mainly due to each build being slightly different.... . A delicate task but it all worked out in the end...

Moved on to making up railings to go around the hatch on the quarterdeck... didn't want my little sailors stepping backwards and falling down the hatch.... .. This is not something the instructions say to add but something I felt was needed....

Finally tonight, cut 3 6x22mm sapele strips to make up the doorway on the maindeck bulkhead. Drew a line down the centre to give the impression of two doors... .. Added the four hinges and noticed the instructions say nothing about fitting door handles.. a door without handles is like a ladder without rungs .... created the handles from two tiny etch eyelets.... .. Finally I felt the doorway was still missing something so decided to frame the door using some spare 1x1mm strip painted gold.... Gave the door a coat of silk varnish to finish off..... .. Am happy with the progress tonight so tomorrow it's adding the railings around the forward hatch and then perhaps moving onto dressing the bowsprit.... .. Then again may just add a few of my own personal touches and do a little touching up here and there.... Happy build all

Regards

Alan

Thanks once again for you kind comments Stevie... .. Think the cannons in question would have caused a lot of damage to decks and fittings, including masts if fired using traditional cannon balls and would also imagine they would create many fatalities or at least serious injuries to both enemy and crew fighting on any of the decks.... .. It may also be possible they would have fired these in an attempt to scuttle the ship rather than see it fall into enemy hands when defeat looked certain... Robin also pointed out that perhaps they may have fired other materials such as rocksalt, would still have made a heck of a mess.... Drastic measures to defend the ship I feel and would think they would have been used as a last resort..... .. Will see if I can get definitive answers to this in some of the reading material I have..... .. Thanks again Stevie....

Regards

Alan

Hi Alan,

Detail coming on great and the quality up to the usual A1 standard.

Keep it coming.

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Looking at the deck bulkheads I decided it needed just a little more in the way of definition.... Returned to my trusty cocktail sticks, cut to length and gave them a couple of coats of gold paint... .. Glued into position acting as round support posts... Please with how it turned out.... .. Finished off with adding the rails to the forward hatch.... Work now starts on the bowsprit tomorrow.... Happy building all..

Regards

Alan