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Here are a couple more WIP shots of my Heller Reale de France. Just starting the rigging.
I apologize for not thinking and shooting these shots against pine paneling, when I had finished the masts in a faux natural wood :-(
Having one problem with the rigging- the belaying pins are maybe slightly too small, and molding requires, I suppose a taper such that they taper to the ends. Hard in the more inaccessible areas to hook lines over those small, tapered pins to belay the lines. I will have to fake the pattern.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Great work on this one! She looks like she's racing along even while just sitting there. How many oarsmen would a ship like this have had? Just curious.
Pat.
very nice job
Ron
shoot&scoot Great work on this one! She looks like she's racing along even while just sitting there. How many oarsmen would a ship like this have had? Just curious. Pat.
There are 61 rowing benches, each wide enough for at least two, maybe three, oarsmen. I was surprised by different number of oars on each side. Well, I guess you have to leave something for the steersman to do- keep him on his toes :-) Maybe a 30/31 split isn't enough to make that much of a difference. The galley area on the port side takes up the area of one bench.
Don,
With the paneling background the yards seem like they are floating, those must be the new stealth masts:
Big Jake Don, With the paneling background the yards seem like they are floating, those must be the new stealth masts:
Yeah, and notice the yards are coated in black RAM. Clever, those Frenchies :-)
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