French Battleship Jauréguiberry / 1:250

[Kugelfang]

Wonderful craftsmanship in your construction! These turn-of-the-century naval ships are fascinating subjects.

--jeff

[Joe711]

Mike, this is a very precise construction, as always ...

Regards, Joe

[Robert Woolley]

Tremendous work Mike. How are you generating the graphics? The wheelhouse looks very good indeed.

Robert

[Michael Mash]

Originally Posted by Robert Woolley

Tremendous work Mike. How are you generating the graphics? The wheelhouse looks very good indeed.

Robert

Thanks Robert. For the graphics, it is nothing very fancy. I have been using Sketchup and MS Paint. I also have Corel Paint Shop Pro to help with some finishing touches when needed.

Thanks modelers for the nice words: Shipbuild, John, Eatcrow, Jeff and Joe.

Mike

[romanmodels]

Good work on the wheelhouse and the admirals Lookout Mike.

[cerberusjf]

Great work Michael!
Someone asked about hoists going up the masts to the fighting tops. I've read about this too but could't see anything labelled as such on the French plans, only implied. They are on plans of Russian ships based on French designs or French built, oddly enough.

[Don Boose]

Belated kudos for this latest precision work, Mike. The railings are razor sharp and perfectly aligned, all the details are a treat for the eye, I enjoyed seeing the current status of the whole ship, and, as always, was glad to see the contemporary photographic image.

Don

[SalvadorDagi]

this is inspiring on so many levels. seeing what you all can accomplish make me think you've dipped your knives into a magic potion. outstanding!

[Michael Mash]

Thank You David, John, Don and Salvador.

Since the technique of making the forward Admiral’s Observation Post was still with me, I decided to make the aft Observation Post. It is almost the same, except it is located further down the mast, so it has its own slightly domed roof. The aft assembly goes into storage. It won’t be installed until much later.

Then . . . . I moved on to some forward superstructure details, beginning with the 37mm Revolving Cannon located on the Wheelhouse deck wings. There will be eight more of these located in the upper masts, but more on those later. Image 144 shows most of the parts. The two round wheel cranks on the left are a pair of laser-cut wheels left over from my Beowulf project. Based on the appearance of the parts (Image 144), I was not certain this was going to work. But after assembly, and adding a couple more details, they passed inspection. For comparison, Image 145 shows them next to a pair of 47mm cannons.

The way they appear in the historic image 148 was the appearance I was trying to replicate.
Images 149 and 150 provided close-up views to serve as a guide.

Regards,
Mike

[missileer]

Really loved the Hotchkiss cannon; amazing detail!