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Old 08-10-2022, 06:57 AM
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Such a treat to see these, even the way you set up your photos puts everything in great perspective and lets us all see just how small the parts are.

Those boats and details would be my undoing. I am afraid I would be so caught up in having finished the major components of the work that I would rush them, yet they are what truly puts the "icing on the cake" as they would say. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Old 08-21-2022, 06:36 PM
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024 – Bossoirs

Thanks for your comments Doug.
The details are labor intensive, but it wouldn’t be the same without them.

This group of photos covers the installation of the forward davits. They are approx. 11 meters (36 feet) in height.
One of the intriguing aspects of building French Predreadnought Battleships is creating the equipment they used on each ship for launching, retrieving and storing auxiliary boats. Each ship seems to have employed a unique system for it.

Finally I installed railing on the forward superstructure.

There are several crew members visible in the vintage photo, giving some perspective to davit height.
It also nicely shows the ladders. Near the bottom of the ladders you can see the service platforms.

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Mike

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Fantastic!
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It has been a joy to follow this. Thank you
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I always enjoy the vintage images, which show how closely your work replicates the original ship.

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025 – Volant d'urgence

Thank You Ab, V-King and Don for your kind words.

Image 199 and 200 show a piece of equipment that I cannot identify with certainty. I believe they are ventilators, or perhaps exhaust fans. For now (until someone corrects me), I have referred to them as “Type 2” ventilators. So far I have located six of them on this ship. Three on the stern deck and three on the top deck. These fans can be seen easily in most of the vintage photos in my collection. However they seem to move around. So I assume their locations were determined during various refits and alterations. In vintage photo 205, two of them can be seen just above the auxiliary boats being launched by the davits.

I decided to add more details to the stern superstructure area. Based on drawings, there is an emergency steering station there. However, I have no photos showing that area clearly. In image 201, the three steering wheels shown are laser cut from card. After adding the steering station, a ladder and some railing, I captured images numbered 203 and 204 to show installation of those components.

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Those may be exhaust fans and they appear on other French warships. It’s hard to imagine what else they could be.
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Those may be exhaust fans and they appear on other French warships. It’s hard to imagine what else they could be.

Yes I agree. They are also on RF Massena. But I could not remember what Carl called them.
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Outstanding details and, as always, a much appreciated historical image.

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Outstanding details and, as always, a much appreciated historical image.

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Thanks Don. I have an ample supply of vintage images, so they should last for the remainder of this project.
Mike

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