USS Constitution Completed. Pictures.

Well, almost completed. Completed enough to take and post some pictures. I still have to make a dust proof case, install carronade breech ropes, and make rope coils.

So here a some photos. And probably without extra comment.

OK, I will break my “no comments” intention already. The rigging is black for standing, and light fawn for moving ropes/sheets. The black background (just a sheet of cardboard) looks good, but the black cables are almost invisible. The running rigging ropes likewise disappear with the fawn coloured curtains as background. Despite that, this one of my favourite shots.

There is a figure on the fighting top, for scale. Approximately. Actually at the scale the figure would be almost 7′ tall. And forget the no comments. I cannot help myself.

The ropes are to scale.

You possibly did not know that 1797 sailors wore modern overalls and helmets?

Another large fireman (1:87) pretending to steer the ship (1:93)
The copper sheathing IS to scale and IS real copper.