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Here, some of the "deck furniture", built in styrene, as yet unpainted.
   
an overhead shot of the general layout of Surprise's Spar Deck
   
and a starboard side shot of the model as it currently exists. The hull length of two gun ports was removed to shorten the hull to the proportions of the movie's HMS Surprise.
   

A finished project, long now, the property of my ex wife, the 40' Cutter "Sihaya".
This was pure joy from the beginning, as it was scratch built in 1/64th scale, Plank-on-Frame, from lines I laid down in my first attempt at "designing" a ship.
   
In this shot you can see the removed hull plank, and some of the 28 doublesawn frames.
   
The boat, hanging astern on the davits, is a 17' Whitehall skiff ( 1/64th scale ) also built Plank-on-Frame
   
and this, the profile of the skiff, this skiff is 3.2 inches long, just to give you some idea of the proportions of the model.