Something different for a change: the belfry

I was fed up with the guns for the moment. So I picked up something else: the belfry. There was something in the kit, but it really made no sense at all. So I cobbled something together myself. The Anatomy of the Ship had a nice example. Its scale was slightly too large, so I did have to convert it a bit.

First the little roof.

Then the pillars, first attempt.

All the parts together, with the pillars tidied up a little.

The end result, in bare wood. It still has to be painted black. The bell itself unfortunately had not arrived yet, so that still has to go on.

Scheepshoorn summed it up nicely on the forum: if it can’t be done the way it should, it will have to be done the way it can. That is how this feels too. It is not a copy of the drawing, but it looks enough like it, and it is certainly better than what came in the box.