I built La Couronne c. 1636 in 1:100 scale. Being small there is a limit to the detail you can make on gun carriages. However, using 2mm blocks from Falkonet in Russia, I was able to rig the gun tackles and train tackle for small gun as small as 15mm. At this scale, most people only rig the breaching ropes and call it good. Train tackles are OPTIONAL. They are not used in action, only when the carriages need to be drawn rearward. The tackles are rigged with sewing thread here. They are THAT SMALL. When guns fire, they move rearward on their own. Get some good tweezers for this!
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Holes in the bulwarks for eyebolts for both breaching ropes and gun tackles using a homemade jig to locate the holes. Drill the holes from the outside surface of the hull. They will be covered by final planking later. Gun barrels were rigged with breaching ropes first.
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Make gun tackles using the tiny blocks with 1mm eyebolts stropped to each block. Attach these gun tackles to the gun carriage first, then the opposite eyebolt using tweezers to the bulwark but inserting the shanks wet with CA glued into the tiny holes in the bulwark. Make right and left hand coils of rope and glue these over the ends of the gun and trail tackle lanyards on the deck. I butted the ends of the lines to make them look continuous.
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Gun carriage ready for installation.
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Hang the barrel out the gun port while you install the gun carriage. The draw the gun barrel back into the gun port and atop the carriage and glue it down by the trunnions and onto the quoin at the rear end.
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Done!
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