The port-side pin-rails are on, and the trim-boards, inboard and outboard, installed. I still need to find, or mix, a paint color that look like canvas for the hammocks; I don't like the gray.
Now I've got to make the rest of the chainplates for the shrouds so actual rigging can start.

With the starboard bulwark pretty much done, I ground the outboard edge of the port-side hammocks trays flush and turned the boat around. I then ground the inboard side flush and installed the trim-board. Some painting was done to the hammock trays as well.
I printed a spider-band for the mizzen mast.
Painted the gratings in the boats.
Attached the boat cradles to the main hatch-cover.
Glued on the other bow pin-rail.
Did a test print of the spray-screen on the enclosed head, adjusted the 3D model and printed it again, though I may have to adjust the port-side one some more to make it work as my sloppy workmanship left it a bit asymmetrical.

Made boat cradles for the ship's boats, blocks, and new bitts. Some of the blocks are shells meant to get 8mm brass sheaves for use on moving things like the braces, etc. The others are "static" that don't move, much; for things like halyards. I couldn't find anyone with 8mm sheave in stock, so I printed some in resin. I also printed a set of smaller blocks; some will use 6mm brass sheaves, and some are static.

Next was installing the pin-rails from the prior post, but some work had to happen first;

First was dusting and cleaning them model and positioning it so I could get at where I needed to work.

The Hammocks were made as trays a little wide to accommodate any irregularities in the bulwarks, this excess needed to be grinded down flush with the inside surface. The any gaps were filled with a putty of epoxy and sawdust.

The inside surface and the hammocks all got painted, and when dry, a covering board of stained basswood was glued on to cover the seam between hammocks and bulwark. I'm not happy with the hammocks color, it should be leaning more toward tan than gray, but work on that later.

I had already drilled the pin-rails for mounting pins, those holes needed to transfer to the bulwarks. I made the 3D pin-rails based on measurements taken from the actual ship, but my "covering-board" is a little thick, so there's not much room between the belaying pins and the bulwark. I addressed this by padding the pin-rails with 1/16" basswood.

This is as far as I've gotten on the starboard side. Installing the pin-rails is next, then it's spin the hull around and do all that for the port side.

The boats got paint and clear-coat and one even got to go for a swim 😊

Work-log on my site:

http://todd.mainecav.org/model/constellation/model.html

Still working back from the stroke in June, and as I feel like I can work on the models without lopping off a finger or two, it got cold (no heat or AC in shop).
Well there's 3D work to be done, and as I want to get the rigging started there's once item on deck that has to be done first; pin-rails.
The photo shows (top-to-bottom) the 3D printed pin-rails for the bow, fore, main, and mizzen. These are shown just sitting where they'll be installed after they're drilled for mounting pins, primed, painted, and UV coated.

After having a stroke, my lady figured a month-long trip would be good therapy for me - such as walking up and down Myrtle Beach for miles!

Part of this trip was going to Savannah Georgia to finally see the Ships & Sea Maritime museum.

There they have a 1:32 scale model of the sloop of war Savannah a contemporary of Constellation, originally built as a 44 gun frigate and razeed to a 24 gun sloop of war. I found out about this model years ago during my regular scans of the Internet for information on ships contemporary to Constellation, and it's been a big influence on how I want my model to appear. Mind you their model is NOT radio-controlled, or meant to operate at all.

Relative to each other:
Constellation was launched: August 26, 1854, Displaced: 1,400 tons, 179 feet log with a beam of 41 feet, drawing 21 feet. My model is 1:36 scale.
Savannah was a Brandywine class frigate launched on May 5, 1842, converted to a sloop of war in 1857. She displaced 1726 tons, was 175 long with a 45 foot beam. I guess drew between 21 & 24 feet. The model is 1:32 scale and depicts the ship during the US Civil War about 8+ years after the point I'm depicting Constellation.

The first four pictures are of Constellation's new 3D printed pivot guns and tracks painted, the rest are of the Savannah model that I took during my visit on September 12.

Airbrushed on a couple of coats of olive on the gun carriages and slides, then went at the hardware with Testor's Flat Steel. The US Navy kept the hardware bare metal and well greased. The gun tubes too, were kept greased and shiny.
I never have much luck paint just the tiny thing that needs painting, so I paint it, and around it to get in all the nooks and crannies, then cut in the base color to neaten it all up.
Unfortunately the gun tubes are painted satin black from a spray can, and I don't have any brush-on to do the above mentioned cut-in on them. The stores don't seem to carry anything smaller than quarts now-a-days, so I had to order online.
The other guns I've printed got some paint too.

The new tracks for the pivot guns were remodeled, printed, primed, the old ones removed from the hatches, the hatches sanded and refinished. The tracks are painted, glued in place, painted some more, and clear coated. It's a matter of painting the guns then screwing them to the hatches. Details such as tackles, eyebolts in the deck, etc, will come after that.

When I made the boat howitzer, I modeled it based on an original in Fairfax Virginia with iron wheels. Looking at all the images from 1850's manuals, drawings, photos, and even artwork showing them in Japan; they nearly always have wooden wheels. I started thinking it was probably more appropriate for Constellation's boat howitzer's field carriage, in 1856, to also have wooden wheels. So I modeled a set, and printed a new field carriage, and today, got it painted, though it needs to be clear-coated yet.

BTW: The STLs for these guns and more are available on Thingiverse, for free; which is about $50 Canadian

I kid

I made a copy of the file for the tracks I had made before, and remodeled tracks for these new, shorter, guns. I also made them thinner to be more scale than the old ones.
It took more than 5 hours to print because I had to make then in halves, and stand them on edge to fit in the printer's space.
Part of the forward circle didn't print, so I set up to reprint just that, plus a few extra pieces, just in case.

I scraped off the old tracks on the model's fore and aft access hatches, sanded off the scars of the old tracks, and laid things out to check the fit. There's some more sanding to do, and then put the finish back on the deck, before gluing the tracks down after they're primed and painted. The bits of track hanging over the edge will be sawn off and glued to the deck across the hatch seam.

Doing some research about Naval Guns in the 1850's for another project led me to thinking Constellation was armed with something different than the pivot guns I armed her with.
I decided to replace my 10 inch 82cwt pivot guns with 10 inch Dahlgren guns she more-likely had.
The 3D model is based on Dahlgren's own sketch made in 1850, which matched a diagram of a Traversing Carriage and Slide printed in the 1852 "Instructions."
I printed two of these 10 inch pivots, but because their slides are shorter than the guns they're replacing, I need to make need deck tracks to go with them.

The last boat for Constellation is modeled and printed. The whale-boat will hang from davits on the stern of the ship.