I printed the modified files, 7 straw hats, and the sponger. I made the hat brims too thin, and they didn't print well, so I made brims from paper, painted them with resin from the printer ; and hardened the resin with UV light. This batch of 15 is mostly painted, but still needs some details and touch-up.
This will make 32 crew, and I have to make guys climbing the rig, laying out on the yards, sitting around, plus some officers and Marines. I'm guessing it's going to wind up being 50 or more figure in total.

I'm sure the davits had some sort of brace, most likely bolted to the hammock irons that make up the bulwarks, so I mocked something up with chipboard and the last poorly printed davits to get measurements with. I updated the 3D model with that as well as finishing the double block at the top. I replaced the ball at the tip with a ring as it appear there was a chain linking the davits together.

The slicer said it would take 3 hours and 50 minutes to print a pair, but checking the printer 2 hours in, I found it wasn't doing anything. I reset and restarted it and 4 hours later had a pair of davits.

I temporarily CAed them to the channels to see how they looked, and hung a boat from them. I think they'll serve just fine, they look right, at least. I'll drill holes in the bottoms so pins can attach them to the channels better.

Painting and clear-coating is done on the crew that's made so far, so I started looking at making gratings for the head.

I made chipboard patterns, scanned them, and used that image as a guide to 3D modeling them. They took 4 hours to print and need some adjustment, but I need to install cleats (ledges) for them to sit on to accurately see how much adjustment is needed.

Clamps, ledgers, cleats, whatever, got installed in the head for the grating to sit on, and it all got painted. I made new templates and from them 3D models of (hopefully) better fitting gratings. Being thin and perforated, they wanted to curl, so I glued wood stiffeners to the underside, and they got primer and paint.

I installed skid rails on the sides when I could see them in the 1856 portrait the model's based on. These were cut to shape, glued, and pinned to the hull. Some primer and paint went on here too.

It's almost time to mask and properly paint the hull nice and neat.

Painted the printed grating a more oakish color, but not really matching the wood gratings I made. then I had to chop off some of the head gratings to bet the bowsprit by. Not really happy with any of that, but fixing it will have to wait as I'm gonna be traveling away from home for a bit.
I started painting the hammocks on the portside.
Then I found they had scanned the head ornaments on Constellation, and using screen shot of their models I got 3D files. There's a LOT of work to be done before I can print them, but I'll have 3D printed head carving for the model at last.