Project questions

Ok. I am starting to think about "The BIG sugar project".    I want to build a sugar ship with working cannons. 

"Make the likeness of a Ship in Paste-board, with Flags and Streamers, the Guns belonging to it of Kickses, bind them about with packthread, and cover them with close paste proportionable to the fashion of a Cannon with Carriages, lay them in places convenient as you see them in Ships of war, with such holes and trains of powder that they may all take Fire;"
( English galleons anyone? )