Grating

[Swiftie]

I’m building the Mayflower,I’ve come to the grating and found out model expo is out of stock part #ms2873. Is there another place I could by the grating? Thanks

 

[rtwpsom2]

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Single Capstan Double Capstan Windlass Gratings (Flat) Gratings (Curved) Gun Carriage Mini Kit

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Gratings for Scale Model Ships

 

[Swiftie]

Thank you

 

[Roger Pellett]

The only thing known about Mayflower is her tonnage, a measurement of her internal volume. Everything else is pure reconstruction. The Mayflower replica was designed by William A. Baker, a naval architect whose hobby was researching sixteenth and early seventeenth vessels. If he were alive today, I believe that he would agree that the replica is that of a typical late sixteenth merchant ship, not necessarily Mayflower.

Knowing details like gratings covering hatches are a reach well beyond Baker’s work so why bother trying to find them? Ordinary hatch boards would be just as realistic.

Roger