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Hello everyone,
My name is Peter and I live in the Netherlands. As a fresh retiree, it was finally time to start a new hobby, and building a wooden model ship seemed like a lot of fun.
After some searching, I came across the OcCre Santísima Trinidad (ST) and thought it would make a great birthday present. I still have to wait a little while, though, as my birthday isn't until late May.
This will be my first project, and luckily I have plenty of time to do some research. That’s how I discovered that the kit of the ST is available from both OcCre and Artesanía Latina.
Personally, I prefer the colors of the Artesanía kit, but I wasn't sure what the original colors were. At page 26 of Volume V of The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to the present by Sir William Laird Clowes, he quotes the Neptune’s Captain William Stanhope Lovell as saying of the Spanish ships: “some of them were painted like ourselves – with double yellow sides; some with a single red or yellow streak; others all black; and the noble Santisima Trinidad, with four distinct lines of red, with a white ribbon between them….”
So, my intention is to follow the colors from Artesanía. Besides the color scheme, I think I will also make some modifications during the build.
Unfortunately, I have to wait a bit longer before I can actually get started, but as soon as I begin, I will start a build log to share my progress.
That's it for now, and I will be back later!
My name is Peter and I live in the Netherlands. As a fresh retiree, it was finally time to start a new hobby, and building a wooden model ship seemed like a lot of fun.
After some searching, I came across the OcCre Santísima Trinidad (ST) and thought it would make a great birthday present. I still have to wait a little while, though, as my birthday isn't until late May.
This will be my first project, and luckily I have plenty of time to do some research. That’s how I discovered that the kit of the ST is available from both OcCre and Artesanía Latina.
Personally, I prefer the colors of the Artesanía kit, but I wasn't sure what the original colors were. At page 26 of Volume V of The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to the present by Sir William Laird Clowes, he quotes the Neptune’s Captain William Stanhope Lovell as saying of the Spanish ships: “some of them were painted like ourselves – with double yellow sides; some with a single red or yellow streak; others all black; and the noble Santisima Trinidad, with four distinct lines of red, with a white ribbon between them….”
So, my intention is to follow the colors from Artesanía. Besides the color scheme, I think I will also make some modifications during the build.
Unfortunately, I have to wait a bit longer before I can actually get started, but as soon as I begin, I will start a build log to share my progress.
That's it for now, and I will be back later!
