I just noticed that Björn Landström also drew the Saint Albans with reconstructed rigging in his 1961 work "The Ship". So it's possible to build the model with a good guess of the rigging.
There is always something to discover in this book.
In the meantime I kept working on the stern and the quartergalleries. The corner figures have been added.
It took three attempts before the lower figures were well proportioned. Unfortunately, I didn't have any detailed photos and the plans aren't very informative concerning the quartergalleries.
Even though there are already a lot of figures, there is a lot missing. The upper final figures of the quartergalleries and also the taffrail are decorated with acanthus carvings from the inside in the upper perforated part. I won't do that until later.
Hi Alexander
Pretty work, only the angel head with the wings below the quarter gallery is a little bit to low.
There is no place between the quarter gallery normal. Take a look of your photographs of the
original model, you posted on page 1.
Actually, I wanted to construct the lateral bow timbers first, but I saw that it didn't work. I blame the plans (especially the detailed plan of the "Beakhead Bulkhead" doesn't seem consistent to me).
So I tried the headrail of the galion first. With the photo editing program, the side view was stretched in the correct proportion and then the headrail was carved in two parts each.