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Spanish Galleon 1607 , LEE(IMAI) 1:100 May 2021 [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Good day dear community, There is next part of building report devoted to making anchors and boarding grapnel
I slightly changed form of kit's anchor ,and I hope made it's form more suitable for "galleon era"
like this for example
I slightly changed form of kit's anchor ,and I hope made it's form more suitable for "galleon era"
like this for example
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Good day everybody ,
I continue with anchors and their gears and accesories ,
as references and sources of information I used a few famous books(I think all well known for you) and some contemporaneous artistic paintings of that period , some scans from these books will be posted here as additional material
there were a few types of different shapes of anchors bouys in use in that time /16-17th centuries as we could see on the paintings and archeological founds and reconstructions ( Mary Rose anatomia book for example and others...)
John Harland" Seamanship in the age of sail"
SOS 1637 by John McKay
Mary Rose anatomy
Seetonnen or Cask Buoy from Europe ca 1425
I continue with anchors and their gears and accesories ,
as references and sources of information I used a few famous books(I think all well known for you) and some contemporaneous artistic paintings of that period , some scans from these books will be posted here as additional material
there were a few types of different shapes of anchors bouys in use in that time /16-17th centuries as we could see on the paintings and archeological founds and reconstructions ( Mary Rose anatomia book for example and others...)
John Harland" Seamanship in the age of sail"
SOS 1637 by John McKay
Mary Rose anatomy
Seetonnen or Cask Buoy from Europe ca 1425
s...... barely coped with the bandage of the barrel of the anchor bouy ,I try to make it from painted paper , cutted in about 0.3 mm strip, and it was max of my ability
))...the length of the anchor bouy should be 1/4 of the anchor spindle, diameter -1/8
according to information from John Harland "Seamanship in the age of sail"
And slightly changed the location of the anchor haws and ... so on
in short - basically, there were "preparation" for the "design" of the anchor device ...
and at the same time, I was busy with making and preparation of blocks for sheets and brasses of the fore and mains ...
Look - there is GUTERMANN SCALA in use for seizing ...highly recommend , it is good stuff for rope making as well
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I had changed the location and shape of the anchor hawse, I had to make an imitation of doubling, since the old anchor hawses were completely at wrong places ))
"redesigned" shape of the hinges of the cannon port covers on a new basis, made an imitation with the help of an acrylic contour "dark silver" initially there were no hinges at all ... removed the imitation of ropes for opening the covers ... will be without ropes, previous version was too rough, I did it without ring-ring bolts, and location of the ropes was wrong as well due to entire kit hull design which is just one big misunderstanding))
there is obviously lack of space between guns decks, due to such wrong design there are no places for gun lid's hoisting gears and for the deck scuppers as well
"redesigned" shape of the hinges of the cannon port covers on a new basis, made an imitation with the help of an acrylic contour "dark silver" initially there were no hinges at all ... removed the imitation of ropes for opening the covers ... will be without ropes, previous version was too rough, I did it without ring-ring bolts, and location of the ropes was wrong as well due to entire kit hull design which is just one big misunderstanding
))there is obviously lack of space between guns decks, due to such wrong design there are no places for gun lid's hoisting gears and for the deck scuppers as well
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ANCHOR HANDLING GEAR
"reissued" the rudder ... painted in the color of the underwater part, a couple of years ago there were objections that the rudder feather should also be painted, like the underwater part of the hull ... removed the "safety" chains, put the cables ... there are big doubts here , that it is necessary to show them like this ... like there should be only one cable ???
I do not mean a hoist for emergency control, but a cable that would hold the rudder and prevent it from being lost ...
I continue the design \ improvisation \ anchor device, the information from the books by John Harland "Seamanship in the age of sail" and John McKay "SOTS 1637" is taken as a basis ...
Honestly, here I'm just trying to reproduce the working diagrams that are presented in the books, for the sake of interest by and large ... but, how to say, on the scale of the model, this set, the geometry of real engineering structures does not fit well, in the form I reproduced the anchor device on the model, it really won't work but here it is, that is ... what Vincenzo Luszi "prescribed", as they say ... you can't jump above your head
"reissued" the rudder ... painted in the color of the underwater part, a couple of years ago there were objections that the rudder feather should also be painted, like the underwater part of the hull ... removed the "safety" chains, put the cables ... there are big doubts here , that it is necessary to show them like this ... like there should be only one cable ???
I do not mean a hoist for emergency control, but a cable that would hold the rudder and prevent it from being lost ...
I continue the design \ improvisation \ anchor device, the information from the books by John Harland "Seamanship in the age of sail" and John McKay "SOTS 1637" is taken as a basis ...
Honestly, here I'm just trying to reproduce the working diagrams that are presented in the books, for the sake of interest by and large ... but, how to say, on the scale of the model, this set, the geometry of real engineering structures does not fit well, in the form I reproduced the anchor device on the model, it really won't work
but here it is, that is ... what Vincenzo Luszi "prescribed", as they say ... you can't jump above your head
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)A small continuation - slightly "decorated" forward parts of the balcony, now it will be with the faces, based on the galleon images from the Vroom and others artists paintings .
I reorganized a little bit "Steering Gear", added emergency tackles ... Again, without a special historical binding, as example , we could see such devices on the William Rex, or Prince William, but I very doubt we could see such arrangements on spanis galleon of 16th. But from other side, why not?... some emergency steering gear in this form or another could exists even in that time
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Spritsail sheets
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Continue Sheets and Braces Fore and Main
continued with the installation of anchors, I started from the left side ... I put the anchors on the wire to somehow fix them in space :))) and imitate their 
weight
weight
finished with the anchors on the port side - for the sake of interest, fish davit showed an armed one, such as an anchor in the process of heaving up
... from the starboard side I will fix all the anchors on the marching ...
Attached files
... from the starboard side I will fix all the anchors on the marching ...Attached files
anchors on the marching - as a guide, I took information from J.Harland's book "Seamanship in the age of sail" and from famous paintings where details are visible Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (about 1575-1633), De Zeeslag bij Gibraltar_ 25 april 1607, Cornelis Claesz. van Wieringen - at least it is clear that the cat block has been dismantled in this case ...
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Thanks Rich for Your interest and comments!
Welcome !
There will be a few more posts till the final stage with flags and banners - condensed report of a few years assembling))
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There will be a few more posts till the final stage with flags and banners - condensed report of a few years assembling
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Great model, so many details in such a small scale.
Astonishing. Amazing. Breathtaking.
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Wish all of you all the Best!
Thanks for your attention and positive comments!
I'm very glad you found it interesting for watching...
))Wish all of you all the Best!