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Those birds are as good as your ships. I especially like the second one: just before getting the fish out of the water.

Jan

The size an number of the gratings is based on the contemporaneous model. So, why should you change?

Gratings were used for all ships with a lower gundeck. Real warships had even gratings over the full length of the ship.Or do you mean the number of strips used for the gartings (the size of the holes. Than you should try to follow the rul that the size of the holws is slightly smaller than the with of a foot (ie around 10 cm). The museum-model has holes slightly wider than that, but not as wide as yours.

Jan

Nothing wrong with the gratings: rather like the usual standard in 17th century dutch shipbuilding.....

Jan

Quite a lot of the nao-recontructions are influenced by models like this one, the Mataro-model (on display in the maritime museum in Rotterdam), supposed to represent a spanish nao of around 1450.

(Pic from the museum website)

(own pic)

Jan

Matthew ofBristol is perhaps more in the correcttime frame, or San Salvador (diego maritime): bit later than Magelhaes, but nice ship...

Jan

You are asking for something almost impossible: in thta period ships were not built accordi g to plans, butbased on main dimensions, experience and rules of thumb. There are some (but ot many) artists impressions ofships around that period, but those drawings, however interesting, are hardly usefull to reconstruct the ships of that period.

No ships survived, and acheological evidence isvery scarce.

In other words: historically accurate plans are not available.

Your best line will be search for reconstructions ofspanish/portugese ships of that period. Quite a number of reconstructions of Columbus ships exist, there is a reconstruction of a Portugeseship (the pepper wreck) that can provide a starting point for your model, but that one is a bit too late. (1600 in stead of 1500)

Jan

From what I have seen from others on this site, eg @Old Collingwood or @RGL, it is a mix of both: some parts to be removed and replaced by PE, others remaining and sticking through the deck.

Jan

The printing is superb. (Although I am still undecided whether I like the slighlymore clunky looks of the PE more than this almost perfect plastics)

Question: what do you use for your rigging?

it looks as if you have multiple sizes.

Jan

Btw: in some of his vids, the robot shows up. Guess this black robot is also doing his ratling down

This guy is fantastic: both his modelling and his filming.

He also does wonders with plastic: 

Jan

No, just too many things at the same time.....

And as that is more or less a structural 'problem' these projects all go very, very slowly. 

All projects (card) that got some attention this summer:

only the birds got finished 'in one go'. All others are extended projects

Jan

If there is more to follow, I'll keep waiting

Jan

No, that can'tbe correct. 

The mast should have and angle somewhere between the rake of the aft mast, and the main mast.i The masts are kind of fanning out: the forward mast vertical, or slightly raking forward, the main mast vertical or slightly backward, the mizzen masts raking aft, the rake increasing from main mast to aft mast.

Jan

The rivetting of the secondary guns is somewhat too pronounced as far as I'm concerned. Less is more when it comes to these rows of rivets....

Jan

The last "official price" before Mamoli went out of business coupleof years ago was around €450,-

Jan

Clean and crisp work!

Jan

Masthoops are not very common on dutch classic ships. Mostly rope with parrels.

I don’t know hoe Billings does it, but the mastconstruction sounds rather like the original. Two wooden parts going through the deck to the keel. One iron bar sticking through these parts snd the mast. 

 

Jan

'k zou er niet te veel op rekenen

Jan

Ask @dafi or @Hubac's Historian, they are rather experienced in rebuilding plastic kits......

I think they do not use knifes but a steel needle.

Jan

Would be my advice too.

Stern is OK, so modifying that will draw attention to any imperfections.

just adjust rhe irons,a nd leave the woodwork as is.

Jan

Wow, didn’t do anything for over a year. Didn’t realize that it was that long. Must be the longest (intime) more or less running buildlog in MSW.

Anyway: did some work on the port-side gunport lids.

See you all in oktober 2021

Jan

Trying to become an another 'armchair expert' (btw did not succeed so far), I spent some time looking at pics of this ship class.

you already knew ofcourse, but these 'interbellum-designs' have beautiful lines.

I also came across some drawings showing them in the 'old fashioned' white-yellow paint scheme. That would be a nice contrast: another of this class in another scheme. Or are those drawings just fantasy? 

Jan

Interesting paintjob

Jan

Railing adds to the realism. Well done.

(and apart from a few nerds, no one will count bars)

Jan

The flag is much better in looks and feel, but I think it is the wrong side connected to the pole: as far as I know, the little cross should be on the side of the pole.

Jan