Ferrus Manus
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There's quite the story behind this one. This is a model I have walked past for years at my local hobby shop, before this event took place. I have a great uncle who lives in Reno Nevada that i rarely get to see. Well, my dad and his girlfriend went to see him yesterday, and i got to talk to him on the phone. He said he wanted me to build a ship for him to display at his house, and this is the story thereof. I was able to go to the model shop a few hours ago and pick this up. Another comment: The stated scale of the ship (1/150) is laughably inaccurate. This replica of a ~100 foot ship builds to around 19 inches. A 1/150 model of said ship would build to about 9 inches. The math computes to a scale of about 1/64, and to back that up, this is actually the same mold as the 1/64 Revell mayflower. I am impressed by the size, which i consider purely a canvas for extra detail that's impossible to put onto a smaller scale ship. As for painting, I will likely base the majority of the paintwork, especially the upper paintwork, on the box art as well as my Golden Hinde. Ready? Here we go!
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ZHL are known pirates. There is NO forgiveness or support for known pirates, whether the kit itself is pirated or not. Buy from CAF, because ZHL probably stole it from them. The US patent office isn't doing its job.
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I guess i had simply failed to understand what you had planned to do.
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That's the same reason i decided to forego the parrels on my galleon; not enough space.
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I see what you did with the sail on the first one. This time, i would recommend putting some kind of glue on the sail before it's rigged, so you don't have to fix it in place with a wire. Even better, i would remake the sail using silkspan.
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I could probably find you something on how exactly parrels are rigged, if you wanted.
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Also, you could definitely do the parrel right if you wanted. There's certainly enough space there, and you could definitely find or make a belaying setup. If you want to do the parrel as it would have been, refer to the point at which i explained parrels and square sail tacking in this log.
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Moreover, if footropes did exist, they would probably have been tarred black lines.
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I'm pretty sure the footrope hadn't been invented by that point. Can someone else verify this?
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Those blocks are HUGE!!
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WOW. How's that even possible!?
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Perhaps those were the same type of ships that bore the Sea Peoples to the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, and the rest is history.
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You're right, Roger. That's why I am doing this mostly for fun, and plus, it's useful for my scratch projects in the future.
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How would you possibly be able to construct a shell-first carvel-built ship? At least with clinker-built ships, the overlap of the planks provides a general direction for where the planks should go.
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What i find interesting is that this is probably the same type of ship that St. Paul would have traveled to Rome on. Granted, that ship would have been constructed in the first century AD.
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This is a picture of the Vasa that i have significantly edited in order to make the lower planking more visible. I don't see any drop strakes. The below-waterline planking is nearly impossible to see clearly in any photo i've seen.
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The Mataro Carrack shows no drop planks either, although the planking goes up into the lowermost wale. The one singular thing the Amati kit got right beyond the overall look of the ship.
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Mathew Baker. Can you identify any drop strakes? Grab your magnifying glass and photo editing tools. Neither the Newport Carrack nor the Contarina 1 yielded me any results. What sucks is that the outer planking for pretty much all of these ships has rotted away. It seems as though the Mary Rose has a sort of prototypical drop strake system. However, good luck finding a picture of the outside of the actual hull. This reconstruction of a Venetian medieval ship shows stealers at the stern, but no drop planks. Imagine banging your head against a brick wall because your friend wants to plank his model a certain way. Couldn't be me! Until an intact shipwreck is found, which it likely never will be, we will never know. Someone's interpretation has got to be correct.
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I have seen Amati Coca's with drop strakes, and while it looks nice, i don't think it's accurate. Maybe we should start a new debate/controversy on MSW? The bottom line is we have no evidence, so either way can count as valid. Don't you love working with practically zero evidence outside eight-hundred-year-old buried shipwrecks and inaccurate art?
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