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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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I will not use drop strakes on the Senora Fielden. I will, however, use stealers.
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I have never seen a period drawing or engraving of a ship of the time with drop strakes, and never seen an honest reconstruction with them either. It wouldn't be bad if it's painted and you can't see them. Go ahead!
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Are you sure drop strakes had been invented by that point? I heard somewhere else that they were a late 15-early 16th century invention, or later.
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Probably not. If you could somehow display it in the middle of the room (if your wife will let you) it would be possible for it to be seen from both sides.
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If the ship were engaging another ship in battle when the two vessels were side-by-side both travelling in the same direction, one side's guns would be open and firing and the other side would be closed.
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I haven't been doing much in the past week or so. This week I have had more time than usual, so I decided to work on the boat. I made all 16 rope coils and attached them to the boat last night. Then, today, I stained the bottom of the hull a clear gloss. Then comes the fun part. I painted the stand a little differently this time. It's a clear stand. On the bottom side, i painted some splotches of green, and covered that with brown. Then, on the top, i painted two shades of blue, intentionally making it not uniform, mostly so all the different colors could be seen. I quite like it.
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To stain, i use the following paints: Citadel Nuln Oil, Citadel Agrax Earthshade, and Folk Arts Antiquing Medium. The latter works marvelously well, as can be seen on my Spanish Galleon.
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