16th-Century Spanish galleon by Apxeos - 1:60 - from 3D project to ship model

[Apxeos]

The term carrack is too fuzzy. It can be a vessel with transom and semicircular stern. A single-masted vessel may also be designated as a carrack.

 

[Louie da fly]

You're making very good progress with the build; the ship is already looking very attractive, and I'm sure it will look even better when it's finished

 

You're quite right about the words galleon and carrack. People were fairly careless about names at the time and those two terms are what we call them today, not necessarily what they were called. The current understanding of a carrack is a two or three-masted vessel with a round stern as in your second picture above, but certainly the Mary Rose, although she had a flat stern, was in all other respects a carrack, as is the ship in your first photo, which is the earliest flat-sterned carrack I know of.

 

Steven

[Apxeos]

Glued the inner sheathing of the lower deck and deck boards.

[Apxeos]

Set knees and water-way.

 

[Apxeos]

Put the stern-post  and rough sheathing of the transom.

[Apxeos]

The hole of the scupper.

[Apxeos]

Hatches and grating.

[Apxeos]

Anchor bitt and knees in the bow of the lower deck.

[Apxeos]

Lower deck assembly.

[Apxeos]

I will continue.
Set capstan, pumps, gun carriage, beams and beam bracket supporting them.
At this stage, the main task is to verify the collectability of the model body and the correctness of the solutions in principle.
Therefore, I do not plan to finish small parts on the lower deck now, I will not paint the internal volumes of the hull, etc.

[Apxeos]

I glued the rough sheathing of the upper deck and the bow deck.

 

[Apxeos]

Overhanging counter will have to be redone. assembly is not as fast as we would like.

 

[Apxeos]

 Installed the upper deck and deck flooring, put additional top timber (upper futtock) and sheathing of the aft superstructure.

 

[Apxeos]

Set the stern bulkhead and glued the two upper decks aft.

[Apxeos]

Set the second side, glued everything to the main deck.
Deck sheathing and waterways on a poop deck.

[Apxeos]

I glue the deck and deck sheathing on the quarterdeck.

[Apxeos]

Edited November 24, 2019 by Apxeos

[Apxeos]

Until I glued the partitions, you can see "what's inside." View of the stern.

[Apxeos]

Quarterdeck.

[Apxeos]

The forecastle of the ship.

[Apxeos]

All service comes from the upper deck of the forecastle extended further into the bow.
Thus, the nose can be pulled up high enough.

 

[Apxeos]

Atavisms of such a decision can be seen at the beginning of the 17th century.

[Apxeos]

Well, the hull as a whole.

 

[Apxeos]

I tried on the mast.

[Apxeos]

Found a team for his ship.
Scale 1/60.
Not good quality.
Purchased at the Swedish Vasa Museum.

 

[Louie da fly]

I see in your post of November 25 (see photo below) that the upper frames have tenons that fit into slots in the upper planking. Is this based on contemporary representations, or did you do it to add to the strength of the upper part of the hull?

 

I'm enjoying the build very much, by the way. A beautiful piece of work.

 

Also, I'm very glad to see a galleon model with this particular shape of beakhead, which I've never seen in any other model galleon even though there are plenty of contemporary pictures of them.

 

Steven

Edited December 8, 2019 by Louie da fly

[Ab Hoving]

A great thread. Extremely well done, both in research and in build.

I tip my hat for you sir!

[Baker]

Beautiful model

Very educational build 

[Apxeos]

Hi Steven!
The tenons have only technological value, they allow you to increase the structural strength and correctly position the part.
I try to combine the pleasant and the useful, so from the very beginning I developed a model with the prospect of its release as a KIT ship model.
This imposes certain limitations in the design.

I also have to use only a small number of standard materials (mainly plywood and veneer), which are commercially available for KITS.

On the other hand, this allows me to use simple tools for assembly, accessible to any amateur.

 

Ron

Edited December 12, 2019 by Apxeos

[Apxeos]

Thanks Ab!
I am doubly grateful, because I am your old fan!
I am still impressed by your article "Dutch architectural drawings of the 17th century. Original or fake?" 

 

Ron

Edited December 12, 2019 by Apxeos