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La Niña by CRI-CRI - FINISHED - scale 1/48 - ship of Cristoforo Colombo - 1492


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Incredible work, Cri-Cri.   The attention to the details is incredible.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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On 1/15/2020 at 1:23 AM, CRI-CRI said:

Allegro con brio, molto espressivo...  😋

 

Belissimo, prestissimo!

 

Those blocks are beautifully and precisely done. My hat off to you sir!

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The black thread does give quite a bit more contrast and better definition of the pieces.  I like it personally.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Interesting problem. The general principle is that in the Mediterranean they fixed the lower ends of the shrouds with pairs of blocks, while in the Atlantic they used deadeyes (caps de mouton). Columbus set forth from Palos de la Frontera, on the southern coast of Spain, on the Atlantic side of the Straits of Gibraltar.

 

So perhaps his ships were fitted with caps de mouton, as was this Spanish carrack of 1475, from an altarpiece depicting the battle of Zumaia, off Gibraltar. Note that these are fixed on the outer side of the hull.

 

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Thanks Louie-da-fly

 

The latin rigging was replaced (Canarias, September 1492) for using squared  sails, like Pinta ship, latin sails were too dangerous for Atlantic

 

Javier Pastor could have mistaken with other ships of mediterranean area, like other false details noticed into its plan, which I had to correct

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