La Lomellina by Louie da fly - scale 1:100 - Theoretical Reconstruction of a Genoese carrack sunk in 1516

[MikkiC]

I enjoy those pics as I do so like the great arch.

French....I never learned it. Spanish, Italian, a little Latin and I'm in. I always felt like there were way more syllables on the page than being spoken in French. 😁

[Louie da fly]

Made another frame. They don't take as long to do as I'd feared.

I've been concerned about the shapes of the frames at the bow and stern. Because the model is based on a wreck which is very far from complete I'd had to generate its lines  from the remnants and from the lines of other ships of the same general time-frame (notably the Mary Rose, God bless 'er), and then use those lines to work out the shapes of the frames, and all this the first time I'd ever tried it, there was a fair bit of uncertainty. What if I've got the shapes wrong? Do all that work making them, waste all that wood - only to find they're wrong? So I cut out their shapes from card and put them (very!) roughly in place on the keel. They seem to work, so I feel better about going ahead with them when the time comes.

Steven

Edited Saturday at 04:41 AM by Louie da fly

[Baker]

Drawing your own frames and hoping they fit is always exciting.

looks good to me

[Louie da fly]

On 1/25/2025 at 6:05 AM, MikkiC said:

I always felt like there were way more syllables on the page than being spoken in French.

I always felt that way about Italian. Look at the way "non piu andrai" from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is sung . . . sounds like 'non pyandrai' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-FKyOTvto

 

And just relax and enjoy the music. Love it.

 

Steven

[MikkiC]

Mozart is one of my favorites. I know the Marriage of Figaro well. I've played it many times.

[Louie da fly]

I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm curious. When you say you've "played it", you mean played an instrument in an orchestra for the opera?

 

Steven

Edited 13 hours ago by Louie da fly