RE: Spanish galleon the Armada campaign in 1588 , just one more version - 22

a budget option, how to use a thread from a spool, without a cable maker machine - in the photo the thread before and after "processing" is of course not what you can do with a cable maker machine, but it is better than it was on the spool ...

* I cut off about a meter

* I clamp one end in a vise

* I pull it slightly, only so that it does not sag and holding the other end I begin to twist it in my hands along the lay ... I twist it as tightly as possible ... at least until the density of the twist looks like a normal rope

* then I pull it tightly until the "reserve" is selected, so to speak by lengthening ... it is felt, the thread first stretches and then begins to resist and if you pull further, you can break ...

* in this maximally extended state I hold it for several seconds and paint it right away - I stretch along the rag soaked in paint

* I slowly release it and hang it to dry ... as it dries, you can repeat the procedure again for fidelity ... well, something like this - the result is in the photo ...

Good day,

Dear friends,

finished with the design of the aft gallery - added arcs, as in old paintings - there these elements are present with enviable constancy.

Are they made of iron? ... maybe this is a frame for an awning, if necessary, it could be arranged?

but this is so, an assumption ... I have never come across options for their use ...

if arcs are present in old paintings, then without any awnings, as a rule ...

I don't know what else it could be?

whicy material for their manufacture? ... for wood - too thin, as they are depicted in old paintings ... let them be iron

Hello Kirill,

perhaps the arcs should provide additional support, especially in case of damage in battle. If they were used as frames for awnings, such awnings should be depicted sometimes...

I know both paintings for a long time but I never discovered the arcs .

Hello Hartmut,
Yes, I think it could be used as additional support...
No!!! :)))
I don't think so... :) in this form as an arc? how it will work as supotter? I understood if they will be just strait lines and connected to the gallery frame but not to the gallery railings...

agree ,just strange that we never see them with some kind of attached awnings...
I could suppose that gallery could be used in action as platform for rifleman... in such case this arcs could be used for attaching some kind of armclothes as protection from fallen objects... but again, they are not shown like this when we see pictures of the ships in battle... this is very strange...
I found only one picture of 16 century where we could see some kind of awnings in the after castle ?
it looks like some kind of galley's stern awnings, but again - there is no arc no arc awnings in pure form...

Then our last option is the ornamental function. But I have to admit that it does not really satisfy.

Good day,
I was pointed by Some of оur colleaque at this Vroom picture,
where attached awnings and arcs could be clearly seen fitted together...
I missed to look closely at this picture early ,damn :( :)))

wow, thats lovely

Zitat von kirill4 im Beitrag #321

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I was pointed by Some of оur colleaque at this Vroom picture,
where attached awnings and arcs could be clearly seen fitted together...

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Oh NO!!! :))) again enigma ...
Answer was so close!!! :)))

Dear friends ,
some small additions ...

*completed design of the gallery arcs- added imitation of some arc fittings ... I don't know what it should demonstrate ... securing bolts heads maybe ? :)))
but I thought with these bolts arcs will look more interestting?

*started preparation of the crosses for the masts tops - I saw them on some pictures

*made some imitation of the scuppers sleeves,

there are importatnt remarks regarding scuppers location in my model - they shown just formaly and technicaly complitely wrong , initialy there were made critical mistakes in model hull compozition which made proper scuppers positioning impossible...
but I wanted to show such devices...

Dear friends,
Thank You very much for your attention to this project and comments !:)

meanwhile a few additions - made imitation of scuppers sleeves, became a little bit too "fat" to be real appearance

Hello everyone,
slightly changed the design of the scupperhose, normaly scupperhose should be put on the scupper tube and secured, I showed only some hypothetical fasteners, not as it should be correctly but at least now it does not look as if the sleeve is simply pushed into the pipe :))) - now it is pushed in and nailed outside :))) !!!

Dear tovarischi! :)
I continue to torment the sufferer! Now it's the turn of the flags ...
so you look and I'll get to the stand! ))
By flags ... I did it based on what is in the paintings of the famous Dutch Artists...
more or less managed to get into the "theme" of flags on the foremast and main mast - comparing the images in the paintings and what I got ..
The stern |Main flag is pure fantasy, it is based on what should be on the original - see the pictures in comparison ...
How did I do:
- printed on thermal transfer paper - sold in all supermarkets selling electronics ...
- from my experience and stuffed cones) )
you need to print files saved in PNG format, then acceptable detail is preserved, and you can draw pictures yourself in the standard Windows @paint @ program by choosing the necessary options ... (save as PNG)
this is of course only for dummies like me ... the problem is how to print a tiny picture with good detail ...
but now it seems clear what to do - you draw or use the found files, and then save it in PNG format, in order to have good picture detail on the printout ...
after printouts, painted on some fragments with "gold" paint and enhanced the detailing with the help of Kuzbass varnish ... I applied gold paint in a somewhat dried out, let's say form, thus some 3D effect appeared, and then walked along the contour with diluted Kuzbass varnish ...

Good day,
Completed with Main Mast Flag