Spanish Galleon 1607 , LEE(IMAI) 1:100

kirill4 · May 1, 2016, 8:05am

Dear friends,

I’m very glad and proud to be a member of your comunity.

Recently" found" this forum with many interesting buildigs reports, thoroughly developed, rich in details and relevant historical information… in short, I like these ways how most of you are building your models, just great to be here ! [:D]

I would like to introduce my model/to share with you my attempts to assemble this kit , Spanish galleon, by LEE in stated scale of 1:100 , … I began this project longvtime ago…2009 approx,since that time it moves very slowly…mostly due to my working schedule…Im able to spend not more than a few months per year for the model…and part of this time need to be shared with others duties…so,till today,I’ve reached , the phase of grot mast assembling… guess 3 years more, and I could selebrate completion of this project…if will be able to do that [:D][:D][:D]

there are some recent fotoes,jobs which were done during my vacation this year…

Good day,

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 9:46am

next portion of pictures -preparation of assosiated blocks of parrels and parrels itself they are in very simplified version…:)… just imitation of real thing

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 9:49am

some more pictures…relevant illustration abt …how to fitt F mast halliards… I have not too much pictrs of spanish galleon,where we could clearly see details…so it will be kind of mix of dutch,english,swedish and danish metods of halliards arrangements…+info from Anderson book mostly Dutch :)))

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 9:53am

there is I did some mistake,with the places ,where attached halliard running ends…first choice was to securevthem on the aft reilings…suppose it is not correct… next vacation I planned to make some rearrangements,and shift them closer to the Fmast base…

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 9:56am

those are the last for today… with wrong attachement… will be continued in September…I hope…

I wish All the Best of all of you and good progress with yours current projects!!!

templar1099 · May 2, 2016, 9:57am

Patience of a saint. Outstanding work. Keeping an eye on this.

dafi · May 2, 2016, 10:08am

Hello Kirill,

nice to see your little marvel here too! You know how much I treasure your work and especially your profound research!

Cheers, Daniel

rdiaz · May 2, 2016, 10:15am

That is some mighty clean rigging work!

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 10:25am

Hi templar1099,

Thanks for your warm comment

I’ glad you like it! … process itself … kind of relaxing for me… if I don’t have my small ,sometimes a little bit stupid but still lovely and very friendly …friend… may be it will go a little bit faster… :)))

GMorrison · May 2, 2016, 10:33am

[:D[

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 10:46am

Hello Daniel,

Thanks,! I appreciate very much your opinion … as well as all those wonderfull stories I’ve read abt Her(your) Majesty…

:)))

Greg · May 2, 2016, 10:47am

Wow. At a loss for further words. Nice work.

And welcome. [snWcm]

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 10:49am

Thank You very much rdiaz for your comment!

Wish You all the best!

Kirill

kirill4 · May 2, 2016, 10:52am

Hello Greg ,

Thank You very much for comment and welcome !

All the best!

Kirill

fox · May 2, 2016, 4:12pm

W-O-W!!! [t$t] [t$t] [t$t]

Jim [cptn]

cerberusjf · May 2, 2016, 4:45pm

Welcome to the forum! That’s an excellent build I’m looking forward to seeing your progerss

I realy like that kit and the way you’re building it.

Best wishes,

john.

Jester75 · May 2, 2016, 8:33pm

Hello and welcome. All I can say is…damn

knox · May 2, 2016, 10:08pm

I looked at all the pictures and then had to take a couple of Advil. I can’t wrap my head around the amount of complicated work your doing. Amazing

kirill4 · May 3, 2016, 2:11am

Dear Jim, John, Eric, Knox ,

Thank you very much for your pozitive and…I must say - very “supportive” comments!

It work good…very good for me , pushing to continue this experiments …and stimulates to complete it…in near future ! :))) … hope in two years it will be done! … must be !.. otherwise I will never open the box with another kit [::DD0][:D][:D][:D]

when I purchased this kit long time ago…smth. in 2003…and began to assemble it approx in 2009, I absolutely didn’t realise how long will it take and how much information abt galleons of Spanish Armada era( that time of famous fight between Spanish and English fleet in 1588) I will obtain later on…in the begining , I just liked the picture on the box cover and scale …big enough for convinien work with model …thats all,for that time…

and only much later, when the hull was clued and almost complitely painted but I had steady internet connection all in all, huge Wave and waves a little bit less in size ,of information of galleons,their constraction,rigging,fighting equipment and so on…covered me over my head…

and I 've found that this plastic kit,as represantation of galleon ,never mind ,spanish or english or what else nation ,is absolutely wrong in hull constraction and rigging arrangements…but I can’t stop and give up my project, just began to add some details ,which I known from various sources, could be present on galleon of that time,and did some minor …how it called…scratch build?

some of them were found incorect later on as well,as soon as more reliable info came…so at the сеrtain moment ,this process seems to be endless …and I decided to stop with corrections,but to concentrate on riggging only… at least, there is Anderson book abt 16-17 rigging was found,which entire covered all my questions abt galleon rigging at the end of 16th century…additional information I found in very detailed pictures of Dutch artists of that period…foundvthem very helpfull ,in lack of info of spanish shipbuilding metods of that period represented in english language…at least I didn’ find such, in free ecces for download in internet…in the same quality as A.B.Hoving books of Dutch ship buildings of period , for example…which are also I could consider as very or even Extra ! helpfull in studing galleon period,especialy if take in consideration that Dutch in that period occupated world leading pozition in shipbuilding, and all other nations just follow them in such respect…in general ,lets say… including Spain ,which in turn, in that time as well ,had part of modern Holland , under Spanish crown authority…

here is link to my “galleon arhive + other relevant info” ,info which I collected from internet …may be it will be usable for those of our colleagues who are busy or has intention to build galleon model…

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/5w2p/46xzqWDvy

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/A3YM/fv7DZhUo4

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/FTFD/ngjpnaR6X

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/LFQ5/HqcDFRPTc

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/LZxh/bYx6bUSzP

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/29Nd/j2CkEFQMx

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/MGvt/pjuEZqdPw

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/7WDn/DpwkR8Efy

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/4gZF/kA7cKN2Kp

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9szy/HE4n1F8q1

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/6GtC/JEVesgACD

All The Best!