paints brigs for the British fleet.
Apologies to all those eventually interested in our announced range of 1:600 scale sailing ships for the silence we've been keeping on the matter lately. We've had to re-design thoroughly some features of the model – nearly from the start. However, we can now consider its hull as completed – except for one side feature, I'm going to explain below. But let's take a glance on the galleon's hull first.
As you can see, the ship model features two apparently odd features. First of all, we have decided to design two alternative bows as separate parts, so as to help give to the ultimate ship an earlier or later appearance. Following that same customizing friendly core idea, we have also devised two alternative sterns – a more archaic one with long open balconies, and another one more baroque-styled, with windowed galleries.
Now, we are about to start mast design; most probably, we're going to draw two versions of each mast – one with fully unfolded sails, the other one with partially folded rigging. So many variants and alternative parts are not intended for one single kit, naturally (it would be a real waste to produce a model with only one hull and a pair of every other part there!). Otherwise, the idea is to be able to make two different model kits (let's say, an "Early Galleon" and a "Late Galleon"), with interchangeable parts, so as to allow the building of hybrid models, or allowing to customize an entire fleet of all slightly different ships, just from two different kits.
I am aware that so many changes are slowing down the project, and I apologize to those among you with less patience. However, I honestly believe all these turn-arounds are for the best.
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