proves himself a fan of splintered oars, crashing beakheads, and drummers yelling "come'mon, you scurves! The Captain wants to go water skiing, so pull harder!"
Well, I admit there isn't much to show yet, because 3D designing of our announced 1:600 Galleon has been revealed to be a little harder than expected at first. However, when the designer showed me a few pictures of his work-in-progress a few days ago, I couldn't resist the temptation to share them. Ship's hull, a part of which you can see above, will measure around 70mm long. Manila galleons were really big! And perhaps around 17mm wide.
As you can see by the picture above, we're taking a lot of care about detail – even at the risk of having to reduce it later! After having 3D-printed a first prototype, we'll be able to determine parts and materials, although I'm currently considering as most likely to eventually make the hull in resin, with masts and rigging in white-metal.
Unless something goes really wrong, the ship will be released as a boxed set, including a DIN A7-format paper sheet comprising not only its main ensign, but minor flags and jack as well. Here below, you have a draft of such a flags sheet:
Cheers!
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