Ark royal 1587, 1:96

[Papercut]

Originally Posted by Michael Mash

If this is the first Ark Royal ever rendered in paper, it will set high standard.
Very beautiful ship Jan.
Mike

Heck, it sets a high standard regardless. I just wished I could do 1/2 the job @ scratch building as this artist has done.:DRick

[firdajan]

Thanx Friends

I´ve just solved my "general problem", turrets making, they´ve got their place alredy :D, so I can finish railing and continue to details making. The ship looks now a little different like normal galleon, but turrets were used for more galleons of this age ( Corona, White lion for example ), not only for Ark Royal. Is possible, that after refit in 1609 they were removed from the ship, but almost on every picture I found they were, and I have confirmed the only original picture is which wikipedia is using from Royal library and turrets are placed there,s so I putted them on my ship too. And , by the way, the´re in the shipplans I have.

As I said, I´m making model based on wooden ship plans, so almost every part of shape I have to desing myself. It looks very simple, but It takes me quite lot of time:D:D:D. I had to improve every turret to fit it exactly to its place - and it fit. At the moment they´re unfinished yet, but the rest of parts is prepared, it will continue very quickly to complete them with decoration also ( I suppose few days )
I´ll put some pictures then here.

Jan

Pictures from preparing of turrets and ship look today:

[Michael Mash]

Those ten images present some excellent views of your project Jan. Good work on those turrets. Very interesting. What were they used for?
Mike

[firdajan]

Hi Mike,

The turrets were used as toilettes normally ( as the place on galion was use), and as positiions for archers in the battle. And, of course it was a decoration elements. They were used on more ships ( for example Corona, Golden Lion etc. ) till the end of 16th century.

Jan

[firdajan]

Hi friends,

Railing is almost finished, tunning of the shipboards made, I have to finish the mirror on the aft, open railing and add some small parts on the board, include cannons ( and finish top of the turrets - I have to overworked it ). The hull will be finished this week, next week I´ll start with masts.

Jan

Ship today: :D

[B-Manic]

You show really great skill in building and painting this beautiful ship Jan. Thanks for sharing.

[Clashster]

Beautiful work!

[firdajan]

Thanx friends,

some small progress - artillery almost finished, I´m putting the cannons and the gunports covers on the places, masting process started.
At the end of weekend I´ll have better photos.

Jan

[Michael Mash]

You have some nice looking cannon barrels there Jan.
Mike

[birder]

Beautiful ship Jan! Looking forward to progress as she grows Fantastic colors and shapes compared to Naploeonic era ships!