Thanks friends for your reply.
birder: I know, Glen, sometimes itīs hard to find properly infos about ships, and in this case I can take some infos just from the engraving from Le Hydrographie, where is surely french ships from the first half of 17 th century - flags from the ship and decorations belongs to Louis XIII, or paints of french/ dutch ships of this age ( there were five ships built before the La Couronne by dutch for french ) and - mainly - from Vasa, which one was bult by dutch also and is only survived ship from this age ( if you compare different pics and engravings of french ships built by dutch, dutch ships and Vasa, you will find a lot of common elements there - so itīs the key Iīm using - and I think the only suitable.
Rdk: thanks for the link, I know this one already, but, unfortunately, there are a lot of mistakes on this page, for example the hull lines of the Prince 1610 shows this ship after the rebuilding in later age - not in 1610, like is mentioned there. Comparison of the La Couronne and Sovereign is wrong - La Couronne were in service only for few years, an Sovereign almost till the end of the 17th century - and the depiction of the Sovereign is after her rebuild in the middle of the century based on the model in the NMM.
Comparison is absolutely inappropriate. Sorry.
Sterns which I shoveds are from two kits - the left one is Corel, the right one is Mantuaīs design. Mantua made Kit based on themodel of the ship lost in 1943, which is showed on wikiīs page ( the model of Japan modeller is made from this kit also ). What was the source for the Corel kit - I donīt know. These pictures showed also some modifications on the ship made by modellers. But the problem Iīm solving now is the bottom part of the side galleries - producers mad e probably modificatio because of gunports - and this modification is unsuitable and probably wrong - you canīt get together different parts of side gallery - top from the cca 1630 and bottom from cca 1680, as is made on these kits.
I asked several friends about this ship, two of them are mariners and experts of shipwright, they couldnīt tell me any exact infos about this ship - because they simply donīt exist, but remind me that both of kits have a lot of mistakes and are called by french historicians and experts as " Disneyīs ship "
. They recommend me the way of research I mentioned before and Iīm doing now
. This is the reason Iīm doing some improvement on the ship
Thank you for these ideas anyway
. If you īll find some new, let me know, maybe we will find something interesting.
Jan