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| Castilian flagship. The sail depicts the arms of Castile |
I finally completed my galleys for the cogs project. I needed three models for Sluys. The galley participants at Sluys were Genoese, but the Castilians also supplied galleys to the French, so I made three more for them.
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| The three Genoese galleys. The Grimaldi family arms for a Genoese leader |
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| I also included the Grimaldi family arms on the aft awning. |
They weren't super difficult to build, and honestly I could have done a better job in smoothing and sanding them, but at their size it's hard to tell much of anything with them. Honestly, I just feel the need for speed building these guys. I did drill the sides of the basswood for the eight oars per side, and used steel wire for the holes. All in all not bad. A little washed out ivory paint and cover the lot with gloss gel and not so bad.
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| I wasn't quite sure what to do with Castilian awnings. I decided to embed the Castilian arms in a field of blue. |
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| A head on look at the Castilians | |
I've built the next 11 French cogs, all the large ones plus some extras. I'm hoping to have them finished by mid-week at the latest.
5 comments:
The flagships look great. I think the awnings turned out good.
I'm looking forward to seeing the French cogs.
We will make you into a full time scratch builder yet! Your cogs look great! Ready for playtesting? I always find it amazing how something so small can absorb so much of your time. However, I am sure you realize that it is a very small step from scratchbuilding cogs to creating your own custom martian airships......
Mark,
The short answer is no, I will not become a full time scratchbuilder. No scratchbuilt Martian airships or keelboats, I'll leave that to you. I'm probably a couple weeks away from a playtest, but I will for certain let you and Dave and others know.
Have you seen http://www.cogandgalleyships.com/?
Very cool David. I did check it out and bookmarked the link. I may add it to my list of useful links.
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