Concept to Reality - Building the Hull

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Design stages
Building the hull (4 of 4)
Deck details and masts
Rigging and Sails

Building the Hull Stage 3
Completed hull, ready with some deck furniture and decorations. As you can see in the picture below, the ship has “aged” considerably compared to the picture on the previous page.

Through weathering techniques and the use of oil-paints, pastels and stains we attempt to create the illusion of a ship which has survived many storms and sailed on epic voyages.

We do not use a lot of automation techniques in the creation of classic sailing ship models since we try to avoid a machine-made look. This machine-made look is fine, and even required, on a model of a motor-yacht, but not on a 16th century galleon. A small degree of imperfection, although dangerous, has its own charm and we feel it is constructive to a more realistic model of a sailing ship.

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