tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post3909332970222230612..comments2023-12-26T04:19:36.731-08:00Comments on Gowan's 1/72scale projects and crazy ideas: WIP - The boat my friend requestedDaisy Gowan Ditchburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-32646828221691773942016-12-22T17:50:12.250-08:002016-12-22T17:50:12.250-08:00Interesting. Although I believe that the galley (o...Interesting. Although I believe that the galley (or rather ram) design I am using is more suited to the ships of the ancient world rather than the Renaissance. Although Oronegro is a fictional setting so perhaps some people saw ancient designs and thought they might still be effective.Daisy Gowan Ditchburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-35731622144830814472016-12-22T13:05:11.242-08:002016-12-22T13:05:11.242-08:00When I was a kid, my mother had a whole bunch of G...When I was a kid, my mother had a whole bunch of Girls Annual type books, full of short stories and articles. The stories didn't interest me much (one or two did, but, tou know... girls. This when I was ten, you understand). But one had a rerrific article called 'The Corsairs', and it was about the Muslim pirates of the North African coast, who preyed on Christian merchant vessels in the Mediterranean sea. A lot of the corsairs' ships were in fact galleys, chock full of men, ready to pounce on the incautious who had becalmed themselves too near their lairs and ambuscades.<br /><br />Man that was a great article - some really exciting stories of desperate, and not often successful defence. So your pirate galley could as well be from a classical as the Renaissance period.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-43471683403983241572016-12-21T15:27:52.819-08:002016-12-21T15:27:52.819-08:00Indeed that is part of the mystery/problem. It is ...Indeed that is part of the mystery/problem. It is what happens when someone asks for both a pirate ship and a galley a la 'Ben Hur'. I am sure it will look nice in the end but I doubt it will ever look right. But sometimes peculiar is good.Daisy Gowan Ditchburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-52938022148027292222016-12-20T14:27:50.391-08:002016-12-20T14:27:50.391-08:00It is not clear whether the vessel you are making ...It is not clear whether the vessel you are making is from 'Ben Hur' times, or perhaps much later - Lepanto, say. What yoyr pictures show, it could be either!<br /><br />I am very much an admirer of Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, though I haven't read all of them - not even half (1.2.4.6.8 and 9) The first on I've read #4 'The Mauritius Command' I still regard as the best, and is one of the five titles I have in my bookshelf.<br /><br />For a long time I thought that the Battle of Ile de la Passe in the Mauritius Command story was simply the Battle of Algeciras translated to an exotic setting. Turns out I was wrong. A few years ago I picked up a copy of Samuel Walters Lieutenant RN 'The Memoirs of an Officer in Nelson's Navy'. That told me there WAS a Mauritius campaign in 1809-10, and a real Ile de la Passe battle that was... I'll leave you to discover the outcome of that action.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.com