Vol. 65, No. 1 spring 2020


66 T e next project was to complete the foredeck area. T e decking covering the space forward of the fi rst


rowing bench was 4 x 0.6-millimeter veneer strip wood tinted with sunbleach stain. Next, eight 1 x 1-millimeter guide tracks for the four smaller gun carriages were glued to the deck; the main gun carriage track is part of the gun housing support structure at the forward end of the main gangway. T e carriages themselves were assembled from four laser cut pieces each and stained. T e gun housing support structure,


Gardiner, R. & J. Morrison (eds.), T e Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels since


Pre-


Classical Times. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995.


Grant, R.G., Battle at Sea – 3000 Years of Naval Warfare. New York: DK Publishing, 2008


partially constructed earlier, required


ten side supports, fabricated from 2 x 2-millimeter strip wood and then stained and glued in place. T e structure framing was completed using a variety of laser cut pieces on the top and sides. I then planked over the top of the structure with 1 x 3-millimeter strip wood and fi nished the entire structure with antique walnut stain. T e fi nal step was to install the fi ve guns on the foredeck under the housing structure. T e barrels were resin castings that required scraping away mold fl ashing and drilling out the bores before painting them metallic black. T e barrels were glued to the carriages and small brass strips were glued on top of the pins to hold the barrels to the carriages. T e fi nished guns were then glued to the foredeck. (Figure 13)


References


Beeching, Jack, T e Galleys at Lepanto. New York: Scribners, 1982.


Bicheno, Hugh, Crescent and Cross: T e Battle of Lepanto 1571. London: Cassell, 2003.


Crowley, Roger, Empires of the Sea; the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the World. New York: Random House, 2008.


Dusek Ship Kits: http://www.dusekshipkits.com


Konstam, Angus, Renaissance War Galley 1470-1590. Oxford: Osprey, 2002.


I have been involved with model building for many years, starting as a pre-teen building plastic model kits with my father. My fi rst experience with wooden ship models started when I received a USS Constitution kit for my 14th


birthday. T is was the Scientifi c kit


with a preformed solid wood hull and what I recall as a bewildering collection of small wooden, metal and plastic parts along with spools of string. T is project was quite unlike building plastic kit models but I completed the ship aſt er a couple of years of off and on eff ort.


Aſt er fi nishing undergraduate school I kept building kits, fi rst with preformed hulls and then moving to plank on bulkhead models. Aſt er completing graduate school I continued building model kits, and then moved on to scratch building with my fi rst eff ort being the 1870s sidewheeler J. M. White. I published the build of this radio-controlled model in Ships in Scale in 2006. I then went back to kits, and my build of a Greek trireme was published there in 2011. My next eff ort was La Galera Real, which took about three years to build. T is is my fi rst publication in the Nautical Research Journal.


My current build is another USS Constitution, this time using an old Mamoli kit that I got from the secondary market. I am applying copper strips to the hull bottom for the fi rst time, so I am still learning new techniques at age 64.


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