Russian Deck Boat St.Gabriel 1728 by Dubz - Master Korabel - 1:72

[Dubz]

Yes Bering and his expeditions is a very interessting lecture. I didn't know either before. I also didn't know about the major dutch shipbuilding influence at this time. Zar Peter studied shipbuilding in the netherlands that explains why the St.Sabriel has kind Poon Hull and a typical dutch jacht rig :-).

Something I like with historical shipbuilding that the history is revealed too :-)


More progress. Mast made of pear.
















Redid the Windows (wanted to be consistent OOB ... but well the rig will be scratched again anyway ...), small stuff.








And it gets ... dirty ;-) The Russians like to work with bitumen, I wanted to try it, the deck was too light for me anyway :-P




















The kit includes all round timbers as dowels or as lasered (pear) square timbers to make them round in very good quality.

Wish to Master Korabel: Make the lasered spars and oars longer so the could turned in a lathe :-)

But I make all my scratch new from pear.





























Cheers

Dirk