New Galleys and Sea Mat

Here's the first group shot of my 1/1200 scratchbuilt/homecast galleys, on a piece of dark blue cotton cloth (size 140x100cm) I got from a haberdashery. I also included an Ark Royal Indiaman for scale, and a pair of stones from Corfu Island - I'll use these as islands or barren sea rocks for my games.

From left to right, the vessels are the following:

• Standard galley with Imperial Habsburg/Spanish flags, sails up, inspired by romanticized paintings where the two sails are looking at the opposite directions for maximum wind power. This is a resin copy.
• Turkish galley of the 'Old' hull type, a bit more diminutive than the standard hull, sails furled. She's got balsa oars instead of resin ones.
• Standard galley of the Knights of Malta, there is a Maltese cross on the other side of the sail
• Venetian Galeass, as you can see she's on a larger base too. This is the master model, I made four more casts.
• French galley of the 'old' hull type, with added balsa superstructure (forecastle and oar banks), and a single mast.
• Another Turkish vessel, standard type, sails furled.

As you can see there is plenty of space for customization. Next I will do galiots, lanternas and ships with striped sails. There is also a larger (1/300ish) version in the pipeline with removable parts when damaged.

I'm not really content with the rigging, but for 1/1200 scale I will give them a pass.

In case you are interested, I also made amendments to my Block Galleys rules - you can find them under the Rules page of the blog.