Now, I am no
Tony, but I think I had some success with this project. A bit of background,
a while back, I finished reading
Empires of the Sea![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tsZS1sUJCh-WgQjp_l9QkjWAANKucEl9l2QsKKBjLbCL948_BfYhftg3Vd3BnYkv6o46INwZK9U40b0r2DJ-n6J-klhpyoP7nCWXdjXB9GGqCQQNpqLE11wkdiPLNyQ3uPcA-QMYzNy61g1JP4j3HoQCybMnjut6No8tE3lfZTk6bGgZI3SUay=s0-d)
, and got inspired to look into naval gaming with galleys. Finding that the available options for galleys were rather expensive, I thought I would try my hand at scratch building a galley. Following some Internet research, I decided to base the scale on the size of a common Popsicle stick, which happens to be 1cm in width. This translated to a ship of around 8.5cm in length for an approximate scale of 1/510. This size also fits neatly on a plastic credit card, which I happen to have a ton of from gift cards and hotel room keys.
After a few afternoons and evenings of work, I had the following results:
Needs, paint, but I think it is on the right track.
I think that I can create more of these pretty quickly, which would be good, since there were over 400 ships at Lepanto...
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