A well-presented and finely-detailed Navy Board-style 1:48 scale semi-planked unrigged model of the 28-gun Frigate Solebay of 1694 modelled from his own researches at the Central Naval Museum, St. Petersburg by N.P. Maigeldinov after the orginal built by William Snelgrove of Deptford, using pear, padouk and ebony woods with deck details including launching masts with hand-painted silk flags as appropriate, detailed cast bronze Admiralty-pattern lion figurehead, head, rails, heads, Knight posts, catheads, belaying and main rail, companionways, capstan, bronze gun cast with Royal Arms in stepped wooden carriages and other details. The hull with semi planked deck is unplanked below the ebony main wale, chain plates and deadeyes, hinged red-painted gun port lids, correctly constructed rudder hand cast and worked bronze stern and quarter gallery decoration, wreathed poop deck gun ports and ships decorations, is finished in natural wood and wax and mounted on a pair of cast dolphin set wooden stands on sliding display base within jatoba wood bound glazed case. Model measurements (excluding masts) -- 9½ x 34½in. (24 x 87.5cm.); Overall measurements -- 22¼ x 41¼ x 14¼in. (56.5 x 105 x 36cm.) See illustration
A well-presented and finely-detailed Navy Board-style 1:48 scale semi-planked unrigged model of the 28-gun Frigate Solebay of 1694 modelled from his own researches at the Central Naval Museum, St. Petersburg by N.P. Maigeldinov after the orginal built by William Snelgrove of Deptford, using pear, padouk and ebony woods with deck details including launching masts with hand-painted silk flags as appropriate, detailed cast bronze Admiralty-pattern lion figurehead, head, rails, heads, Knight posts, catheads, belaying and main rail, companionways, capstan, bronze gun cast with Royal Arms in stepped wooden carriages and other details. The hull with semi planked deck is unplanked below the ebony main wale, chain plates and deadeyes, hinged red-painted gun port lids, correctly constructed rudder hand cast and worked bronze stern and quarter gallery decoration, wreathed poop deck gun ports and ships decorations, is finished in natural wood and wax and mounted on a pair of cast dolphin set wooden stands on sliding display base within jatoba wood bound glazed case. Model measurements (excluding masts) -- 9½ x 34½in. (24 x 87.5cm.); Overall measurements -- 22¼ x 41¼ x 14¼in. (56.5 x 105 x 36cm.) See illustration
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