So, the first results of my marine epic. I already talked about how I wanted to make a model of a sailing ship and about my doubts about the Big Sailboats set. I decided to make a sailboat on my own if possible. It looks like it works.

So, the price seemed unfair to me. Both 35 hryvnias for two boards in a room (and later on, just a bunch of chopped veneer or a handful of carnations), and 600 dollars for a complete set. Nafig you need - you can buy everything at once and not wait 2 years. And if the plant produces a keel, sells it, and cuts out a frame with the proceeds, then obviously the model should be several times cheaper than the finished set. In addition, according to Russians, the set is far from the declared perfection.

Download drawings from the Internet. In Russia, the magazine has been on sale for a year now. found kind people who posted scans of the details. There are “rulers” in the frame, so it is easy to check that the detail is printed on a 1:1 scale. Printed from Autocad.

It would be possible to download some other model. But since the case is new to me, I decided to use the screenshots of magazines with detailed instructions, video instructions. And if some parts are too difficult to manufacture, you can always buy the appropriate issue.

So what can I advise:

No need to cut out the printed drawing and then trace it. It is better to transfer the contours from the drawing to plywood using carbon paper. So more precisely.

Found an old jigsaw at home. Long searched for plywood. But when I bought square meter everything went like clockwork. I do not advise cutting with an electric jigsaw (the one that you drive along the intended line). It's very inaccurate. Yes, and tears the edges of the veneer. Jigsaw, if good files, and much neater and not too long.

Accuracy within a millimeter is fine. Anyway, in the original set, the sizes walk (despite laser cutting). So you still have to bring it to mind with a file already assembled.

It is better to glue blocks. Details of each other "put" in the right place.

Collected the first part of the ship. I thought it was the stern, but it turned out to be the nose. The parts that I cut first (with an electric jigsaw from old plywood) were used. Therefore, it was not easy to reduce the level of decking on all three frames. But now I have nothing to fear!

Stain - the usual construction, oak. Clay - included in the first issue of the magazine. Very similar to liquid nails. Finished - I'll try them. The decks were pasted over with ordinary PVA (then he pressed it through the plank with a dumbbell). As clothespins and a working stand - clerical clips. True, they cannot pinch something in the depths, so special clothespins for modeling are a useful thing. I'll probably buy a couple. I also used straps with fittings (like the one that adjusts the length of the straps of a backpack) in order to pull the parts together when gluing.

I found a modeling shop that sells strips of veneer (imitating decking) and masts and slats-beams and everything. I think all these wooden lumber will cost around 100 hryvnias.

Guns in the store cost 15 UAH. Magazine will cost the same. But in the magazine they are cast from silumin (a cheap aluminum alloy). And in the store - a brass barrel and a wooden carriage. True, the galleon is already for 40 guns, so there is reason to think about self-casting. It seems that in childhood I read in the "Young Technology" the technology of making tin soldiers. Maybe I'll try.

While I bought a cutter for an engraving machine. I'm thinking of trying to make a mini-sawing machine for cutting veneer into even strips. I would like the outer skin to be made of natural oak. I have already bought a large piece of oak veneer (UAH 35 - enough for a whole fleet).

I'm starting to assemble the middle part.

We are already selecting new wallpapers for the galleon, ordered a shelf ...

Do you love sailboats as much as I do? :)

Remember, more than two years ago, the DeAgostini company published magazines from the Great Sailboats series with ship details? So, my talented and patient husband assembled one of these - the San Giovanni Batista galleon. And now this beautiful wooden model is on our shelf. And she probably dreams of the sound of waves and the creak of gear.

Galleons are not only beautiful, but also large, well-armed, exclusively sailing ships. No more oars! To budge a large one, the displacement is often more than a thousand tons, the rowers would not have enough strength for the ship.

The world owes the appearance of galleons, of course, to the Spaniards. In the XV century began the transformation of Spain into a world colonial empire. The possessions of the Iberian state began to appear in Africa, Asia, and the American continent. The need to maintain communication with new lands caused the rapid development of shipbuilding. And in the first half of the next century, for the first time, mentions of a new type appear in the chronicles. sea ​​vessels - galleons. The Spaniards needed large seaworthy transport ships capable of transporting valuable piles from the Philippine Islands and Malacca to the American colonies through Pacific Ocean, as well as the stable connection of the metropolis with the vice-kingdoms of the New World.

However, the galleon "San Giovanni Batista" was not built by the Spaniards.

The main centers for the construction of galleons were the Basque coast in the north of Spain, as well as the areas of Cadiz and Seville in the south. After Portugal was annexed to Spain in 1580, the construction of ships for the Spanish fleet was also carried out in this country, mainly in the Lisbon area. Ships were built in a number of other countries, including Italian shipyards.

The handsome San Giovanni Batista was built at the shipyards of the port of Livorno, which belonged to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in 1598.

Under Grand Duke Ferdinand (Fernando), Livorno proved to be a symbol of tolerance, providing shelter to refugees persecuted for religious and political reasons. Thus, one of the first galleon "San Giovanni Batista" built by Italian shipbuilders is perceived as the embodiment of the spirit of cosmopolitanism and entrepreneurial spirit of a rapidly growing and developing port city.

The famous galleon does not differ in appearance from the Spanish galleons of the late 16th century: two decks with cannons, a pointed bow, a bow superstructure large sizes and high feed. The possibility of its use for various purposes was envisaged: transportation of goods, research and military operations. They remained as such until the subsequent division into merchant ships for the carriage of goods along the Indian sea ​​route and warships Invincible Armada.

Quite unexpectedly, I saw in one newsstand the first issue (as it turned out - widely advertised on television!) of the next project of the Deagostini publishing house - "Great sailboats". Everyone was offered construction during (attention!) - two years a fairly reliable copy of one of the famous sailing ships - the galleon "San Giovanni Battista".

The fact that it was the first, advertising issue of this magazine that caught my eye with the very initial set of REAL details of the future model seemed to Dreamer "a kind of good omen. Although, to be honest, even the selling price recommended for the first issue, multiplied by 100, is not made impressions TOO modest ... But let's not talk about sad things!

Despite the fact that from the place of making a happy (or maybe fatal?) purchase to my house is a couple of hundred meters, this path has never seemed so long! The soul was literally bursting with the desire to open the package, look inside and, most importantly, start assembling!!! Apparently, the construction of "a certain amount" of REAL sailing yachts made itself felt, about which the visitors of the project PhotoDreamStudio can read this site. Here I will post material related to this new hobby of mine - ship modeling.

By the way, on the way home, as it turned out later, a very remarkable idea came to mind - along with the assembly of a real model of a sailboat, make its "virtual" copy - on a computer.

So, the first set of parts is unpacked, the MOST DETAILED and illustrated assembly instructions are studied and illustrated with magnificent color photographs ...

Before gluing, all the parts included in the delivery were carefully measured and scanned for subsequent modeling in the 3D Max 3D computer graphics program. I don’t know how everything will turn out in the future, but for now I intend to accurately reproduce on the computer all the details from which the model is assembled - including hull structural elements, slats for side plating, sailing rigging, etc.

Upon completion of the work envisaged by the fourth issue of the Great Sailboats magazine, the final design acquired a more or less "shown to guests" appearance - an idea began to form, if not about the appearance, then at least - the dimensions of the future ship. Connecting to 3D Max "with the famous DreamScape plugin and the first steps in texturing details also contributed to the expressiveness of the rendered image.

All these ups and downs of real and computer shipbuilding did not go unnoticed by my wards at the Children's Art School No. 2, where I teach computer graphics. The desire to model something similar in 3D has captured some, apparently, the most fragile children's minds! I had to urgently find more or less intelligible drawings of ships on the Internet (can't wait two years until all the details of "San Giovanni Battista" are purchased and scanned ?!)

As a result, several sailboats were laid on the virtual stocks at once, in particular, one of the "trinity" of Christopher Columbus - the caravel "Pinta" and the flagship of the famous corsair and navigator Francis Drake - the galleon "Golden Hind".

It should be noted that the very idea of ​​creating a three-dimensional model of a sailboat turned out to be very beneficial in methodological plan. The variety of object forms of the ship opens up wide opportunities for mastering various modeling techniques. And in combination with texturing, creating a realistic environment - water and sky, we can safely say that a sailboat is almost an ideal educational project for three-dimensional computer graphics!

At the moment, the skin has caused the greatest difficulty. In a relatively short period of time, several alternative options were tried, until the choice settled on the optimal, as it seems to me, from the point of view of a combination of labor intensity and reliability of appearance: sections of "sheathing boards" are placed on the side surface of each frame. Then all splines belonging to the same "board" are merged (Attach), and a three-dimensional surface is built on their basis (Cross Section modifiers, and then - Surface). After assigning materials, additional coordinate binding of the used texture maps (UVW Mapping) will be required.

Of course, none of the images presented here pretend to be any kind of artistry or even completeness. All this is a work process that still goes on and on...

As the parts of the kit were added to the real model, the need for a comfortable organization of the assembly process gradually arose. In particular, it is quite obvious that the installation of frames on the keel is best done on some kind of slipway - the so-called. work stand. I am pleased to note that the design of the stand, which I independently invented, as a result turned out to be practically a twin shown in the educational film on assembling a sailboat attached to the second issue! A trifle, but nice!

Along the way, we managed to pick up paint and varnish materials that were suitable in color and type. Now all the parts, as described in the manual, are carefully sanded with fine sandpaper before assembly, tinted with stain of different colors ("oak" - for frames and "pine" - for decks, which, after gluing the flooring from 5 mm strips of the thinnest veneer, are covered twice with artistic acrylic varnish.). A month and a half behind...

It is with great pleasure and even (I will not hide!) some pride that I publish this literally yesterday "baked" composition on a shipbuilding theme. The author is one of the students of the Children's Art School No. 2 Ilya Lushnikov.

By the way, Ilya came to our computer class in mid-January 2010, and before that he had never dealt with three-dimensional graphics at all. These are the students in our Artist!

Nostalgic... I will not hide the fact that in the first place it was the nostalgia for those times when my introduction to the world of sails had just begun to start collecting the San Giovanni Battista model. And our first family yacht was the trimaran "Allegro" - a rebuilt rowing boat "Mullet", equipped for stability with retractable beams with foam floats and two sprit sails.

It was at the suggestion of Alfer that I, who had never taken anything heavier than a draftsman in my hands, in a relatively short time built a completely comfortable and seaworthy compromise "Theophilus North" according to a project taken from the magazine "Boats and Yachts".

We worked with Alfer then in the same organization. However, before that - too, in the department of the chief architect of KamAZ, from where almost at the same time, but according to various reasons, retired. And again agreed in the Club young technician KamAZ, where Alfer created the most interesting phenomenon in every sense - the Children's and Youth Shipyard. Well, your obedient servant "to the roar of a circular saw from a neighboring office" taught schoolchildren the basics of design. And, in particular, he also taught a rather interesting author's course "make-up from paper and cardboard", built mainly on the manufacture of various puzzles.

As an illustration, I will say that the final work of five-sixth graders after the end of the second year of study was an OPERATING model of the Rubik's cube, consisting exclusively of paper and glue! And besides, there were large-scale models of sailing yachts (how could it be without them ?!), the Nikolai Ostrovsky tank for the museum of one Chelny school, all kinds of decorative compositions, caskets with a combination lock, and so on. Indeed, the possibilities of paper are endless, as I could see while studying at the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute.

And so fate would have it that when a couple of years later Alfer Yagudin left the Club, it was completely logical for me to take his place and continue the work he started. In addition, my "puzzlers" somehow suddenly grew up and instead of making paper boats and caskets with a secret, they began to seriously think about the endless expanses of Kama ...

And so, the very next year, we successfully and with great pomp launched our cruising 6-meter catamaran, all the details of the hull of which were "turnkey" made on the third floor of the residential building 25/12, where the Club of the Young KamAZ vehicles...

All summer we went on multi-day hikes, stormed, toiled from boredom in calm, repaired "on the go" after unexpected breakdowns, swam, chattered our teeth from the cold in bad weather ... But this is a completely different story ...

On the first day of spring, the mood is frankly yachting. In the sense that it is already convincingly felt - the next navigation is just around the corner ... Therefore, I decided to please (or vice versa!) The visitors of the project PhotoDreamStudio a story about how I designed and built my trimaran "Pun".

First, a little theory.

Every boat builder knows that two types of drawings are used in the construction of a boat: theoretical and constructive. Theoretical describes the outer geometry of the hull. To do this, imaginary (and therefore called theoretical) sections are drawn across the boat along the entire length at regular intervals, called spacing, and coordinates are given for all hull lines on these sections - the height from the so-called. The main horizontal plane (OP), and half-latitude - the distance from the central diametral plane (DP). All these numbers are summarized in one Table of space ordinates, which is the basis for the actual design of the ship.

And then the fun begins! The placement of real frames, bulkheads, and indeed all structural elements of the vessel, as a rule, is subject to various "external requirements", primarily the tasks of ensuring seaworthiness, strength, general layout, layout of the main equipment elements, ergonomics, etc. And therefore, the problem arises of obtaining the exact dimensions of the hull section not in the place where a certain theoretical frame passes, but, say, 200 millimeters aft of it.

For this purpose, shipbuilders "of all times and peoples" use the so-called plaza - a drawing of a ship in life size, or, in extreme cases, a very large scale. On it, first, with the help of flexible rails and other devices, all the lines of the theoretical drawing are drawn, and then, if possible, the exact dimensions are taken at the installation sites of the real frames. If you are going to build, say, a 9-meter cruising yacht, and for designing you have, even if completely, gritting your heart, the “hall” of an ordinary panel high-rise building vacated for you by your household, then this method is simply created for you! Shutka.

Well, the author of these lines, who was then not a Dreamer, but the simplest Soviet Dreamer, since he didn’t even have a clue about the Internet, and he only knew about computers that they were “very large”, he went, as the FOUNDER bequeathed, to others dug into the literature, revived the once received (they say, one of the best in the Union) strong mathematical education (at one time I had a chance to study a little in one DIFFICULT military school ...), and as a result revealed to the world and even published in the aforementioned earlier in the magazine "Boats and Yachts" a method for designing small craft hulls based on the Lagrange interpolation polynomial. (There is a five-minute mute pause in the hall. Everyone stands up ...)

I will not bore the reader with boring details. I will only note that the smoothness of all lines, without local deflections (and for driving performance vessel, this is one of the basic requirements), is controlled in my method by means of the study of derivatives. In addition, the method allows you to calculate changes in the dimensions of the frame, taking into account the thickness of the material from which it will be made, that is, immediately put into the project the so-called. Malka. I implemented this method on a regular calculator. By the way, the opinion of the editors of the magazine came down to the fact that despite the novelty and originality, practical use it is difficult due to the large complexity of the calculations. The irony of fate is that while the publication was being prepared, I quite unexpectedly acquired a then popular programmable calculator and, thanks to it, a complete calculation of the hull of a vessel with any reasonable spacing began to take only a few hours! But it was already AFTER ... And do not be ahead of your time, here!

Everyone who saw our "team of professionals" unanimously told me: this idea is doomed to failure, because "they don't build yachts with a kindergarten!" To which I replied - "I am building a yacht for the family, and therefore I will do it - with the family. The process itself is important, that we do it TOGETHER." Who was right - judge for yourself!

And in conclusion of this block, which also turned out to be somewhat nostalgic, I publish several computer pictures to give an idea of ​​what we "built, built, and finally built!"

The last of the images presented here belongs to the "new" time - the other day in the classes at Khudozhka we studied DreamScape with children, with all the consequences ...

Well, for those who are not impressed by computer-virtual pictures, I suggest visiting the gallery of our site dedicated to REAL on our REAL yacht!

First of all, I congratulate all the visitors of the project PhotoDreamStudio Happy March 8th! On this spring day, I wish you happiness, beauty, and all the best!

In anticipation of the 7th issue, ship modeling work was mainly carried out in the virtual space. In pursuit of the real one, a working stand was made, and the texturing of the deck continued.

After a number of attempts, considered on the forum dedicated to the assembly of this model, by professional ship modellers, somewhat unsuccessful, the final (hopefully!) version of the deck flooring was developed into 3D.

The deck work coincided with a visit to our shipyard by a commission from the Ministry of Virtual Shipbuilding. Like, climbed everywhere ...

Brief summary of the check:
1. The scale of the building is impressive.
2. No safety violations were identified. Nearly.

After discussing the presented pictures on the mentioned forum, large-scale adjustments were made to the created model. The main starting point was that, as it became known from knowledgeable circles, the model of our sailboat is made in 1:50 scale in relation to the real ship.

In the images below, the Man in the Yellow Helmet and the construction site itself against the background of a modern multi-storey building are depicted in relative sizes more or less close to reality.

And when assembling this model, the first problems began to appear. With great surprise and disappointment, I discovered serious discrepancies in the size of the next batch of frames, in particular, the levels of the below-deck beams "dance" strongly. Despite the repeated assurances of the Publisher, further ship modeling work will be carried out with the most active use of files, hacksaws and other joinery and carpentry tools. And this is provided that all supplied parts are designed on a computer and cut by a laser! High tech...

The work envisaged by the 7th issue was completed late at night. By the light of dying fires, a traditional photographing "for memory" took place.

The virtual builder did not stand out with the final picture either...

We are waiting for the 8th edition!

It took Valery Semikin exactly six months to create a model of a ship of the 16th century - the galleon "San Giovanni Battista".

The history of the ship, whose name translates as "St. John the Baptist", is intertwined with the history of several European countries. Created in shipyards in Italy, the galleon then served the Spanish crown for a long time until it ended up in France, where it became the personal ship of Queen Catherine de Medici.

But, despite such a high-profile story, in Novorossiysk, the model of "San Giovanni Battista" was created in an ordinary garage.

The reason for creating the layout was enough good drawings ship, - says the author Valery Semikin. I used to have little experience in this kind of work. True, it was 35 years ago while serving in the Navy. My first model was the "Ingermanland" - one of the first Russian ships, the favorite brainchild of Peter I, he designed it himself. In my opinion, the history of the development of the fleet is extremely interesting. It can be used to judge many events of the past.

- Where were galleons like yours used?

The main impetus for the creation of such ships was the need for transportation between Europe and the American colonies. The galleons were most famous as ships carrying Spanish treasures, as well as in the battle of the Invincible Armada in 1588.

- Have these ships become a new word in shipbuilding?

Galleon "San Giovanni Battista" (St. John the Baptist)

The galleon "San Giovanni Batista" was built at Italian shipyards in 1598 in the Duchy of Tuscany, port of Livorno. Sailed under the flag with the coat of arms of the Medici family and fought against pirates in the Mediterranean and is a magnificent example of European galleons. This was modern ship with a displacement of 750 Spanish tons, a crew of 296 people (including soldiers) and an armament of 24 guns.

After a break associated with summer holidays(we lived in the country all the time, and I didn’t take the ship with me because in the summer there were already enough worries) the child and I resumed the construction of the galleon.

The first item of work was the windows in the aft superstructures that lead to the deck. I redid them. Now they look like this.

To align the skewed hull, I decided to put a bulwark on the upper battery deck.

They are inserted into the grooves and firmly fix the entire set, but in order not to suffer later with mounting the guns (the magazine suggests simply gluing them to the deck), you need to install eyelets around the gun ports and on the deck. There will be twenty-four guns on board. each of them is fastened with five eyelets. Immediately the question arose of what to make them. I did not like the copper wire because of its softness and color, the aluminum wire is also very soft, but the iron wire of the required diameter was not available. But there were plenty of steel sewing pins. Tried to bend - break. So you need to let them go. He took a lighter, heated the pin to red, while it also turned black, and let it cool. Next is the matter of technology. A couple of turns on the round pliers and the rings are ready. I had to tinker with the eyes themselves for longer, but I also coped with them without any problems.
In the heat of his work, he even made a doorknob for the company's cabins.

The next thing that held back the hull plating was the captain's cabin. In it, I was going to make an interior because it is visible through the windows. During the evening, I assembled a table, a chair, a chest and a bed from scraps of wood. He covered the bed with a blanket made of a white synthetic bag (I liked the drawing with squares), he thought of putting a card on the small table and lighting a candle. When all the furniture was ready, we fixed all the partitions and glued the decks.
This photo was taken through the aft gallery window.

After that, proceeded to sheathing the hull. Everything is according to the instructions here. The only thing is that they covered all the boards of the rough plating with a stain, so that the body inside was also dark, like the outer cladding made of mahogany.
In the process of work, it was necessary to bend the slats to fit the curvature of the hull. Having looked at the photographs of imported plank benders, we, without hesitation, went the other way.

Since this layer is rough, the prints of the pliers on the rail are not terrible, but on the inside the imprint of the nail was closed behind the frames.
According to the instructions, the nails should remain in the sheathing, but they have a high semicircular hat, which will interfere when pasting the body with veneer. Therefore, under each nail, I drilled a hole in such a way that it went into the bar completely. And during the wallboard sheathing, I used sewing pins at all (it is convenient to pull them out, and the sheathing will hold on anyway - there is a large area of ​​the glued surface).
I decided to make the skin between the cannon ports from separate rails, because for some reason I did not want to cut holes in the sides for these same ports. It turned out to be okay.

The hull plating is not yet finished in black. I collect "Batista" for two or three hours a day after work. But he had already reached the aft gallery. And now in thought, how many windows to make in board aft. With one it doesn’t look very good, but if you put the second one, then the railing of the aft balcony rests against it. Those. the choice is as follows: either one window, but not very beautiful, or two windows, but a balcony shortened by a centimeter.