Revell 'Spanish Galleon' in wargame service?

[Prof Pulp]

Hi, I recently stumbled over a beaten up and unfinished Revell ‘Spanish Galleon’ with a lot of spare parts. Box says 1/96 - like other ships of that range. But that’s wrong. It is far bigger – rather 1/70. Even 25mm minis seem to match. For comparison I added some Old Glory ghostly pirates (since I have no English sea dogs or Spaniards yet):



The ‘Spanish Galleon’ is no true scale model. In fact, it was intended to serve as a room decoration in the 1970ies. The masts are by far too high.
But the hull is not bad at all to represent an Elizabethan/Tudor ship. Without the upper sails the rigging might look more convincing. Here’s a manufacturer’s pic of a completed model:



Revell also did an ‘English Man O’War’ which featured a slightly different head knee, rear upper structure and an additional mizzen-mast. That one is harder to find today while the ‘Spanish Galleon’ still is available.



Since there is no big choice in affordable 1500’s ships, I’ll give it a try and rebuilt it.

[grant]

A very cool find!

[former user]

I bought both a long time ago but never managed to actually convert them.
I shall look forward to Your solution

[Col.Stone]

Thaaaaaank yoooouu!!!!!

[cdm]

I have that one and a 1/60 Mayflower by some other manufacturer, Trumpeter maybe. They do the job nicely, but I confess to finishing neither at this point. Construction is fairly easy and a good fit. Not a huge amount of deck room for mass combat but enough for either small fights, un based figures, or back drops for shore bound games which is my intention. I never planned on fully rigging them as display pieces.

[Hussar072]

I have a model of Drake's "HMS Ark Royal" by "Life-Like Hobby Kits" (no scale shown on the box), I started painting it but never finished. Hmmm wonder if I could find more on ebay?