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First of all let me say that I have a raging case of ADHD HA! I've been sitting and looking at my model of the Infanta Maria Teresa and I want to do something else. I've been building stacks and puzzling over building the overdeck framework for the boats so I took a side trip into my library...

Hi All I was lucky to be able to get some work done this weekend and it has been satisfying. Late last night I made prototypes for the main turrets out of supersculpy. I think that I will form 67lb. paper over these to make the turret. If anyone has a good idea I welcome the input...

just a short post w/ some more pics. I've got to start work on the 5.5 guns and shields and the main guns and turrets. Thanks Vernon

hi All more pics to post of work done this weekend. Vernon

Re: looking for Kate from Maly Modelarz Did you ever find this model? I think that I have it somewhere. vernon

Hi All I was able to get a little more done and I'vee added 2 pics. I built the barbettes for the main guns,placed the top of the gun shield on and I've been making ventilators and stacks. I'll be working on it this weekend and posting more pics as I go...

Ok.. I finally had a little time to work on the Infanta and was able to build the fore and aft superstructure...kind of a misnomer as they only enclose the boat deck and I build up the insides of the gun shields and formed the pads for the anchors. Today I hope to get the deck houses ,conning...

re:Chapelle I think that is the book that I photocopied and later lost ouch!

Yes I used line drawings of the ship as well as deck plans and hull lines as drawn by Julio Pillet, which I believe he had gotten from Spanish Naval Archives and after settling on 1/200 scale began preparing a waterline base main deck and centerline profile of the ship. hull lines were...

This is my first build post here @ cardmodels.net and I'm excited to be doing this. i posted here a while ago regarding info on this ship and slowly began to gather information. The Infanta Maria Teresa was the flagship of R. Adm. Cervera at the battle of Santiago during the Spanish-American war...

Hi All I'm trying to find info on British Orlando class cruisers, as they are very close in design to the spanish Infanta Maria Teresa. I'm looking for plan drawings and hull lines. any help is appreciated...

Does anyone have or know of plan photos of the Spanish cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa or have photos of the gun deck? Vernon aka Paperboy

Hi All I was so impressed with Corporal Trim's Wien along with the fact that its my computer background that I've been trying to find one. I only thought that the Betexa model was the sole rep. Does anyone have one that they're willing to trade or sell? I've got some old Matys to...