A  model of the frigate "Blas de Lezo"

by Juan Carlos Gorostiza

 In a former post on my blog "Oteando desde Getxo" (Scanning from Getxo), I presented some ship models manufactured by my friend Juan Carlos Gorostiza, which bind to the charm inherent to any ship model, the simplicity of the construction methods used by Juan Carlos, what makes doubly attractive the contemplation of his models with the awareness of his techniques. But note that simple methods do not mean this is an easy job, much less. In my opinion it is doubly worthy achieving so good results when the methods are so affordable.

¿ How much does a ship weigh ?

Archimedes' principle

This question is deliberately ambiguous and what intends to ask is how can you get the weight of a ship, referring, of course, to a large ship, that can not be placed on a balance. It also refers to the weight of a real floating ship  already built and it is not considering here the weight estimation during the ship's design phase.

"Begoña del Mar"

A new ship model from Juan Carlos Gorostiza

 A few days ago Guillermo Avanzini sent to me an information on the new model built by our mutual friend Juan Carlos Gorostiza, about whose wide and remarkable production I posted an entry in this blog here. 

This time it comes to  the ship  "Begoña del Mar", third  in a series that was built in the 60's for the Company Equimar Maritima and was built in Corbasa (Santander)  at 1970.

A model of sailing vessel "Tuiga"

In my post from January 14 this year I presented several ship models built by Juan Ignacio Argaluza, who is an expert ship models craftman, what can be appreciated by looking at the pictures of his creations, although it´s not the same as seeing the actual models , in order to appreciate the extraordinary detail and accuracy of its components.