First of all, thanks for the ship. To begin with, so that there is no confusion, in the lists of the Spanish fleet for the battle of the Downs, it still appears as "San Felippe" – and I think I will call it that.
As far as I understand, the ship was drawn from a modern model for assembly from a Spanish company. The problem is that the reliability of such models is often very bad. The main thing is to be recognizable, beautiful and sold.
At the same time, the «San Felipe» is described in sufficient detail," detailed documentation has been preserved from the shipyard that built it. Tonnage - 560 Spanish tons/tonelados (920 kg), 24 guns, not counting the light ones. In total, 42 were scored at Downs, as far as I understand.
This is the largest version of the "standard" galleon, after the defeat of the Great Armada, the Spaniards do not build very large ships for a long time.
There are much bigger problems with the appearance. The British from "Osprey" see it like this. "Spanish Galeon 1530-1690"
The sails on the mizzen mast are something from an alien, non-three-dimensional space, yes. Вut with regard to the case, the source of inspiration for the «Osprey» was not their own imagination, but a very famous book from 1616, which contains, let's say, drawings – «Livro de Traças de Carpintaria», author Manuel Fernandes. . Including, in fact, the "drawings" of the galleon for 500 Spanish tons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuel_Fernandes_-_Livro_de_Traças_de_Carpintaria_-_500_tonne_galleon.jpg
That is, yes, the stormy fortification in the bow and stern died at that time, the galleons are quite flat. A lot of paintings say about the same thing. That is, at a certain (and favorite by artists) angle, the aft superstructures look quite impressive, but in general everything fits into the framework of the "drawing".
The cargo nao has much larger superstructures. At the same time, Portuguese subjects of the Spanish crown built, among other things, "ultimatum" ships for 1000+ tons. Which are technically very large and well-armed nao (navio), are most often considered navios in Portugal, but the Spaniards in their fleet classify them as galleons. Others may or may not distinguish them from galleons.
For example, both "super galleons" in the Battle of the Downs are exactly such Portuguese non-galleons. One of them is the flagship, the «St. Teresa». We'll need it again. The aft superstructures of these ships are large, pretentious, but moderately elegant. These are the ones.
And here the Dutch are virtually sinking the "supergaleon" at Gibraltar 1607. The battle in reality was not very successful for them, so the small Spanish flagship turned into another Portuguese monster in propaganda.
And this is how the playful hands of modern Iberians like to draw the stern of the "Saint Teresa" on the basis of the same images.
The coin is especially "good". In general, this is not the «San Felipe». This is some kind of indeterminate galleon, to which they have attached a monstrous chest of drawers depicting the superstructure of twice as large ships. All sorts of small details are lost against this background, but they are there.
This does not mean in any way that you have wasted your work. Firstly, but not the main ones, very few people will notice this. Secondly, which is very cool, if the model is slightly modified, several "late Renaissance" ships can be made from it at once. But this is an activity for real maniacs , so… I'll probably do it. Somewhere in his old age.
