This post and gallery is here to let You know a bit of how swedish warships of this time era could have looked liked, what was their "livery", their color scheme, and what kind of flags did they use as well as how were these flags placed.
So, just like it's been said many times on this blog, I would like to use a lot of national swedish colors ( blue & yellow ) to make those swedish vessels easily recognizable.
As You will see on pics below, models, paintins, etc, they already show this kind og approach, well in many case, cause, even tho it's not historically accurate, their is a need to give some kind of a "uniform" to everything.
Like, for example, my friend Plamen Videv, who is a much bigger experts on ships than me, gave his models of "Vasa" a lot of blue and yellow, even tho he knows perfectly well that the original "Vasa" would have a lot more red/pink features.
The reason for that? He just wanted this ship to look "swedish" ;)
Therefore I'd like to use the same approach, I'd like rails to show a lot of blue, I'd like gunports to show a lot of blue and yellow ( or gold ), same with sterns etc. And, this is my very own idea, I'd like to make sails of swedish vessels to be a bit more yellowish, or blueish as well. I don't wanna force this idea, but I'd like to try it at least, as it's just an another possible way to tell different fleets apart.
Also, sails are rather large, and they will take a lot of space on illustrations or comic book pages, therefore it wouldn't look good if they were all left white.
A note on construction.
Swedish vessels were often built by the Dutch or were ordered/bought in Holland, therefore they could be similar to those shown in my post about Dutch vessels.
And, last but not least, decorations on swedish ships could and should feature a lot of swedish national symbols, like golden swedish lions, three golden crowns, etc.
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