Malachi Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Quote Sort of like Americans armed with assault rifles for hunting varmints. You can hunt varmints and you can hunt varmints in style But this is the most conventional draft of af Chapman´s 1798 'series', there are designs for a frigate armed with 26*30-pounders, a brig with 14*18-pounders and a 110-gun ship with 30*42-pounders on the lower gun deck. Although it seems that speed was the main aspect for Chapman with this ship, not firepower. 149 swedish feet length and 'just' 24 18-pounders are a bit out of character for him (for comparison, the Bellonas carried 26 24-pounders with 156 swedish feet) Edit: this is another ship designed in 1798 I really, really like: the smallest of the series, a 'snau-brigg' with 14 6-pounders (or 14 18-pounder carros). Edited April 5, 2019 by Malachi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvenski Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 there are designs for a frigate armed with 26*30-pounders Are those carronades or regular-length cannons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Regular length, but on sliding carriages. And the swedish pound weighs less then a britsh pound, so 30 swedish pounds are 28 or 29 british pounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvenski Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Still, that's a lot of firepower for a 26-gun frigate... Edited February 8, 2016 by Arvenski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Leonidas Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Regular length, but on sliding carriages. And the swedish pound weighs less then a britsh pound, so 30 swedish pounds are 28 or 29 british pounds Might be the Boat we need to Sting the Danes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) Put a bit more work into the stern, almost looks like a proper ship now, at least from behind This is af Chapman´s drawing of the stern deco, ornate but elegant imo. Edited April 5, 2019 by Malachi 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 (edited) Didn´t have a proper deck plan, so I had to come up with something on my own: More fiddly bits coming soon. Edited April 5, 2019 by Malachi 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 (edited) Possible colour scheme and more tiny pieces on deck: Thanks for all the likes, by the way Edited April 5, 2019 by Malachi 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Chaser city! Nice detail on the head of the rudder. What's the figurehead going to be? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Thanks No proper figurehead, just a bust. Since this thing was designed to chase smugglers, I think Hekate, a greek goddess associated with witchcraft and believed to protect entrances/passages, might be a nice name. And she´d make for a quite interesting bust: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Hecate_Chiaramonti_Inv1922.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvenski Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 (edited) Possible colour scheme and more tiny pieces on deck: Thanks for all the likes, by the way I don't know whether to say "Oh my" or "Holy shit!" Either way, that is one awesome model, Malachi. Edited February 16, 2016 by Arvenski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) Hmhm, the weather deck sat a bit too high, corrected that. And I never posted the actual plan for the ship, so here we go: Edited April 5, 2019 by Malachi 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Wow, what a beautiful ship! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Pretty!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Must be in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 That´s what I think, too No progress this week, though, bought a new gaming rig on tuesday and it took a while to set thing up again. Should have plenty of modelling time next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psilander Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I'm going to have to get both these ships if they make it in game just for the shere Beauty of these ships. Really like the paint jobs too even though I'd like to see a "Vasa" type paint job as well. I like the blue paint job on the Vasa. (don't know if the blue on is the actual Vasa paint job but if you google you'll see what I mean) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 Vasa (the one with the...uhm, stability problems) was red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomms123 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Vasa (the one with the...uhm, stability problems) was red Well Malachi to be fair that is the colors they think is the original colors ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psilander Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Yeah I don't know which color was the original color on the Vasa but this one is the one I'm refering to and way prettier than the ugly red Vasa one. http://www.shipsofscale.com/gallery/barbossa/vasa/vasa05.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Some new about the ships of this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daHeld Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 On 6.3.2016 at 3:26 AM, Tomms123 said: Well Malachi to be fair that is the colors they think is the original colors ^^ Well, they have painted the model according to the original pigments they found on the Vasa, so you can be pretty sure it was red indeed. If it looks better or worse is just a matter of personal preference and what is considered to be aesthetic changes over the centuries a lot. And a blue paintjob would have been more expensive than gold when the Vasa was built, so it would have been out of the question anyway... @Malachi: Where did you get those draughts from? Is there an online archive like the one from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich? And marvelous job, by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirones Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 the book from chapman with all his shipplans from the 1700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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