Harry White Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 OK so I am going to attempt to start modeling this ship, I won't lie I don't know much about naval history or much about the ship itself, I have some HD plans and Ragnar hairy trousers to help me with his knowledge of ships of this time and will try my best to make a model to this games high standards.I was wondering if anyone had or knows of reference pictures of this ship, there is a model that has had loads of pictures uploaded to Google, but it seems to be the 1790 model and not the one I have plans for, again I am a naval history noob, if there is any websites that have pictures of loads of ships could you link them?Many thanks Harry Edit: I have just found the La Sirene in the List of ships presented so far thread, not that ship, this is a much smaller Frigate here are the Plans, the top is La Sirene, the bottom is the HMS Unicorn. The main reference pictures I have are these, http://www.modelships.de/La_Sirene/La_Sirene_eng.htm which are all nice, and it seems to be the same ship, however, the model only has 12 gun ports the plans I have for the La Sirene has 13 gun ports, it seems the model is missing the last gun on each row. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I believe the Sirene in the picture you posted is the French-built 8-pounder frigate from 1740, captured by the English in 1760. The draught is from Chapman and probably the most reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry White Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yes I am currently trying to get some details on the bow and stern done, however it is hard due to the lack of pictures on them model I am doing, and I am really not looking forward to the figure head, that will be a B**** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry White Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 So this is her so far, 6 hours in and she is taking shape For any fellow modellers, how do you 'guess' where each hatch goes etc. on the top down view of the ship in the plans all the hatches and other features are smack bang down the centerline of the ship, surely that cannot be correct? again I am a full on noob so school me if its needed. P.S in blender why does some of the faces go different colours? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry White Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 Busy old night. Any comments please feel free, I will not take offence, I am fairly new. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Loe Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Busy old night. Any comments please feel free, I will not take offence, I am fairly new. Better than me, I can't model hulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry White Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 The blueprints for this made it super easy, they are HD and all labeled, currently trying to model one were the plans are really low res. And hard to make out, takes double the time but is much more rewarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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