3 minutes ago, druxey said:

Take each relief carving one at a time. Looking at the whole tafferel load at once is rather daunting!

Thanks Druxey, you bet.  I am not made of the right stuff to attempt doing it in one piece.

It looks like Apollo has landed on his feet.  He's a cutie!

Pretty impressive, Chris.  You are slowly eroding my resistance to card models ... oh dear, another rabbit hole .

Update:

I'm chipping away at the frames as time allows, will post photos when I reach a natural break.  

Also, work has begun on the fixture to hold work in progress for stern decorations. 

The Society of Model Shipwrights is linked with MSW as a chapter club.  A talk on building Berwick is now on their channel:

Bruce

These may be of use:

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

HTH,

Bruce

FM, good advice (as usual) from Allan, and another book by Philip Reed is close to your stated needs:

PERIOD SHIP MODELMAKING An Illustrated Masterclass

It's on Ebay, AbeBooks and other places as well.  In iit he walks us through building Prince de Neufchatel in 1/192 scale.

McNarry and his wife were superb modelmakers and won quite a few pots at early Model Engineer Exhibitions in London.

HTH,

Bruce

What Allan said, plus check the lines with a straightedge and measure the diagonals (corner to corner) for skew.  

Hello Paul and welcome to MSW from the UK.

Update: AL have just announced a whole new Santisma Trinidad:

Also, JoTika are promising a 74 with an interesting history.  My bet is it will be HMS Defiance, a Trafalgar veteran, but we will have to wait and see.

This is from NMM/RMG Collections, ZAZ6764.  

From Falconer, 1780:

No mention of chains.

HTH,

Bruce

Fascinating. 

My only potential contribution is to look at the word FULMINANT when translated into English. The modern translations all steer us to 'angry', 'furious' or 'quick like lightning' but the older translations included 'splendid'. 

The magnificent drawings have a theme of bundled lightning and flaming spheres.  They follow military decorations and emblems of grenadiers of the period so closely that it cannot be a co-incidence. These decorations would have suited a bomb vessel. 

Bummer. 

It would help a lot to know a some more such as what paint, was it brushed or sprayed?  It looks like a plastic model so hopefully it will stand a bit of handling during the repairs.

Bruce

Kevin, just watched your newest video online.  Nice work, enjoy your break.

These drawings from the Danish archives may be of help.

D206 is for English ships '80 and 100 guns', undated but from late 18th century:

D201, as above but for 74 gun ships:

G4728, more 74 gun ship masts:

You can download hi-res copies free from their website:

Arkivalieronline (sa.dk)

HTH

Bruce

Lovely model,  Richard, and I like her just the way she is.  

Some insights into lessons learned in the 1400's.

The_revolutionary_cannon_of_the_15th_cen.pdf

Fantastic job, Ken, and what a great subject.

I was lucky enough to see this beast run.  Tommy sold it to a guy (name long forgotten) who put a Buick station wagon body on and VIOLA! - instant funny car.  It was a crowd pleaser.  I have some 8mm film of it somewhere, now that you have reminded me.

Again, good job.

👍

Well done!  Absolutely beautiful model, superb workmanship: you should be proud of this one.

I learned a lot., thank you.

Update: I've remade a handful of frames and am plodding through the steps already described to get them into play.  The next step requires all frames to be present and correct.

In the meantime, I had a very pleasant visit to Royal Museums Greenwich (a.k.a. The National Maritime Museum).  The only plan of Berwick showing the stern decoration and figurehead, J2632, is not available online in hi-res and I am glad to say I was allowed to view the original.  The detail is superb and, I confess, more elaborate than I had imagined.  There was a 'what have I done?' moment but it passed.

For copyright compliance reasons I will not post the images taken directly from the original.  However, I have begun a crude process of digitally separating the components and looking for clues as to what was carved and what was painted.  It is based on J2632 but is modified enough to allow me to comfortably post it here.

This is work-in-progress, a tool to get me closer to the finished model and will evolve.  Plan A at the moment is to start on the stern decoration as soon as the re-drawing is completed, the figurehead later.

Allan, I got this message ...

... and downloaded the file. It worked fine (had to click 'enable editing' when prompted).

11 hours ago, kurtvd19 said:

 ... anyone building a British warship of the late 18^th century. 

 

Kurt, I am sure this will be popular. Which edition is it please?

Kevin, I already watched it online. You have raised the bar.

I wish I could find a book sale like this.

Well done.

Nice!