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Hubac's Historian

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  1. Hubac's Historian
    You might find that the stock lower battery 36-pounders look more to scale on the upper main deck battery, if you wish to take advantage of the nicely detailed Heller barrels.
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    I agree with what Ian is saying here. Generally, I find that it is better to go a little under scale than over scale - especially when it comes to hugely repetitive elements like the gunport lids and their hardware. It is useful to consider, not just how one lid looks in isolation, but how an entire broadside will look.
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    There is this related paper from 2015, from Ms Theron, which I suspect covers much of the same ground: https://www.academia.edu/41636304/La_bonne_fabrique_et_le_superbe_ornement_Pierre_Puget_s_ship_decoration
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    Aha - okay! I will also endeavor to track this down. This is something new. I thought, perhaps, that you were referencing the Portanier thesis, which had some good information in it, but which I did not find to be especially enlightening.
  5. Hubac's Historian
    Hello Late to Soleil! Are you mapping out an SR conversion project of your own?
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    P.S. I have also found John Ott’s log to be a treasure-trove of accurate historic perspective, and modeling technique.
  7. Hubac's Historian
    Thank you, Eric! As you are discovering now, much of plastic scratch-building is not as difficult as it may initially seem. When I started my project 7 years ago, I had done very little kit modification. Before I knew it, it had taken on a life all its own.
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    You’re not going to like what I’m about to say Bill, and of course this is a matter of opinion, but I think your model will be better served if you show your lower courses fully set. The topsails, t’gallants, etc all look very good, but the material you are using for the sails is too heavy, in my opinion, to show a sail in its middle stages of being either set or furled.
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    I just love a good reclamation project! Hi Eric, you are off to a great start here, and I love what you are doing with the upgrades and modifications. I do have to say that I tend to agree that the skids/fenders are a little too deep. Heller markets the kit as 1:100, but for my purposes I build to 1:96, as 1/8" to the foot is just an easy dimension to translate to scale. Personally, I would sand the skids a little closer to the hull tumblehome, and I would also round their bottom ends to a nice soft return on the lower main wale. I look forward to watching your progress. All the best, Marc
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    Can I ask you, Empathry, who the author of this thesis is?
  11. Hubac's Historian
    That bulkhead looks sharp, Michael!
  12. Hubac's Historian
    She is a CAPITAL ship, she is. Nice detail with the bowsprit shrouds!
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    Looks pretty perfect to me.
  14. Hubac's Historian
    Foot-ropes should absolutely be behind the sails. Whether they were even fully or partially present on French ships before the 1690s is a subject for debate.
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    I was, indeed, wondering that also.
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    Michael, is any of the model glued together at this stage?
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    Thank you, Michael! Agreed - the clarity of those images is pretty astounding!
  18. Hubac's Historian
    Brilliant lights, Michael, and very impressive how the whole stern came together.
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    That's a really nice touch to flesh-out the hancing ornaments on the inside of the bulwarks!
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    Sails look very impressive, Bill!
  21. Hubac's Historian
    Hi Jake, You should consider opening a build-log of your own to introduce and discuss the project. As far as the Mayflower is concerned, she is so early in English naval architecture that no sort of contemporary plans exist. Whatever ornamentation she might have had would be minimal and completely conjectural through the modern lens. I think naval historians are happy enough to have an approximate idea of her hull form as a merchant ship.
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    That rings familiar, Gary - I think you’re right on Elbert. I appreciate your looking in, and happy Holidays to you as well.
  23. Hubac's Historian
    We are all somewhat dated, John. Model ship making is a dated-man’s activity.
  24. Hubac's Historian
    I’ll second that, and say also that your execution of the moulding work is off to a sterling start. This is going to be one of the more fascinating projects on the site as something familiar - the hull for L’Ambiteaux - transforms into something less understood: Le Fulminant. Whomever made the hull really did an excellent job. On a personal level, I would not be enthusiastic about investing all of the time, research and carving work on a project like this, if the underlying woodwork were in any way sloppy. This hull, most assuredly, is not that. It all looks to be a very harmonious collaboration of highly skilled makers.
  25. Hubac's Historian
    Well, Bill, other modelers have been educating me along the way, and sometimes their suggestions are too compelling to ignore.

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