GeorgeKapas

Some closeups. I am going through older photos so all the projects are up to date. I have been following the work of fellow modeler @threebs for Hellas, as it is a large US built frigate.

The top side of the bulwarks, where the hammocks are stored has a simple decorative pattern, I took inspiration from a painting of admiral Miaoulis show this part of the ship. I doubt the painting is very accurate tbh, but it is similar to other US frigates of the era I've seen

Using styrene stripes of various thicknesses to add the wales and side cheaks of the bow

Thank you, in fact, I made this tiny 1/350 sideproject version of her for fun a few years ago and came out fair enough.

A lot of sanding down, alternating primers between white and black to see what I am doing

The model in the condition she currently is.

Adding the gunports using a pattern to follow the curve of each hull line above the main deck.

Shaping the hull:

As for the hull:

So here the brent plan, cleaned and with a rough layout of the rig as seen above. Obviously any suggestions are more than welcome

This painting faithfully follows the brent plan and shows her original, propably temporary, rig, with her figurehead on the right. This contermporary (1828) depiction of he is extremely interesting, showing her rig as it most probably was when in commision in greek waters, with a bonaventure mizzen added, and all masts converted to fore and aft, logically, as she was steaming often against or near the wind.

Good evening all! So I have this idea to create a series of 1/144 scale models of greek 19th century ships (along with some other older types of vessels related to the history of Crete specifically). The brig "Ares" was the first of the project to finish. I'll start a thread for each one of them, with a goal to finish this collection in about 2027-2028. The steam ship Karteria (1826) is quite an important warship is the history of naval warfare in general. Not the first steam warship built, but the first ever too see combat. Under the effective command of Frank Abney Hastings she saw considerable action during the Greek war of independence, especially during the battle of Itea. Part of her engines actually still exist and are preserved in Salamis naval base, as they were converted into land machinery after she was decommisioned soon after independence. Her proper shipyard plans are the "Brent" plans ( compared to other simpler drawings that exist) Notice two things: 1) Yes, she is square. This will be hard to sell in the finished model, but that is no mistake, she had a square cross section. Many models dont replicate this very well because it does look wrong. I guess because her first boilers were box ones. Oh well. 2) Her rig as shown in the plans was not the one she had in commision, since the square sails were used only for the voyage from UK to Greece. Being a steam ship that could operate against the wind, she was obviously converted to for and after rig.

The above plans, taken from "the History of the American sailing navy" have no deck arrangement and no rigging plan, so I made one by refering deck plans of similar designed frigates from the same book, like the USS Macedonian USS Raritan etc.

Here she is along with much larger frigate Hellas