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GeorgeKapas
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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.
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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
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Using styrene stripes of various thicknesses to add the wales and side cheaks of the bow
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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.
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A lot of sanding down, alternating primers between white and black to see what I am doing
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The model in the condition she currently is.
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Adding the gunports using a pattern to follow the curve of each hull line above the main deck.
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Shaping the hull:
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As for the hull:
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So here the brent plan, cleaned and with a rough layout of the rig as seen above. Obviously any suggestions are more than welcome
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here she is along with much larger frigate Hellas
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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. This thread is about the frigate "Hellas" the flagship of the revolutionary Greek Navy. She is quite famous over here, even though she served very briefly and her demise is a rather indicative of the chaos during the early modern greek state. Built in the US, a formitable two decker frigate of 64 guns, the largest sailing ship ever properly commisioned in the Greek navy. Paid, along with a second sister ship, using foreign loans that were poorly managed, her sister was never delivered, and was commisioned instead in the US navy as USS Hudson. That is fortunate for us modelers, as her plans (and therefore Hellas') are available. She arrived in late 1826, and served until 1831. During the chaos of a large scale insurection against the Greek governor early after the independence, she was scuttled by burning along with several other ships. Drag files here to attach, or choose files...
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In any case here is the built so far: The method is similar to Ares, semi-solid built. In fact many of my 1/144 scale project ship hulls were started before Ares.
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The above contemporary drawing shows the ship in full sail, yet, I am not sure if she ever put to sea. Possibly between 1845-1855 (?) This is actually a rather important detail for the model, but lacking any other info, the painting is what we have. Her end is not recorded, technically part of the fleet untill the 1870s, but going through 1870s-1900s photos of Poros and Salamis naval bases, I think I spotted her:
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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. This thread is about the corvette "Loudovikos", named after Ludwig I of Bavaria, father of the first king of modern Greece, Otto von Wittelsbach. Built between 1837-1838, in Poros naval shipyard, designed by Georgios Tombazis, she was the first proper warship designed and built in Greece, and at 1000 tons, the largest domestically built warship for... 158 years until a MEKO200 frigate in 1996 (!) Her size was considered too big to operate for the impoverished nation, and she was placed immediately in ordinary. Nevertheless, a few year later, in 1845, the greek (Hellenic) Naval Academy was founded as a naval training school on board the corvette. So her history is quite significant.
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Arkadion ready! Photos from December 1st 2025 when I officially donated her to the Maritime Museum of Crete. It was a really interesting project, and I learned a lot. This type of ship and era is not really my speciality, so I was not very comfortable with the built, but the result is fair enough. Visitors and schooltrips will surely enjoy it. It is a significant part of the maritime history of Crete, and I am happy that a such a relevant subject is displayed there for the local community.
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Arkadion in the workshop of Maritime Museum of Crete, puting the last touches on it
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So here she is painted and rigged in my workshop, without the boats and some other equipment still to go. I had a deadline to catch, as December 1st is the anniversary of the union of Crete with Greece. The ceremony is conducted in the fortress were the naval museum in Chania is located, and Arkadi was included in the festivites' program.
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So here she is, unpainted. The deck, just like Ares and the rest of my models, was done in the PC and printed. I'll do some modifications for the rest of the projects thought,
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Speaking of bulwarks, I forgot to post them, also made with styrene.
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