Greetings from the North East of England. I have been following many posts and builds on this excellent website for a while now. I suspect like many members, I have reinvigorated my model making skills (such as they are) in the last few years as I approached retirement and can lay the blame on the Covid lockdown in 2020. That was when I pulled out a half built model of HMS Victory from the attic and was able to sit down, undisturbed and complete the build.
I am in no way as good a modeller as most on this site, but have built many kits over the years. These have included the Scottish Maid, Clara May, HMS President, The Dallas, HMS Victory (1:98 scale version), Sherbourne, a Viking longboat and most recently HM Brig Badger. I am currently trying to complete the Norske Love which I bought many years ago (pre-laser cutting) with it's sparse instruction manual. Fortunately I have been able to find many helpful bits of advice here.
I do now seek help with another project, which has featured in Model Ship World a number of years ago - the 1:10 scale model of HMS Venerable in the Sunderland Maritime Heritage Museum. I have volunteered to help progress this build which seems to be collecting a generation of modellers. We are planning to paint the hull as for the Battle of Camperdown (1797), but I cannot find any guidance on what colours were used. The closest I have got is from paintings of the battle, but as the artist would not have been present, I wonder how accurate the scene is. Maybe some experts in RN ships of the line could tell me or point me in the right direction?
Another advance we are planning is the stern decoration. We have the LotS guide book for HMS Bellona, an earlier 74 gun 3rd rate ship, which shows detailed stern decoration. However, HMS Venerable was actually of the Culloden Class so again I wonder if the stern decoration might be different.
If anyone is interested in this project, please check out the heritage website below
https://www.sunderlandmaritimeheritage.org.uk/?page_id=257