Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates Volume 2

[hollowneck]

38 minutes ago, glbarlow said:

I believe it was mentioned Ages of Sailis your US distributor but I don’t see your products on their website, did I misread that?

 

I am considering ordering Harpy, but not sure how I’ll get it. 

Glenn: 

https://www.agesofsail.com/shop-cat/vanguard-models-ship-model-kits/

 

Their indicated prices may be before the tariff debaucle and appear to be adjusted for the £ to USD premium. Hopefully, AOS have inventory pre-craziness so you don't have to navigate the U.S. Customs/tariff shipping nightmare.

[glbarlow]

Thanks Ron!

[chris watton]

Regarding my research for Agamemnon, and the Ardent Class in general, I shall preempt any possible concerns regarding the stern and number of stern lights/windows.

 

For me, it is settled that this is a true reflection of the Ardent Class, designed by Slade:

 

 

Now, it is very easy to get confused with another HMS Ardent, a Crown Class 64 launched in 1782 , so two decades after Slade's Ardent, of which  the plans do show the stern and with 8 windows on the lower tier. But it is NOT the Ardent of the early 1760’s, of which class the Agamemnon belonged.

 

The only plans of all of the Ardent Class (I know this because I bought a copy of every single available plan just to make sure) that show the stern detail is that of the Indefatigable, as shown above, and it is this that I shall be working to. I do not care so much about what paintings show, they can be wrong and most times done many years later.

 

So in lieu of anything more concrete than the actual plans of the original, which I am working to, the above stands.  According to my research, Agamemnon, all of the Ardent Class, had 7 lower lights at the stern, and not 8, and the kit will be modelled/developed as such.