Carcass 1758 by barkeater - scale 1:48

[barkeater]

The Carcass bomb vessel saw action in the Seven Years War as well as the American Revolution. Horatio Nelson served on her as a midshipman during the arctic exploration of 1773. The build will be double plank on bulkhead. Plans are from the National Maritime Museum. It will be as originally commissioned with mortars which were removed for the arctic exploration.

Rich

[Jim Lad]

An interesting ship to model - made famous, of course, by the painting 'Nelson and the bear'.

 

John

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Really interesting choice, Aetna of the revised Carcass design is on my ToDo list. So I will follow with great interest.

Edited April 12 by AnobiumPunctatum

[barkeater]

Rabbet line is done, and bulkheads have been cut out. I will trim them to fit the keel assembly as I go. Also next up framing out the stern assembly.

Rich

[barkeater]

The bulkheads have been installed as well as the sub decks for both the main deck and quarterdecks. There is a foredeck, but this is open to the main deck along its aft portion.  I will not do a subdeck but rather a single plank on beams. I found two slightly different sets of plans from the NMR. One has two masts while the other has three and the quarterdecks are different lengths. I went with the 3 masts as this is how she is depicted by John Cleverly the Younger on her Nordic expedition with the Racehorse. Next job is fairing.