Hellas by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 Greek frigate

[GeorgeKapas]

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.

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[GeorgeKapas]

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.

[GeorgeKapas]

[GeorgeKapas]

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