Looks like a scene from Where The Wild Things Are. Nice job on the lion—going to be a great addition!
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HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries
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The taffrail lion is complete.
Always impressive reading your posts Kurt, really excellent work.
The scottish unicorn is being posed into the rampant pose for the starboard taffrail sculpture.
Start object
Added the kite shield with the Royal Badge of Scotland. Next is to add the crown around the horse's neck and the chain wrapped around its torso.
Start object
Added the kite shield with the Royal Badge of Scotland. Next is to add the crown around the horse's neck and the chain wrapped around its torso.
The Scottish unicorn on the stern taffrail is complete.
The stern taffrail sculptures face outboard and rearward at an angle of 45 degrees based on how they appear on both the painting of Peter Pett and HMS Sovereign of the Seas and the Payne Engraving.
The stern taffrail sculptures face outboard and rearward at an angle of 45 degrees based on how they appear on both the painting of Peter Pett and HMS Sovereign of the Seas and the Payne Engraving.
Two decorations which are very hard to distinguish that are located below the pilatser figures on the upper stern were done today. One seemed to have a mascaron face on it, the face image seeming clearer on the starboard side in Lely's painting, and the port side figure impossible to discern what it is. So, I took my best guess at it, using the painting's image itself as a displacement map applied to a fine grid for the starting point in sculpting the 3-D objects. Not the most detailed object, but when printed, it will only be 4-5mm tall.
I haven't posted in your log very often, Kurt, but I am certainly impressed by the steadfast work you're putting into making all those ornaments 3D-print ready. I'm really curious to see how it turns out.
Regards, Peter
Regards, Peter
Thanks for stopping by, Peter! I'm curious how it will turn out also. I think it will turn out okay, with a few mistakes here and there, but with careful planning, the end result willl be just fine. The decorations on the starboard side will go faster, since most are mirrors of the port side. I have to learn how to use the resin printer after that, and there are a few members here who can help get that kickstarted.
Kurt,
Your several hundred computer created images for upcoming 3d printing NEED TO BE copyright protected IMO. you are also creating a valuable intellectual property. But then again, I know nothing about this one-way-or-the-other --- just thinking out loud.
That said, if another manufactured were interested in really producing - a badly needed - other example of the Sovereign (As we all have discussed until the end of time the Sergal example, if not bashed, is such a poor offering)....your work would be an amazing addition for such a kit. And could be scaled as needed -- These days Artesania Latina are producing some very good new kits.
Cheers,
Your several hundred computer created images for upcoming 3d printing NEED TO BE copyright protected IMO. you are also creating a valuable intellectual property. But then again, I know nothing about this one-way-or-the-other --- just thinking out loud.
That said, if another manufactured were interested in really producing - a badly needed - other example of the Sovereign (As we all have discussed until the end of time the Sergal example, if not bashed, is such a poor offering)....your work would be an amazing addition for such a kit. And could be scaled as needed -- These days Artesania Latina are producing some very good new kits.
Cheers,
I never thought of this work as anything more than the result of a hobby, not a sold commodity, except for the models themselves, which will be sold cheaply to other builders. If the Chinese somehow acquire those models, and pump out millions of them to other modelers, that will in fact extend the purpose behind them, which is to get them in the hands of other builders so they can build fine models easier. Building HMS Sovereign of the Seas properly is a VERY daunting model project. It would be nice to be able to sell the work for money and many professional modelers do, but I am not in that profession, and the models are not up to par in that field based on their topology alone. The models require lost of improvements and corrections. With the advent of AI model generation, members here have already been able to easily create better looking models for the Sovereign than the ones I created using free object assets and very basic functions in Blender. I am too cheap to pay the fees required for those AI object generators.
If someone such as Chris Watton of Vanguard Models were to make a set of SotS decorations, they would be much better in quality, and he could sell them with confidence for lots of money. I have reaped the benefits of the advice and fellowship of many members here. Making these decorations available to beginner and intermediate modelers without breaking them financially will be my way of giving back to the community.
And besides, if some Chinese outfit decides to churn out a million of these for pennies to the pound, nothing so mundane as a copyright is going to deter them.I never thought of this work as anything more than the result of a hobby, not a sold commodity, except for the models themselves, which will be sold cheaply to other builders. If the Chinese somehow acquire those models, and pump out millions of them to other modelers, that will in fact extend the purpose behind them, which is to get them in the hands of other builders so they can build fine models easier. Building HMS Sovereign of the Seas properly is a VERY daunting model project. It would be nice to be able to sell the work for money and many professional modelers do, but I am not in that profession, and the models are not up to par in that field based on their topology alone. The models require lost of improvements and corrections. With the advent of AI model generation, members here have already been able to easily create better looking models for the Sovereign than the ones I created using free object assets and very basic functions in Blender. I am too cheap to pay the fees required for those AI object generators.
Ain't that the truth.
The head dress for the winged Victory is done.
A major milestone was achieved today as work is beginning on the starboard side decorations. Although most of them are mirror copied of those on the port side, many are either unique, or contain letter initials which had to be removed, mirrored, and reapplied to their respective decoration models. All the initials were cut from their background objects, holes patched, then new initials were re-merged with the background objects. This took a lot of cleanup and polygon surgery, but I'm happy to say that they are done. New hancing figures on the waist for Mars near the forecastle and Jpiter aft near the half deck need to be generated. The figurehead of King Edgar was removed, already being included in the port side collection of models. Various zodiac icons will be replaced with the other zodiac icons as shown below, per Hendrik Busmann. The painting of the starboard side of the hull (once owned by Samuel Pepys) will be used as a guide for some of the icon models, although their is quite a difference between these decorations and those on the Payne engraving in content and style.
This is going to be the most accurately decorated SOS ever...!
Not ever! Go look at the Culver model in Annapolis, Wolfgang Rotter's model in Germany, or Doris Obručová's model in Czechia. I aspire to make my model as close to those as I can get. However, it will be much better than what the available kits are. When it started. I wanted an easy job building this model, and was disappointed that no kit offered accurate features and decorations. The build has been going on for almost 6 years now. I thought it was going to be a basic kit build finished in three years. But, I just couldn't resist making this model without devoting my best effort. Thanks for following this build log this far, @GrantTyler !
And thanks to all the other members here cheering me on and offering advice and discussions. That has made this build more fulfilling.
