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AllanKP69 said:

Welcome back to the wood shop!! Looks like a lovely model. Do you or does anyone following your builds know if there are contemporary plans for Royal Louis 1780 at the Musee National de la Marine in Paris or Musee National de la Marine in Toulon? Thank you.
Allan

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Hi Allan. I agree it looks like a lovely model, I only hope that I can do it justice. I don’t know anything about this ship other than the introduction in the kit. I usually just build from what is included with a kit rather than historical accuracy and that will be the case for this model, I’ll be treating the build as therapy. Ken

Update on my Axel Thorsen Build

I finished the Cutty Sark, should be doing other things , but i easily get seduced away to this little scratch project, the Amphion. it is colourful and unusual (like me, or so i'm told)
I am fitting the rowing deck to this Swedish royal yacht and this is the first time i have realised where the ship gets her name...Amphion, son of Zeus,was capable of moving stone by the power of his singing and the music of his lyre, and ...here it is! I could literaly fit strings to it and play a few chords.
Surprising.

AllanKP69 said:

know if there are contemporary plans for Royal Louis 1780 at the Musee National de la Marine in Paris or Musee National de la Marine in Toulon?

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I do not know about either museum, however, there is a figure in Rif Winfield's catalog of French warships that is of the masting and rigging. The key for the figure says that it was taken from Amiral Paris, Souvenirs de Marine. Further, that he used a takeoff of the vessel drawn when it was being dismantled - so not design plans. I checked my reprint (1975) and in vol 1 the masting is #103 The lines are #104. There is the usual three plane view. There are only WL. No buttock lines and no diagonals.

Hi, I bought the HMS Enterprise mid section 1:160 scale back in October 2025 and finished in Just after the new year. I doubt I'll ever get anything in this scale again. I enjoyed doing it but it's just too small for my hands. Had lots of issues and made a few mistakes but got it finished.

Thanks

I'm excited about a new smaller project I'm doing to build and paint a Chinese Dragon Boat model(!) In Philadelphia PA where I live, competitive skulling/crew (single, double, quad, and eight-oar shells) and competitive Dragon Boat racing (10-oar and 20-oar plus taiko drummer and coxswain/rudderman) are very popular from elementary school teams to pro races. We have many Regattas each year in both categories, like the Dad Vail Regatta, Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, the Quaker City Regatta, and the Independence Dragon Boat Regatta. Usually, the Dragon Boats are painted with bright neon club colors, and I've chosen to paint my Dragon Boat model with the colors of the Schuylkill Dragons, an all-women, all ages, club based on MLK Drive. Their current colors are kelly green and white (Philadelphia Eagles football team colors), gold, turmeric yellow, and maroon. Everything is primed for painting, but I will have to fabricate the taiko drum, mallets and megaphone from scratch.

















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Ignatius27 said:

I'm excited about a new smaller project I'm doing to build and paint a Chinese Dragon Boat. In Philadelphia PA where I live, competitive skulling/crew (single, double, quad, and eight-oar shells) and competitive Dragon Boat racing (10-oar and 20-oar plus taiko drummer and coxswain/rudderman) are very popular from elementary school teams to pro races. We have many Regattas each year in both categories, like the Dad Vail Regatta, Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, the Quaker City Regatta, and the Independence Dragon Boat Regatta. Usually, the Dragon Boats are painted with bright neon club colors, and I've chosen to paint my Dragon Boat model with the colors of the Schuylkill Dragons, an all-women, all ages, club based on MLK Drive. Their current colors are kelly green and white (Philadelphia Eagles football team colors), gold, turmeric yellow, and maroon. Everything is primed for painting, but I will have to fabricate the taiko drum, mallets and megaphone from scratch.

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Reading your blog, I am thinking to myself wow, good on you, committing to making a boat for the local clubs to race. Continue reading and seeing the photos of the ladies in action I am still thinking this is great. Then I scroll to the actual project and think oh, a model of a dragon boat…of course, this is a model forum I am in…LOL. Great job , looks fantastic, and gave me a little chuckle to myself about my initial interpretation, which is always welcome…

itwbluey said:

Reading your blog, I am thinking to myself wow, good on you, committing to making a boat for the local clubs to race. Continue reading and seeing the photos of the ladies in action I am still thinking this is great. Then I scroll to the actual project and think oh, a model of a dragon boat…of course, this is a model forum I am in…LOL. Great job , looks fantastic, and gave me a little chuckle to myself about my initial interpretation, which is always welcome…

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LOL! I made an edit to be clear its a Dragon Boat model! If I was building an actual Dragon Boat for racing I think I would need a few more tools in my boat model shop, like a timber planer... Thanks for connecting - this is a great forum for all of us.