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I would like to present you my latest project Le Brilliant 1690. Subject is challenging as original plans haven't survived till today. Fortunetly we have plans taken form
Tanneron's model in Musée de la Marine de Paris which is much better situation then Soleil Royal model. Another positive thing Brilliant model looks much less questionable and there's not a debate how much Tanneron changed in it in a way that can't fit historical period of ship. However, there are still some differences between the model and Berain's sketches which I intend to fill in.
I deliberately named this thread as a 3D project and not a model because I don't want to limit myself to just visualizations. Just like with Renommee, I want to create the whole ship, not just the decorations. This creates a much greater difficulty because there are no drawings of the weapons or equipment, let alone the planking.
After studying a large amount of materials and consultations, and especially thanks to @GuyM and @Hubac’s Historian who were patient in answering all my questions, I believe I will be able to fill in these gaps.
Moving on to the practical aspect of the project, I should point out something that affects the historical accuracy of the model being built. In the case of plans from the NMM or the Danish archives, ornamentation and decorations are often superimposed on the plans. In this case, for the reasons mentioned above, I am more inclined to capture the appearance of the vessel than to reconstruct it.
The easiest way to explain this is with an example.
These are the sketches of the Renommee’s ornaments,
and this is the actual structure of the ship.
I'm left with this
and this to merge
I would like to present you my latest project Le Brilliant 1690. Subject is challenging as original plans haven't survived till today. Fortunetly we have plans taken form
Tanneron's model in Musée de la Marine de Paris which is much better situation then Soleil Royal model. Another positive thing Brilliant model looks much less questionable and there's not a debate how much Tanneron changed in it in a way that can't fit historical period of ship. However, there are still some differences between the model and Berain's sketches which I intend to fill in.
I deliberately named this thread as a 3D project and not a model because I don't want to limit myself to just visualizations. Just like with Renommee, I want to create the whole ship, not just the decorations. This creates a much greater difficulty because there are no drawings of the weapons or equipment, let alone the planking.
After studying a large amount of materials and consultations, and especially thanks to @GuyM and @Hubac’s Historian who were patient in answering all my questions, I believe I will be able to fill in these gaps.
Moving on to the practical aspect of the project, I should point out something that affects the historical accuracy of the model being built. In the case of plans from the NMM or the Danish archives, ornamentation and decorations are often superimposed on the plans. In this case, for the reasons mentioned above, I am more inclined to capture the appearance of the vessel than to reconstruct it.
The easiest way to explain this is with an example.
These are the sketches of the Renommee’s ornaments,
and this is the actual structure of the ship.
I'm left with this
and this to merge
Without further ado, here’s what Brilliant looks like today. I hope this unique project will be interesting to others as well as to me. I’m also open to any feedback—if you spot any errors or inaccuracies, I’ll definitely try to fix them. To be honest, the hull still needs some work, but I needed a base from which to work on the stern
I did some adjustments on one of your pics showing the top part of the decor; I put in yellow what I found from the original drawing; there's a ''doubling of the top contour of the stern board carving (in orange), I also thinned out the ''spinnes'' on the right side (in orange) and, on the drawing there are ''sunrays'' which seem like being of an altering different textures....I put rays in orange, but I'm not sure whether it is in fact a wave type of carving ( doubtful) or that texture alternation to separate the sunrays ( most likely)....
