FASTUEUX 1669 a coffee cup becoming a barock ship's caricature

[Iterum]

Dear friends -

this an experiment, an old idea that reignited today, when I entered a helping hand shop and left with this cheap coffee cup:

This cup does have everything I will need to change her in a baroque French multi-decker of the primeure rank superextraordineur. The name FASTUEUX enphasized the magnificent splendor and was (as far as I recherched) never used in history - so well it does fit the sun king's very special personality.

I will certainly "borrow" some ideas from @Hubac’s Historian and @Ab Hoving ...

In this project it is more to have fun and get something like handcrafting exercises and testing different material mixes - so this ship is a kind of caricature in pottery and a plenty of different ideas. So I will have to start with sanding the surface to get some grip onto it for my next nonsense to be added like (five or six?) layers of gundecks - and the opulent transom with sideparts and an attack on baroque decor even Pierre Puget would get affraid of as much too dizzy and giddy:

A typical south-german baroque rostrum (location to be figured out) with an overkill of putty and so on...

The cup will need some more wight inside to stand upright - time for sand and PVA!

So let's start something funny for some days!


Best wishes from the Berlin Card Yard,

Chris

 

[Pepite 1/60]

What a pity April fools day is already over , again. Good idea, though.

 

[Iterum]

Some 6° grit for the side view:

 

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Some 6° grit for the side view:

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[kuba91nt]

So it wasn't an April 1st joke?

 

[Iterum]

So it wasn't an April 1st joke?

No it wasn't - it is really a caricature and testing project for bulding the transome's freestanding sculputres, here behind MEERMIN's spine and bulkheads:

The grit is 30mms/25mms so I now have got the Basic shape of my pot:

 

[Iterum]

Today the shape was taken onto the drawing:

So the work with the transom can start, when the decks bow ins added to the lines. on the portside there are several first attempts for an outlining set.
And here some details taken from ROYAL LOUIS 1667:

Neptune with his Trident above a Putto der ing fruits below a Triton.


Here a very nice seahorse and a wreath line.


One of the gigant sized lamps with a Renommée.
There will come a lot more sculptures like this figure arrangement by Pierre Puget:


Here are a plenty of possibilities hidden in:


So I certainly do look onto Marc's beautyfull and clever solutions, too.

Best wishes from Berlin Card Yard,
Chris

 

[Iterum]

Today I do deal with the architecturial side of the construction by working with Jan Pieper's


impressiv work "The baroque ship's stern as an architecturial Prospekt" there are several intersting instructions in classical castle design:

and the result in real:

And the construction in any shipyards to get a fitting result to the curved structure the architecturial build had had to fit onto:

Here the result with the side part:


And me? There are six gundecks to fit and I do think about three decks added aft... Still in the thinking prosess.

 

[Bill-R]

Hello Chris,

This looks to be a great project. I will be definitely following along.

Bill

 

[Iterum]

Thank you very much Bill - it is no procastination as it is a slow moving side project - getting the mast(s?) and yards from an old plastic model kit.

Let's have some fun...