Greetings and salutations!
Hope you're all well. So I'm new here (obviously), and new to model ship building. Not really even sure if that's what you'd call what I'm doing, but it seems close enough for me, hopefully it'll work for you lot as well.
So here's the scoop: I'm a 3D printing kind of individual, and recently, one of the STL providers I subscribe to put out an STL of a square rigger I can't rightly place, it's like a Sixth-Ranked Sloop of War crossed with a Galley? It's decidedly odd. 12 guns, mostly on one deck (two are on another, but that's probably just stylized, it **is** a fantasy line of STLs, after all), with a decidedly Golden Age of Sail aftcastle.
Anyway, they've designed it to have 3D printed sails, and mostly printed rigging (and honestly mostly *no* rigging, if we're being completely candid about things). This doesn't work for me. At all. I'm not OK with that. It's a beautiful model. Absolutely gorgeous piece of kit.
Right, so. On to why I'm here, and what my goal is. First off, if there's any sort of identification to what kind of ship that actually IS, that'd be amazing. My knowledge of sailing vessels isn't as great as it once was (sadly I took a TBI when I was a bit younger, and I just... I can't brain as good as I once did). SECONDLY, that's scaled for 32mm D&D style minifigs, and I plan on fully rigging it as close to realistic as possible after I finish printing it (which will take quite some time--it's over 2 feet long, weighs a ton, and is just bloody massive--and I won't actually be able to START the print until tomorrow when the filament comes in).
I will of course be making threads in the relevant subforums if/when I'm stumped on where/what to do. But yeah, that's the goal, strip off those fake plastic printed sails and all the icky printed rigging, and actually give it some proper realistic standing and running rigging with blocks and twine.
It's quite the undertaking, but once I have it printed and painted, I think it'll be worth the effort. Plus, I mean, yeah, sure, it may not be super realistic (or maybe it is, I unno), but it's a damn pretty model!
So yeah, that's why I'm here. I was given STLs for a ship, I'm super unhappy with the way **they've** done it, and I want to **identify** and **rig** it. Figured here was the best place to figure both of those things out.
Anything else you lot want to know, feel free to ask. My life's a semi-opened book. Some pertinent facts: I'm neurodivergent (ADHD and Autism among others, bear with me if I'm not getting it or if I'm just... kind of out there), did some time **actually** sailing back when I was younger, grew up in the Sahara, married, have a kid, love music (own more'n 2 dozen stringed instruments, play drums in the style of Keith Moon, write and record my own stuff from time to time), D&D, dark fantasy and sci-fi. Love the ocean, everything about it.
So that's me! Picture of the render of the ship I'll be printing attacked. It's called the "Lady Harpy," iff'n the attached image isn't enough to go by, Google has loads of stuff, and I think there's even a video of the people who made the STL printing it and painting it, if that's more your speed.
Hope you're all well. So I'm new here (obviously), and new to model ship building. Not really even sure if that's what you'd call what I'm doing, but it seems close enough for me, hopefully it'll work for you lot as well.
So here's the scoop: I'm a 3D printing kind of individual, and recently, one of the STL providers I subscribe to put out an STL of a square rigger I can't rightly place, it's like a Sixth-Ranked Sloop of War crossed with a Galley? It's decidedly odd. 12 guns, mostly on one deck (two are on another, but that's probably just stylized, it **is** a fantasy line of STLs, after all), with a decidedly Golden Age of Sail aftcastle.
Anyway, they've designed it to have 3D printed sails, and mostly printed rigging (and honestly mostly *no* rigging, if we're being completely candid about things). This doesn't work for me. At all. I'm not OK with that. It's a beautiful model. Absolutely gorgeous piece of kit.
Right, so. On to why I'm here, and what my goal is. First off, if there's any sort of identification to what kind of ship that actually IS, that'd be amazing. My knowledge of sailing vessels isn't as great as it once was (sadly I took a TBI when I was a bit younger, and I just... I can't brain as good as I once did). SECONDLY, that's scaled for 32mm D&D style minifigs, and I plan on fully rigging it as close to realistic as possible after I finish printing it (which will take quite some time--it's over 2 feet long, weighs a ton, and is just bloody massive--and I won't actually be able to START the print until tomorrow when the filament comes in).
I will of course be making threads in the relevant subforums if/when I'm stumped on where/what to do. But yeah, that's the goal, strip off those fake plastic printed sails and all the icky printed rigging, and actually give it some proper realistic standing and running rigging with blocks and twine.
It's quite the undertaking, but once I have it printed and painted, I think it'll be worth the effort. Plus, I mean, yeah, sure, it may not be super realistic (or maybe it is, I unno), but it's a damn pretty model!
So yeah, that's why I'm here. I was given STLs for a ship, I'm super unhappy with the way **they've** done it, and I want to **identify** and **rig** it. Figured here was the best place to figure both of those things out.
Anything else you lot want to know, feel free to ask. My life's a semi-opened book. Some pertinent facts: I'm neurodivergent (ADHD and Autism among others, bear with me if I'm not getting it or if I'm just... kind of out there), did some time **actually** sailing back when I was younger, grew up in the Sahara, married, have a kid, love music (own more'n 2 dozen stringed instruments, play drums in the style of Keith Moon, write and record my own stuff from time to time), D&D, dark fantasy and sci-fi. Love the ocean, everything about it.
So that's me! Picture of the render of the ship I'll be printing attacked. It's called the "Lady Harpy," iff'n the attached image isn't enough to go by, Google has loads of stuff, and I think there's even a video of the people who made the STL printing it and painting it, if that's more your speed.
