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Hey folks. I'm Ross AKA P3nT4gR4m. I'm a digital artist and modeller (hope that's not a dirty word round here?) with a lifelong passion for the sea. I've been a kayaker all my life and only ever really admired tall ships as awesome looking things that I very occasionally meet on the water and gaze up at in wonderment. My ignorance is strong. Only recently learned that the poop deck isn't where the toilets were for example. Like really, really ignorant!
The reason I've joined this forum is because I'm currently modelling (digitally) a pirate ship. It's a passion project and I expect to take several months, maybe even the best part of a year to pull this off. If that sounds a ridiculously tall order, please bear in mind that, unlike physical modellers, I have an undo button if I mess anything up. I'm also not affected by things like gravity and the size of fiddly bits. Compared to handcrafting I'm able to cheat my way out of most corners.
So why join a forum full of physical modellers? Please believe me when I say that I'm not here to flaunt my godlike control of the laws of physics. My ship model, unlike your average digital one, is going to be a modelled inside and out and, as far as possible following real world design and structure. Every beam, every plank, every nail and stud. If you've seen Black Sails, for example, those ships were modelled by VFX industry legends but were mostly just hollow shells because that's all that was required for the camera shots. My ship is going to be more full-feature, inside and out.
The problem that arises here is the profound level of ignorance I mentioned at the start. I'm gradually learning how these amazing ships were constructed and operated, as I go but, as I'm sure you can imagine, information on the internet is kind of hard to come by, especially if, like myself, you have no idea what you're actually looking for. In this day and age not a lot of people are actually building these things for real (more's the pity) and there are no communities I can find. So I thought of modelling and the incredibly detailed model ships I've seen from time to time in maritime and transport museums.
I've seen some kits for sale that seem to scrimp on the inner structure, in favour of providing greater structural strength to the outer parts that you're actually going to see on the model presumably but I've also seen some cross section models that do show this structure in all it's glory. I'm guessing (hoping) that maybe some people actually do model the whole thing along authentic structural lines? Maybe there's a wealth of knowledge here that I can tap to learn what I need to learn to pull this project off?
I'd massively appreciate any pointers you guys can give me as to what I should read and/or who I should talk to. If anyone's interested I'll start a thread to document my progress but I'll totally understand if digital modelling is not your thing and I don't want to annoy anyone by doing so, so I'll leave it up to you. Let me know either way.
The reason I've joined this forum is because I'm currently modelling (digitally) a pirate ship. It's a passion project and I expect to take several months, maybe even the best part of a year to pull this off. If that sounds a ridiculously tall order, please bear in mind that, unlike physical modellers, I have an undo button if I mess anything up. I'm also not affected by things like gravity and the size of fiddly bits. Compared to handcrafting I'm able to cheat my way out of most corners.
So why join a forum full of physical modellers? Please believe me when I say that I'm not here to flaunt my godlike control of the laws of physics. My ship model, unlike your average digital one, is going to be a modelled inside and out and, as far as possible following real world design and structure. Every beam, every plank, every nail and stud. If you've seen Black Sails, for example, those ships were modelled by VFX industry legends but were mostly just hollow shells because that's all that was required for the camera shots. My ship is going to be more full-feature, inside and out.
The problem that arises here is the profound level of ignorance I mentioned at the start. I'm gradually learning how these amazing ships were constructed and operated, as I go but, as I'm sure you can imagine, information on the internet is kind of hard to come by, especially if, like myself, you have no idea what you're actually looking for. In this day and age not a lot of people are actually building these things for real (more's the pity) and there are no communities I can find. So I thought of modelling and the incredibly detailed model ships I've seen from time to time in maritime and transport museums.
I've seen some kits for sale that seem to scrimp on the inner structure, in favour of providing greater structural strength to the outer parts that you're actually going to see on the model presumably but I've also seen some cross section models that do show this structure in all it's glory. I'm guessing (hoping) that maybe some people actually do model the whole thing along authentic structural lines? Maybe there's a wealth of knowledge here that I can tap to learn what I need to learn to pull this project off?
I'd massively appreciate any pointers you guys can give me as to what I should read and/or who I should talk to. If anyone's interested I'll start a thread to document my progress but I'll totally understand if digital modelling is not your thing and I don't want to annoy anyone by doing so, so I'll leave it up to you. Let me know either way.