Dear Mark! Don't be charmed by beautiful words. This model has a huge pile of errors. I don't have eight months, but even from the first minutes I found a lot of historical and technical blunders. Most of the errors, oddly enough, are standard and have long been studied. For example, literally on the last page we looked at the correct gun port covers. On this model, the roofs are historically and technically incorrect. There is something stupid about this: there are two hinges on the covers, and one eyebolt for the rope that closes the cover. The eyebolts were on the hinges, there were two of them. Everyone knows this. There are other well-known bloopers: oars on boats are always placed with the blades forward, the insides of boats are always red in the 1780-90s. Never was the cargo davit on a launch placed together with the rudder - it is technically impossible. It would have been better if the author of the model had read the books by Lavery and Goodwin about English shipbuilding during these eight months. He writes that specialists helped him with photographs of drawings and models from Greenwich, but these documents do not and could not contain everything that is shown on the model. Incorrect top timbers, aft forecastle railing, forward quarterdeck railing. Allan asked where the pins on the aft railing came from - and he is right, because there were no pins there. Allan and I have already shown photos of drawings and models in your topic - it is clearly visible that everything is wrong. But the curators sent the author of the model exactly the same photos (you can see them on the walls of the workshop). The author of the model ignored them. Dear Mark! Do not ignore the photos that Allan and I sent you. Another example: in the ship's drawings, the bellfry is shown with two posts, but the modeler made it with four. The author believes that the ship did not have time to receive the new type of paint, but then why is its upper chanel-wales painted black? With such a paint scheme, black chanel-wales is basically impossible - it is the enemy's paint! (French). The copper plating is not period correct, and the rudder hinges placed on top of the copper plating are technical nonsense. This has been discussed a hundred times.
I'm on vacation now, no time, but if you send me more photos, I'll sign each mistake in them later (if you want, of course). I encourage other readers to take part in the "find the mistake" game!
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