HMS Royal George 3D model

[dongaii]

Hello there,

I'm not sure, this is the best place for my search, but i found this forum amazing, and what you guys are doing here, is really amazed me. Probably, i will be intrested in physical ship modelling, but currently i'm really intrested in digital 3D modelling. So i'm a 3D artist, who makes realistic, fully detailed airplane models, for Microsoft Flight Simulator, and other, pilot training softwares, virtual simulators for living..

The reason i made this thread, because i felt like you can help me out about collecting references, insights, how you find, collect images, plans about ships for your projects. And maybe, and this is what i hope for, is there someone who build this ship and happy to share info with me, photos about it?

This would be my hobby project, and im not really sure what i do the 3D model for, but i don't know, i feel like i would do a ship now.

Really looking forward your help!
dongaii

 

[Y.T.]

Hi. You can try going through my HMS Victory building log. Link is below in my signature. Vicki’s one of most documented ships in existence today. To my opinion if one learns it they know close to all about ships of sails.

 

[icecreamviking]

For the Royal george specifically, luckily the Greenwhich Museum in England has the original plans and you can buy a hi-res scan of them for not too bad a price. theres also an exceptional model of the ship. there are numerous photographs online and some extremely useful videos, like this one

I've been building a 3d model of L'Hermione for about 8 or so months. If you'd like to talk shop about modeling in 3d, I'd enjoy that a great deal.

I chose that ship in particular because a functioning replica was built not at all long ago, and so it is among the most thoroughly documented sailing ships of its size and type around. I've had the benefit of dozens of hours of video shot aboard the ship, and hundreds of thousands of photographs.

as Y.T pointed out, the Victory is also a superb candidate for the same reason. She's been repaired consistently since her creation and you can find video and photographic reference of her every aspect. Theres also this superb video that analyzes her workings in general terms and is a good reference for ships of the 18th century

as for plans, A.N.C.R.E is a great French publisher that sells monographs (detailed studies of single ships, including plans) and general treatises on sailing ships...with the caveat that it focuses on French ships (however, there is an enormous amount of overlap between the technology of various nations. ships were taken as prizes and recycled by various navies, and later sold on to other nations)

the plans of a ship will typically give you enough information to build the hill and masts, and good ones will include a sail diagram...but the details of the rigging are often either selectively included only for the sake of building a physical scale model, or omitted entirely....for those details I can recommend two specific sources

the 4 pt book series "The Seventy Four Gun Ship" by Jean Boudriot is probably the most useful general resource I own, it's incredibly detailed.

I'd also recommend the book "Rigging Period Ship Models: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Intricacies of Square-Rig" by Lennarth Pedersson,