HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries

[RussF]

So, you use blender programming? Is that difficult? I will have to look that up and explore a little. The ladies' elbows look like droopy boobs.

Elbows? ...

 

[dnalley]

Are they not elbows? Are they boobs?

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Are they not elbows? Are they boobs?

Yes, they are. All ships could use more of those. If your model doesn't have at least two of them on the figurehead, it's incomplete. And blender is very difficult to learn from nothing, mostly because there are so many features that you cannot locate and learn the basic modeling functions easily.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Still working on the bracket decorations on the stern.

 

[Vfordyce]

Still working on the bracket decorations on the stern.
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I’m going to start calling this the “Horror Show Ship”! It looks like something out of a show about Nosferatu.

 

[RussF]

 

[Vfordyce]

I’m going to start calling this the “Horror Show Ship”! It looks like something out of a show about Nosferatu.

You’re doing a great job. Those figures are just grotesque.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

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Indeed ! There are limitations on what free models are available online for conversion into decorations by sculpting and modification. However, that approach is required because I am not a gifted sculpter even in 3-D modelling. One does what one can, which what one has. This is one of the many challenges of building HMS Sovereign of the Seas.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

You’re doing a great job. Those figures are just grotesque.

It is hard to discern the details in what the groteque faces are from the Lely painting. I've been looking for gargoyles, goblins, masques, mascarons, and other objects online that resemble the faces on the Sovereign but haven't found any close matches.

 

[Vfordyce]

Indeed ! There are limitations on what free models are available online for conversion into decorations by sculpting and modification. However, that approach is required because I am not a gifted sculpter even in 3-D modelling. One does what one can, which what one has. This is one of the many challenges of building HMS Sovereign of the Seas.

I wasn’t criticizing, Kurt. I thought that was the way they’re supposed to look.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

I wasn’t criticizing, Kurt. I thought that was the way they’re supposed to look.

I know Vic! You are right, they do actually resemble the nosferatu. Frankly, I wish the faces on the original ship looked better than they do. If you guys have even some images of grotesque faces that resemble those on the Sovereign, post them or send them to me. I can convert certain photos into 3-D bas relief objects, especially if the pictures are take straight on, and not at oblique angles, such as those I used below.