L'Orenoque Mamoli 1:100 scale

The Gavel said:
Collecting images of French sidewheelers - here's one. Feel free to supplement! I'm particularly interested in the correct colors, etc - I am looking to build her in a Crimean War livery and armament if possible.

And I can't believe it's this late!!! 'Til next time, shipmates!

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I also like this crossover period in shipbuilding.This is Le Sphinx . She was first in a series of twenty corvettes built on the same plan. I have an ancient (1961) french kit of her sister "La Veloce" that i will be bashing into this ship. A real antique novelty, the kit is mostly card, a solid carved waterline hull and lead wire, at about 1/200.I prefer to build the Sphinx as she has the unusual history of being the ship that towed the barge ship "Louxsor" transporting Cleopatra's needle from Egypt to Paris. I have also started a scratch build of L'Aigle, 1859, Napoleons imperial yacht, another sidewheeler with an offcentered mechanism which corrects the angle of the blades as they rotate into the water, i may have bitten off more than i can chew there ! I will have to get round to learning photoetching for that. All this because i saw L'Orenoque and fell in love, haha ! here's a period painting of L'Aigle for your collectionoffici14949.jpg
 
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Now i have read all of your posts, i thought you might be interested by the hull design on the Sphinx, which is really quite unusual. This is 1830 and was fitted with an English steam engine. Here's my waterline kitbash version, and a model from the french maritime museum which also shows it rather wellM5026-2005-DE-201-4.jpg

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