New design POF HMS Blandford 1720 in scale 1:48 by Modelship Dockyard

Modelship Dockyard

Modelship Dockyard

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Hi folks, It’s Model shipyard here again.

My last thread for “Le cygne” was just like few days ago, how time flies LOL(well just in case you don’t know, i did just post that thread few days ago, just a joke, avaliable here:https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/le-cygne-1806-in-scale-1-48-by-modelship-dockyard.7971).

In the Cygne post a lot folks showed interests to the “Blandford”, so let me do a small introduction of this product. We started this project about 5 years ago, and finished designing 10 month later, more designing details will come later in the thread. Due to our production ability at the time, we didn’t produce much, only 20 for the first batch. We sold two versions of the Blandford, Pear and Cherry. Sadly, after the first batch was sold, we stopped the production of all our products due to some personal reasons. From the start of this year, we started to have thoughts on “reviving” Blandford, so as we now have such a good opportunity, I think it’s time.
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We did use “The Anatomy” , “English Man of War 1650-1850” and “The Arming and Fitting” etc as reference book during the designing process. Mainly based on the NMM plan, and we are now getting the licence.

Simplified ribs. Note that the ribs of the kit is not like this, it's just a demonstration:
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The carvings, ill use the head figure as an example to show how we design them, this process is the same for all our ships. We first collect information for the ship’s carvings, from books, models etc. For this head figure, we know that it’s a lion so we collected some pictures of real ship lion head figures:
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Then we find a painter&designer(we’ve changed our painter just few days ago, to a Post-graduate student of the famous UAL-CSM), and draw the head figures using photos, this is what we get:
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We then do the 3D modeling, and end up with this:
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Then using the 4 axis CNC, to get the final Box/Pear wood carvings:
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All carvings in 3D:
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And in real world:
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Note that this was our design level 5 years ago.
 
So where do we buy this model? Price? Availability? Thanks for letting us know. Have a nice evening in China!

Reg
 
Modelship Dockyard said:
The carvings, ill use the head figure as an example to show how we design them, this process is the same for all our ships. We first collect information for the ship’s carvings, from books, models etc. For this head figure, we know that it’s a lion so we collected some pictures of real ship lion head figures:
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Then we find a painter&designer(we’ve changed our painter just few days ago, to a Post-graduate student of the famous UAL-CSM), and draw the head figures using photos, this is what we get:
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We then do the 3D modeling, and end up with this:
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Then using the 4 axis CNC, to get the final Box/Pear wood carvings:
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All carvings in 3D:
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And in real world:
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Note that this was our design level 5 years ago.
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Your decorations and lion is looking very good - very good work.
Maybe the following topic about the changes of the british lions during the time (made by my friend and decoration specialist Willi alias @schifferlbauer ) is of some interest for you and your designer.... There are some small and fine differences in the lions over the years

English lion figureheads

Lions was the most common figureheads on english ships of the line in the 17th. and also in the 18th. Century, for the first thirty Years. Past 1677 by Admirality Order, all ships must have a lion figurehead and only ships of the first rate was allowed to show a different one. For all the want...
shipsofscale.com
 
What are the lengths of both "Le Cygne" and "Blandford"? In inches or in millimeters as you wish.

Thanks!

:)
 
Uwek said:
Your decorations and lion is looking very good - very good work.
Maybe the following topic about the changes of the british lions during the time (made by my friend and decoration specialist Willi alias @schifferlbauer ) is of some interest for you and your designer.... There are some small and fine differences in the lions over the years

English lion figureheads

Lions was the most common figureheads on english ships of the line in the 17th. and also in the 18th. Century, for the first thirty Years. Past 1677 by Admirality Order, all ships must have a lion figurehead and only ships of the first rate was allowed to show a different one. For all the want...
shipsofscale.com
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wow thanks Uwek, very useful information, wish we saw these five years ago so that we could save a lot of time
 
I would like to show you guys our last pilot model, however, we lot almost all the photo that shot during the testing period, and we gave the ship away, so the only thing that I can do now is to show a player's model. We also made some new changes in the past few days, such as more sophisticated ribs and pre-made deck, and we will 100% start a new pliot model soon, to test these changes and give you guys a better view.
Open box:
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