i asked if you needed other parts and now that i have sealed the envelope with your blocks, you need cannons. going downstairs to look for cannons and a bottle of Rum! might have to wait till Wednesday to ship your parts. Bye the way, one is male, and one is female. these days i cannot tell which is which.
shipped your skew of blocks and squeezed in three cannons in their carriages. hope you needed spar deck guns. i have been building this same model since the early nineties. my sister bought it for me as kind of a joke for Christmas because as a kid i always built car models and such. a few ships were there but limited. so once i had time i did the hull, masts, etc. and then it got put to dry dock for years. something about life that got in the way. and then something about death sparked a new life into her. drug her out, and that is the whole shebang. i have been pulling off old ugly plastic sails and handmaking new sails out of (wait for it) shortening filter sheets. i can pleat them and edge them and they are tough. i have also been re-doing stay lines because they have faltered.
done sent today with three spar deck cannons in carriages, if they survive. one skew of blocks with all sizes, if they survive the trip. and oh, by the way, still need the brisket secret recipe rub! happy modeling!
The lower deck (gun deck) inner gunwales are white except for the gun ports covers (which are black). The upper deck (spar deck) inner gunwales are green. Note that there is currently a green stripe at the bottom of the gun deck gunwale.
that's depressing.Ships change their appearance throughout their lifespan, especially after major refits intended to preserve them, update them, and enhance them. It's personal preference what phase of the ship you choose to build. For accuracy, what is important is that you select a date of the version of the ship you are building, and to put in the research to learn as much as you can about the features, modification, and appearance of the ship at the time of your choice. What can show the viewer of your model that you did that research is a statement on the nameplate below you model that says something to the effect of "USS Constitution as she appeared in 1812". Others who know the history of ships will recognize and respect that.
If you built USS Constitution as she was in 1925, your model would look like this. Less impressive than at other times.
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Of you could have built the Conny as it was in 1930 and save yourself all the rigging!
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It's the nature of the fate of things that go obsolete. Look at the Egyptian pyramids or the Roman Coliseum. They've looked better. Which items get thrown millions of Euros/Dollars/Rubles/whatever and heaps of human effort to preserve is impossible to predict, and time eventually eats everything. HMS Victory will probably never sail again due to hull frame damage from improper storage. All we can due is enjoy what was saved and appreciate it. Once that appreciation is lost, so is historical artefact. USS Constitution is one of the few pieces of history chosen for restoration several times, and is still full functional, although they don't actually place her under full sail on the open sea because it is deemed too risky, perhaps because there aren't enough sailors skilled enough to even man the ship at full crew levels. Wooden ships were risky by today's standards, and no replica vessel is even allowed to see water without many concessions to contain modern safety related upgrades, like motorized power, electrical lighting, anchor winches, life rafts, radios, and navigational equipment. Maritime law would never allow a 100% accurate square rigger to sail, and that is also depressing.
