To victory and beyond ...

[dafi]

So ...

When the side gallery was in place, it didn't seem gloomy enough. An anxious look, and sure enough, the white balusters that I had been looking forward to so much just weren't there. Crap. And painting over it looked like crap. I'm sorry, but it did.

Like dafi does what dafi does best: Destruction!

So I broke out the white balusters and put in new black ones. Now the eyeliner is still missing in the broad white profiles and then it could work. It's only an approximation anyway, as otherwise the side galleries would have to be completely rebuilt. At that time, the curves were less pronounced and the whole structure was more angular. But I can't reconstruct it much better with the documents I have so far. Maybe later on, new sources might turn up.

And since I was just tinkering around, I added the chutes for the signal cannons. Probably so that powder and cartridge residues don't stick to the ship's side.

XXXDAn

 

[dafi]

Just realized that I missed one entry. Here it is

So I went over the stovepipe outlet cover plate underneath the fore chains. First it was reduced in size according to the source. On closer inspection of the photpgraph, I noticed that the support block could also be a brick. Since the entire shipyard is made of red brick, I took the opportunity to color it.

Here is my comparison picture again. The shoe for the anchor is still far too small, but the rest is slowly coming along

Even more distinct without color.

As the picture is from 1920 and the state I am showing is 10 years before I do not know yet how much of the rot I will show.

XXXDAn

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Sad to see a good ship sit and rot, but yours will not be so bad, so a good ship.

 

[europapete]

Great detail Dan, and well done for spotting that. I agree, difficult to tell from a b&w photo if it's a brick or a block of wood. I vote brick, just to add a splash of colour! lol.
I also noticed you modelled the window closed whereas the photo shows it cracked open. Tsk, Tsk. lololol.