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Author: | Story [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:59 pm ] |
Post subject: | 1/192nd scale whaler PEQUOD |
Not so long ago I tripped over a new card game pitting literature's most reknowned whaling Captain against the great creatures of the sea. Quote: Leviathan is an asymmetrical 2-player "micro" game, which offers a dynamic tactical battle at sea with a mere 18-card deck. The cards themselves are the "playing pieces," and movement is measured out in real space on any flat surface. https://www.pastgo.net/leviathan"Hmm, sez I" peering into the glowing screen "A good excuse to cobble up a fitting representation in three dimensions". What better way to complete an ancient kit than to fit it to an ancient tale? We'll start with this... ... and end up with a waterline version of this, suitable for the rigors of table-top gaming (and hopefully looking like something crafty created during a long voyage). I know it's normally considered a 1/200th scale rendering, but in deference to you Civil War naval modelers I thought this thread might inspire some side-show builds to go along with your Confederate raiders or Federal blockaders. Stone Fleet, anyone? |
Author: | Story [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd whaler PEQUOD |
Sourcing kits from places like Ebay is a Proverbial pig-in-a-poke. In our case, I got this The first step was to scrape off all of the glue (probably Elmer's white) that was used in the original attempt and then water-line the hull. That lower hull got tossed in the spares box for some future whittling. |
Author: | Story [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd whaler PEQUOD |
Tangentially, one of the goals of this build is that we're not spending a lot of time on it. That said, one blogger made the following observations about the Pyro kit. Then there is the whaler "Charles W. Morgan". This model is close to 1/200 scale, and is fairly accurate, if one considers that the ship had been improperly restored, and it is that the kit is based upon; it is full rigged, whereas the ship was originally, operationally, a barque. Some minor hull issues and those "gunports", but it can build up very nicely right out of the box.. Interesting. Let's check the real Charles W Morgan out. The Charles W. Morgan is the last of an American whaling fleet that numbered more than 2,700 vessels. Built and launched in 1841, the Morgan is now America’s oldest commercial ship still afloat – only the USS Constitution is older. Hmm.... Do I really want to monkey around changing over her rigging? |
Author: | JIM BAUMANN [ Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:05 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd scale whaler PEQUOD |
well now! --that seems an interesting project-- and educational..! 2 700 whaling ships-- amazing and shocking at the same time ! I am intrigued as to future progress Jim B |
Author: | Story [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd scale whaler PEQUOD |
More background, more modeling inspiration. Melville drew his inspiration from the tale of the Essex (the originally diary recounted in the book IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, which Ron Howard turned into a movie). The author, Nathaniel Philbrick, offers an excellent running narrative of the industry in Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 180957198/ For those of you who love your full hull models, that style could work with this game as well. From an NPS exhibit long over. This fellow carved his hull from the same chunk of tree that became the Morgan's new bowsprit. https://www.charleswmorganmodel.com/mor ... tures.html His narrative https://www.charleswmorganmodel.com/about.html What I'll be aiming for is a folk art look, similar to this - |
Author: | DrPR [ Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:00 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd scale whaler PEQUOD |
If you want some more inspiration find the 1950s movie "Moby Dick" starring Gregory Peck. It was filmed on a working square rigged ship named "Moby Dick." Some of the filming was in Madiera with a real whaling fleet. It has a lot of beautiful footage of the ship and actual whaling action. Phil |
Author: | Story [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 4:40 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: 1/192nd scale whaler PEQUOD |
DrPR wrote: If you want some more inspiration find the 1950s movie "Moby Dick" starring Gregory Peck. It was filmed on a working square rigged ship named "Moby Dick." Some of the filming was in Madiera with a real whaling fleet. It has a lot of beautiful footage of the ship and actual whaling action. This thread needs a soundtrack, at the very least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmtyFzBMdZI I am not spending a lot of time on this. I am not spending a lot of time on this. In related news... Quote: The captain allegedly taught his sailors to sing ancient coastal fishing songs "while directing his Fire Control Center to unleash a pair of RUM-139 VL-ASROC anti-submarine missiles into a pod of sperm whales,” according to a U.S. Navy investigator.
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