Sorry for the late reply guys!
EJFoeth wrote:
September the 8th at Maarten's place, just east of Hasselt.
Good location for me, but bad date. On sunday 9th, our club is organising the KMK Scaleworld show in Mol. But of course that's a place where all of you are very welcome too!
http://www.kmk-scaleworld.be/index.php@ Martocticvs and Maurice de saxe: The Turner sketches are indeed available, and Dafi already graciously pointed me to them. But I do remember reading about another name making sketches of the damaged ships too, but couldn't locate these yet.
wefalck wrote:
Well, it is a pity that such book is actually re-released. I understand that it is full of historical inaccuracies, as it is based on models observed in the Maritime Museum in Stockholm, without assessing critically their respective 'restoration' history. In another forum, we just had a discussion of this book with examples of rigging that are outright nonsense.
I have a copy of this book. In the introduction, the author states that he made it after one specific model, of Melampus, which is preserved in the Bristol Industrial Museum (not Stockholm, but the author is Swedish). He chose this model specifically because it is contemporary (probably commisioned by the builders) and thought not to have had much restauration to the rigging. He does however not discuss which parts of the rigging may have been restaured and which parts are certainly original. So it can have some mistakes in it indeed (like most books).
But many thanks for the heads-up; of course I wouldn't be using it's contents on it's own but always refer to Victory-specific sources too.
I have to say, it does have the merit of making rigging simple to understand for a newbie like me by breaking it down into simple elements though. I do feel like I learned a lot from it. But when modelling, I certainly will not use it without double-checking the details!
I'll look into the James Lee book too Martovics too.
For French ships, I bought the 4 volumes of Boudriot's 'the 74 gun ship', which I'm sure will provide at least a good basis.
Many thanks again everyone for the help!
Cheers,
Marijn