Hello Marijn,
no, thoses slices will just be the hull
Need to go back to the big model too.
But ok, it is time to really start the Trafalgar slice.
One remembers: Te ship was recommissioned in March 1803. Possibly with the yellow and black lines, no checker yet. If ever or if when this one was applied, I found no contemporary sources. It might well be that the checker was only a post Trafalgar feature.
The ship hastily sailed into the Mediterranean Sea where it stayed over winter. In April 1805 it starte it famous cruise to Sicily, Gibraltar, Caribbean Sea and back, chasing Villeneuve. On the return in August the hull was painted while being still on sea. End of August, It entered a refit in Spithead, start of September plenty of paint was delivered, a week later they were out on sea again. Possibly plenty of paint jobs were still ongoing at this moment.
The stress of the voyage and the very stressful and time squeezed refit make me think, that the lovely lady possibly already looked a tad shaken already before the battle on 21.10.1805. Especially I imagine plenty on competing touches of paint ...
Turners drawings show clearly the build up forecastle with its gun ports. Not to be seen the timber-heads, shown in most contemporary drawings and models. So I adapted those. Not to forget, the drawings show the ship after hasty repairs at Gibraltar, perhaps those were omitted in the reconstruction of this heavily damaged area.
For the positioning of the yellow strakes I go closely with Maik´s wonderful analysis of Turners drawings.
https://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t ... suche.htmlFirst fitted the chain boards with lines of Apoxy Sculpt, my favorite way of doing things like that.
Then searching for the color split lines with markings on tape ...
... and a first layer of yellow ochre. Not the real final shade yet, only to find the proportions.
XXXDAn
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