The Ship Model Forum

Redoubable is my favourite warship ever? Courbet, Devastation, Colbert... all are amazing too.
So this is a lovely model to see, especially the colors and so on. I cant help but notice the green antifouling paint. Very beautiful. Never seen it, great find, thanks!

I am now at a phase where I have to decide how to weather the copper bottom in a beautiful manner. Already asked Marijn about it, he felt green above, dark copper below is most logical if we build a ship thats plucked out of water and not just sitting in dry dock being repaired (then it would be all pretty green).

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I have started to play a bit with the hull weathering.

As for the deck, this is probably v 0.9 as my next one will be from paper and CA glue for the blast shields or whatever those awnings are. Im not sure on color, or if they are wooden decked. Paintings imply wood, so probably thats why I picked wood.

Coppper hull should be greener, I plan to do another pass with oils to see what result I get. Im going for a bit fowled hull here, experimenting.

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Now that's an interesting subject!
I'm following!

So the deck mystery is finally getting less and less mysterious.
With kind help of @Haze_Grey_History I now have images that show Turenne's deck in more detail with crew shots and everything. These are wonderful, and give much more insight into how those upper decks around guns looked like.

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I fired up the good old light box and took some shots on one of my temporary bases of where I am at the moment. I do this sometimes because I want to know how the model looks overall - does it feel right.

Here is the result. I can tell colors need to be lighter, deck awnings will be changed (have since based on evidence but they were still unpainted, and these are so..). I thinkthe correct color is actually grey, as steel decks were.

Masts I see need to be thicker certaintly, as they were not steel but wooden. So I need to use something thicker, but also / not sure about the taper. Are they always tapering, or they are all straight just thinner as you go up...

Im also pretty sure I have to rebuild the main fighting platform superstructure and figure out / improvise some of the way it sits there. Plans show it is triangular, and pictures arent clear. I think they expanded it down the road, added sand bags to protect it, further obscuring it from view, and there is at some point an awing on the top that gives a for sure square appearance.. There are ladders up front and then there are not later. I think I will go for triangular version as its appearance checks out. I also am doing an early version of the ship, and as I lack data on small gun placements (Hotchkiss?) doing an early naked version seems most reasonable. But that is for later.

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