Just before leaving town for a couple of months, I had noticed all the head-carving on the actual ship had been removed. I assumed it was to get it out of the way while they were rebuilding the head, but I happened on something about how a 3D scan of the
Macedonian figurehead was used to make a wood reproduction to replace the endangered original on it's pedestal at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and wondered if the
Constellation folks were going that route.
With the idea of getting a copy of the scans for myself, I contacted Historic Ships Baltimore, but they acted like they knew nothing about it, so I looked elsewhere.
The company that scanned the
Macedonian figurehead offered to print a 2 inch tall 3D model of it for an insane amount of money years ago, and they have a view only version of this file on
SketchFab.
On the screen were "related items" one of which was a
Billet Head that looked very familiar, and a little digging turned up scans of
"Constellation-Filegree".
There's no contact for these people shown, so I took the best screenshots of the items I could manage.
these images I ran through SCULPTOK to generate STLs from them as "height-maps."
- trailboard screen-cap
- billet-head screen-cap
I loaded the resulting STL into Blender to reduce the faces down to something manageable using the decimate feature, and save it as an ,OBJ file. I'm having a difficult time learning Blender so I loaded the OBJ into Anim8or (software I know how to use) where I can clean-up and adjust the model to fit my model of Constellation.
- STL from Sculptok
- working on it in Anim8or
- cleaning it up in Anim8or
