One should not get too tricked by the glazing of the museum ships, replicas or models, even contemporary ones.
As the french side is quite well documented with Boudriot and contemporary models, the english is still a mystery to me. In the models and contemporary sources the look like crystal palace, quite suspect to me, as one freak wave would give a nice mash up. Especially like Goodwin describes the blinds - build like traditional englisch windows with counter weihts - have the glazing to be on the outside.
Steel describes mock windows for the englisch navy, but does neither precise for which size of ship it is to be applied neither for which windows: Be the stern windows of the side galleries, be the fore or aft window of the side gallery or even like with the french ans spaniards even part of the middle window ...
The interpretation of Achilles´Queen Charlotte show a well researched version:
https://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t200f141-HMS-Queen-Charlotte-6.html#msg9223With englisch models complete glazing is the standard, but this could be modeling convenance to give the models more snack appeal for the ones that allow the budgets, the same applied for the nice frieze paintings.
The painting of Monamy Swaine shows an interesting detail: It appears that only the middle windows of the side gallery show reflection of glass ...
Also the drawing of Livesay gives the intention that the outer stern windows are mock as they are shown darker then the other windows.
This gave some room for trials on the stern of my Vic, note the different versions of the mock windows.
The other thing is the transparency of the glazing. Traditionally the windows are shown clear, as many contemporary models do. But some models show mica, as apparently many ships used too, especially for the lantern, as for anti-breakability with shock and temperature changes (flames/heat and water). In the days of the Victory the glazing used to be ground glass. How clear the transparency this was is still my question. There are clear panes mixed with translucent ones. Which to put where? Also, samples of the panes have different colors, not just clear. Or is the blurred surface of the translucent panes only a side effect of the long time being buried in the seabed or a chemical interaction with the salt water? To be compared with pieces of modern glas after a short time in surf and sand?
Luckily there is a good source: the wreck from HMS Pandora gave away some spare panes:
https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+abou ... MS+PandoraHere the broad arrow to be seen nicely, indicating that it is King´s property
So, now I leave you alone to make your own conclusions
All the best, Daniel
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