"Modelling the English Fleet 'in ordinary' 1667 at 1/2400" Topic

I am back down on the Medway with a chunky blog post about modelling the caputal ships of the English Fleet in 1/2400 during the Medway Campaign of 1667.

Lots of painting and conversion work here:

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There are 24 pictures on the main blog post plus some detail about how the conversions were achieved.

Some shots of the major and minor surgery here:

Very cool. An idea I have never thought about, much less seen before. My understanding is some of the English ships were intentionally sunk as the Dutch approached, so as to keep them out of Dutch hands.

One of my favorite periods, though I do it in 1/1200.

These are ships in photos 3 and 4 above – flooded to the level of the lower gun decks. That is why they are sitting askew in the water – they are bottomed.

Cool! I keep wondering how you do it hahaha

Gotcha. My impression though was some were totally submerged to prevent their being burned. That does not in any way detract from the coolness of what you are doing though.

Virtualscratchbuilder you are correct. Some ships were sunk deliberately to prevent capture or damage or to block channels. The particular three vessels at the centre of the climactic moment – HMS Royal Oak, HMS Royal James and HMS Loyal London were partially sunk in a channel no deeper than about 17 feet(average). This meant those vessels were partially submerged. They were moored just downstream of the Chatham Dockyard upriver of Upnor.