"Trafalgar diorama." Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 May 2020 10:11 p.m. PST |
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| Blutarski | 28 May 2020 5:00 a.m. PST |
Outstanding diorama, without question.
As a matter of interest, at 1:56 scale, those ships are each about four feet in length. What rules do you suppose they use to play? ;-) B |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 28 May 2020 5:11 a.m. PST |
Cool. The ships themselves are wonderful, but the diorama shows a lot of landlubber mistakes. Primarily, the ships' flags would never be trailing behind a moving sailing ship, but rather would be blown in the direction of the wind. Similarly, the attitude of the sails on the various ships are all abeam whereas they should all be cranked so as to catch the wind. In this diorama, no matter which way you envision the wind, some of these ships would be unable (or barely able) to sail due to the attitude of their sails. Lastly, I am not sure ships would set top gallants in battle. That aside, pretty cool. |
| Timmo uk | 28 May 2020 5:42 a.m. PST |
And if the British three decker is supposed to be Victory they've painted her the wrong colour. Awesome all the same. |
| Tango01 | 28 May 2020 11:49 a.m. PST |
Instead of the mistakes… glad you like it boys!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Blutarski | 28 May 2020 1:18 p.m. PST |
When going into battle, topgallants (and even royals) would have remained set under the sort of extremely light wind conditions that prevailed at Trafalgar. HMS Victory even had studding sails set during her approach. B |
| Acronim | 28 May 2020 2:04 p.m. PST |
It is absolutely stunning. It is true that when modelers, model makers and wargammers have a different point of view about miniaturization. I think that for the author it would have been unforgivable to put some falsely inflated sails, so they could not have been made on fabric like the real sails. I found a blog with a lot of details of the decks. There is also the list of represented ships; it is the attack on the Santísima Trinidad, there is no Victory ship. blog.model-space.es/barcos/magnifico-diorama-del-santisima-trinidad-en-la-batalla-de-trafalgar |
| Tango01 | 29 May 2020 3:23 p.m. PST |
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| nugrim | 01 Jun 2020 12:55 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 01 Jun 2020 9:31 p.m. PST |
As we are… (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| 4DJones | 03 Jun 2020 12:50 p.m. PST |
… And it looks like there is even less wind than there was at Trafalgar? |
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