Abandoned "North Star" Armed Whaler

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

About
The "North Star" is a 19th Century Armed Whaler.
She has more guns than most armed whalers, and has an excellent speed and cargo capacity. She is beautifully decorated, with an ornate and luxurious great cabin.
She has a modest crew capacity of 165, and a decent average turn rate of 62.
She is around the size of the USS Constitution, and is colored black, blue/green and gold.
Planned Features
None as of yet, progress just started.​

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

New progress, she has 2 white stripes across her sides now, and the textures are mostly done.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

Now I am filling in the gunports on the gundeck, as to make it more of a whaler.
And I (somehow/someway) broke my tooth while eating Pizza Pops...

 

[The Nameless Pirate]

So you've found what to with the USS Constitution? Nice!
Sorry about your tooth.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

Gunports filled in, I still need to fix their textures and trim any remaining parts on them.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

So you've found what to with the USS Constitution? Nice!
Sorry about your tooth.

Thanks for the sorry, and yeah, I've found what to do with the RN_BattleFrigate with no gun-deck. And the Whaler suits a no gundeck Constitution, since it would fit the shape and profile of one as well. Just take a look at the Charles W. Morgan!

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

I have filled them in for the most part, but it's not smooth enough. It's too edgy like this, so I'll need to smooth it back to normal.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

There, I've mostly smoothed them out. I'll fix the textures in a minute.

 

[Grey Roger]

If possible, you might want to shrink the model - Charles W. Morgan is a lot smaller than USS Constitution!

In the film "Master and Commander", HMS Surprise tries to look like a whaler to lure Acheron into a boarding ambush. It's therefore reasonable to assume that a whaler of the period could look vaguely similar to "RN_Surprise". And frigates of the period looked similar to each other - see if you can tell a "Unite" class, an "Essex" class and an "Endymion" class apart in the game without using spyglass data to identify them! All of which means that if you can shrink your model to about the same size as "RN_Surprise", it could reasonably be the ship that HMS Surprise was trying to impersonate.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

It's so freaking edgy at some spots, and I am not sure how exactly I can shape it back perfectly...

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

If possible, you might want to shrink the model - Charles W. Morgan is a lot smaller than USS Constitution!

In the film "Master and Commander", HMS Surprise tries to look like a whaler to lure Acheron into a boarding ambush. It's therefore reasonable to assume that a whaler of the period could look vaguely similar to "RN_Surprise". And frigates of the period looked similar to each other - see if you can tell a "Unite" class, an "Essex" class and an "Endymion" class apart in the game without using spyglass data to identify them! All of which means that if you can shrink your model to about the same size as "RN_Surprise", it could reasonably be the ship that HMS Surprise was trying to impersonate.

Yeah, true.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

WAIT, NEW IMPORTANT NEWS/UPDATE. I HAVE FOUND A BETTER MODEL FOR THIS, AND THE MODEL I WAS USING BEFORE WILL NOT BE USED.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

If possible, you might want to shrink the model - Charles W. Morgan is a lot smaller than USS Constitution!

In the film "Master and Commander", HMS Surprise tries to look like a whaler to lure Acheron into a boarding ambush. It's therefore reasonable to assume that a whaler of the period could look vaguely similar to "RN_Surprise". And frigates of the period looked similar to each other - see if you can tell a "Unite" class, an "Essex" class and an "Endymion" class apart in the game without using spyglass data to identify them! All of which means that if you can shrink your model to about the same size as "RN_Surprise", it could reasonably be the ship that HMS Surprise was trying to impersonate.

Yeah, I'll scale it down a bit, and I'll change some more important features as well.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

I am now using the USS_Constitution model as a basis, I'll modify it heavily so it looks more like a Whaler.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

Added North Star to the nameplate.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

I have trimmed many parts off the Gunports, and I'll either trim ALL remaining parts left on the gunports or I'll just fill them in from here, but differently from what I normally do.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

Ah, I've found a different way to do this, but it's MUCH more complicated than the original way, but at least it's better. Since I'll be coloring this specific part to match the ship's DARK blue, and moving the white stripe higher on the side, than it will be difficult to notice this difference. Also, we do not have much shine shading on ships in POTC so it won't easily be noticed.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

Wait... I just noticed this - When I fill in a gunport on one side, IT DOES IT TO THE OTHER SIDE TOO!!! YES!!! At least I don't have have to worry about having to do it on the other side manually.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

This is the current progress, keep in mind it looks the exact same on each side. The black lines on there are just left overs, I'll dispose of them later.

 

[Lord Horatio Nelson]

All gunports (except 2 at the front, I am keeping those since I can't seem to fill them in properly) have been filled in, now I must trim all excess parts on them.