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  1. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    I haven't been able to get the long guns to import with textures... Could you upload them as a Maya file so I can see if I can get them to work like the carronades did? :)
  2. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Ooohhhh... Shiny death :D Looks like I'll have to do some more work on the other textures to match that quality... I've got Maya installed now, was able to convert the file myself. Thanks :)
  3. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    No wheels, I added the blocks underneath.
  4. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Canopus is shaping up. Once I've completed the head I'll switch back to the Shannon and finish her. Speaking of which... Those carronades might be to scale, or close at least. They have a length of 1.1m, which is apparently correct for a 24lb carronade. I've scaled them up to a length of...
  5. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    3rd rate in British service, I don't know what the french designation would be. Which said, she is a few feet longer than the Victory and carries an extra pair of guns on each of the two lower gundecks. All modular, only the inner side of the hull above the waterline is actually attached to the...
  6. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    That's an idea for the name... Will wait and see what naming convention is used. GoF seems to use a mixture of individual ship names and descriptions like "Heavy Frigate". If we are using class names for Hearts of Oak she can be the Canopus class, otherwise I might pick an individual name from...
  7. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Armada, no the Shannon is not yet complete, she is getting close but everything left is fiddly and not much fun, was feeling a little burned out and decided to take a break to build something else. Captain Armstrong, perhaps you could build the Bucentaure or a Tonnant in French configuration...
  8. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Yeah, I thought the size looked a little off but I'd used the same scale conversion as for the cannon... This would be one scary Indiaman :D Very close with the Temeraire. I'd badly wanted to build one, but seeing as you'd mentioned one was already in the works was looking around for...
  9. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Reworked a lot of the textures, finally got the carronades to import, few other details.... ...oh, and Shannon isn't alone anymore :D
  10. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Well, that makes it a lot easier to plan ahead :) for PotC I'll do 2 models then, each with its own stern gallery, figurehead and paintscheme. Possibly the yellow strake and the narrow strake, can be decided later. For CoAS I'll stick to the 2 models but will have up to 6 schemes to play...
  11. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    CoAS seems to have that. My current squadron has 2 yellow straked Temeraire class 74s, a white straked version, a red-blue-yellow version, and I've seen an all black paintscheme and a red strake version. Also 2 different Bellona version and the dark wood/blue version of the Couronne (I managed...
  12. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Ah, I haven't really played PotC, only a little CoAS. Didn't realize you had a color scheme for each nation. Can different national paintschemes be made with only different textures, without needing to have a separate copy of the model? Although my preference in this regard would be to have...
  13. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    As far as I know no Leda class frigate was captured by any other navy... Though I suppose yellow or white "Nelson Chequer" could well be seen on French and American ships as well as British during this era. Probably other nations too, and the Leda class does resemble similar frigate types that...
  14. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    I've finished up the stern decorations and mapped the stern gallery, since this area is all but complete. Just need to replace the top rail and and the curved piece at the bottom of the quarter gallerys (no idea what that is called :D) Found a polycount plugin for SketchUp, tells me the model...
  15. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    :) I don't think Sketchup is as powerful as for example Maya, but it makes up for this with ease of use. Probably the programme has improved with time though. Helps that I'd been wanting to build a ship model for a long time and had a fair idea of how I would construct it from looking at other...
  16. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    One paintscheme per stern gallery, or the other way around :p Planning 3-4. Trincomalee's current paintscheme with straight headrails and the 8 window stern gallery from her plans, a version with a white strake going all the way forward, a version with the classic Nelson chequer, and the...
  17. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Think I'll do 3 different stern galleries for different versions. Lacedamonian style but with 8 windows, the 6 window version and one Trincomalee style. Only need to move a few pieces around and change decorations. I take it Trincomalee's current 7 window stern gallery is a more modern version...
  18. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Right, I went for top hinged then.
  19. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    Yes, I was thinking the Lacedamonian is probably going to be closer to the Shannon that the Trincomalee would be. Could be wrong... Hinged from the top or split in two?
  20. Alex Connor

    WIP - HMS Shannon (1806) 38 guns

    8 windows or 6? Seems to have been early Ledas with both configurations... Also, got a question about gunports. Trincomalee seems to have removable rather than hinged gunport lids, is it likely an earlier Leda would be fitted like that?
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