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by Beck
Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:24 pm
Forum: Ship Building
Topic: Reading ship plans/blueprints
Replies: 5
Views: 11245

Re: Reading ship plans/blueprints

Hi again Carl, Again, big help and I think I'm reading the plans correctly now. The deck lines are simple enough although I didn't know they stepped down in places, will have to investigate how that looked, very interesting! The other lines you mentioned are basically (If I understood correctly) jus...
by Beck
Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:23 pm
Forum: Ship Building
Topic: Reading ship plans/blueprints
Replies: 5
Views: 11245

Re: Reading ship plans/blueprints

Sorry, Carl! Really appreciate the reply and I thought I had replied but I guess my connection cut out and it didn't send or something. I'll try grab a hold of some of those books as they sound like they're quite interesting. Thank you. I do already have Lavery's book on Surprise and it has some ver...
by Beck
Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:12 pm
Forum: Ship Building
Topic: Reading ship plans/blueprints
Replies: 5
Views: 11245

Reading ship plans/blueprints

Hi all, I've always been interesting in building a 3D computer model of a warship from the age of sail. I love the era and would potentially like to make an educational game or interactive book kind of about the life aboard these ships. Now, I can create 3D models pretty well and I create video game...
by Beck
Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: Forum Talk
Topic: Images on ship pages?
Replies: 3
Views: 7010

Re: Images on ship pages?

Thanks for the reply, Cy. I understand it's a lot more data and work, just hadn't seen a suggestion so thought I'd bring it up. Navclio, thank you for the detailed response! I'll try track down some of those books and probably end up making a new thread here eventually when I come to modeling a ship...
by Beck
Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:21 pm
Forum: Forum Talk
Topic: Images on ship pages?
Replies: 3
Views: 7010

Images on ship pages?

Hey guys, Came across this amazing resource last night and had to sign up. I'm a huge fan of the age of sail and I want to learn more about the history of this time so the data you have here will hopefully help with my endeavour. Thank you for compiling it!! After taking a look over some ships in yo...