Heheh, proportionately, perhaps
( and given what a colossal white elephant the
Dunderbergproved to be, its a wonder we weren't at war with France in 1873...
In any case, the rest of the images.
Frank had it right, by the way- it all started with the bow section of a 1/700 Dragon
Arliegh Burke,
inverted. The deck house is from some ancient Revell/Renwal? box scale ship. It came in a box of
very old build-ups given to me by a friend of a friend about 11-12 years ago. A little work with a
straightedge and some sheet plastic gave me the deck and waterline templates, and a little bit of
Aves epoxy putty, and a scraper gave me the tumblehome. After looking at it for a few months, I decided
I just had to give it a proper hull, and used a scrap of insulation foam, cut with a hot wire cutter, and
shaped with a contour sander rigged up out a....something half cylindrical. I forget. ( But it is
symmetrical, dang it. ) Since these photos were taken, I have covered the foam form with Aves,
and made a first attempt at sails, also from Aves. looking at reference material from the period,
though, I've decided I need to make the main mast two sails, rather than the single it has now.
Aves does seem to work fairly well for sails, though, and its fairly simple. I can probably roll it a bit
thinner. We'll see what happens.