Basing HMS Endymion

HMS Endymion basing attempt 1

A photo posted by @throughthewormholeblog on Jan 25, 2015 at 10:03am PST

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dickon66 says:

January 26, 2015 at 3:27 am

Looking good, but please get a bit of plastic rod and glue it as a cross-piece under the jib sails, looks odd without it.

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1. Stewart says:
  
  January 26, 2015 at 9:44 am
  
  The spritsail yard? I’ve looked at loads of images and it’s about 50/50 as to whether HMS Endymion had one. The bowsprit was completely lost to a storm in 1815, bringing USS President in as a prize, so it’s possible a change was made then, but after 1815 she rarely left port. It’s more common on larger ships but since there’s no spritsail on the model I’m going to leave it off. I’ll grant I could add a dolphin striker though…
  
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dickon66 says:

January 26, 2015 at 3:07 pm

All of the pictures of the Endymion, from the front, that I’ve seen show the yard, in line with the heel of the jibboom and the martingale. I’d add one, it’ll look better.

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