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[Mission_bug]

Nelson's Victory.

Now that would be interesting in its own slot and with guns.


The detailing work you are doing is truly awesome rogeroger, looking forward to seeing it all finished.


Take care and be safe.


Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[fightingirish]

Fire up the Junkers, we've got some targets to bomb!!
You are a true artist and detail like this makes the game even more immersive, thank you

[rogeroger]

Thanks Mission_Bug and  fightingirish !

The Victory was so small when compared with WW2 battleships.









 I didn't spend much time on scaling, I just used the comparison illustration as a rough reference. It probably needs to be a wee bit smaller and it purposefully sits a bit too high in the water.  It was my first nautical model and great fun to research and build.

[asheshouse]

Ships of the line were the most technically advanced and most expensive constructions of their time. The Royal Dock Yards, charged with construction and maintenance of the navy were instrumental in the introduction of numerous aspects of industrialisation and development of production lines.

[rogeroger]

Google has it being built at:   1759: Building of HMS Victory
Victory was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built at Chatham Dockyard. Over 2000 oak trees were used in the construction of the hull – equivalent to 60 acres of forest. The final cost was £63,176 (over £50 million today). The decision to name the ship Victory was not popular.


After Southampton, Sheerness will receive some attention, another old naval dockyard.

[Mission_bug]

I didn't spend much time on scaling, I just used the comparison illustration as a rough reference.

For something so old I would consider it good enough, I mean hardly likely there are still decent line drawings
available today and if they are will be safely locked in a vault out of reach.

Ships of the line were the most technically advanced and most expensive constructions of their time.

It is amazing that those preserved ships we still have as old as they are still look so impressive even to this day, not quite so much when put up against the more modern vessels of WWII, nonetheless like with old biplanes you can still feel the technological advancement when you see them up close and see the craftsmanship used for their construction.

I do not know much of the restoration/preservation of Victory but was she still in situ during the war or was she moved to a safer location?


Take care and be safe.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[rogeroger]

I do not know much of the restoration/preservation of Victory but was she still in situ during the war or was she moved to a safer location?

I was wondering the same thing. I googled this:
HMS Victory is still a serving Royal Navy vessel and is the oldest ship still in commission with any navy in the world. The last time Victory was minus its masts was in 1944 when they were removed after having been damaged during a Luftwaffe bombing raid on the dockyard in 1941

The masts were removed recently for maintenance.

Portsmouth bombing raid:

[Mission_bug]

That would seem to indicate then that no attempt was made to move what must be considered the countries most famous vessel from harms way.

You would think the vessel would actually belong to the Imperial War Museum rather than be a naval asset, maybe back in the forties she was used to train naval cadets and tradesmen about the historical importance of naval ships to these islands in what could be considered the ultimate classroom, as far as I know the navy still teaches old sea skills and sends cadets out on rigged sailing ships as part of their training, what better place to teach something like that than on Victory.

The ship really can be considered a national treasure, even in wartime you would think it could have been towed out to a safe place away from the military port.

Surprising how little we actually know about our own history.

Take care and be safe.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[Andy H]

More great work, rogeroger. 

[rogeroger]

Thanks mate.

[rogeroger]

A small update, Littlehampton and Arundel.








JUST NOTICED THE GASTANKSCONTAINERS ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACK.




SOME TREES TO STILL BE ADDED AROUND THE CASTLE

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

Thanks for the fixing of this little discrepance....flying over there 'll be a lot more immersive!