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Indiaman, or Flying Dutchman? lol Is that his Falmouth?

Henry tells me that BHR is planned for his stab at Continentals, and I'm trying to persuade him to also do a Pre-Refit version to upgrade...

The other question would be, would you put a boarding party on a ship to scuttle it and make SURE the other guys can't salvage or retake it? Also, if the player controlling the struck ship has...

In modern military terms, it's the difference between a "Mission Kill" vs a "Hard Kill." Mission Kill is when an asset is damaged beyond ability to continue mission, say a dive-bomber squadron at...

Did find a supplier who's compliant with FS spec, but ten bucks for two ounces on a project that may never resume is a little steep. Tamiya X23 looks close enough though and a lot cheaper.

This is...

Welcome aboard, from a bunker somewhere under the Cascade Mountains foothills near Seattle.

Rustoleum, their parent company, basiclly gutted the business unit, stripping it down to kits and a handful of basic paints/glues....

Vallejo were my go-to for custom repaints in War at Sea days, more convenient for me to get and one of the Forumini crew had pre-built the cross-reference on them for our game. Also liked the easy...

Well, Henry's ships are somewhere in transit and I'm consulting references Rob at Ares sent me to select Vallejo paints for 'em.

At least with this, when you print your own and it comes out off scale, there's the ability to type in a correction and get it right, unlike Minigildos and Baby Baham one way or Roid Rage...

According to Winfield and Wikipedia, you have Canada 2' too long, at 170' it comes out about 1/710. Not much better of a match but a little.

Target lengths for a 1/700 LD should be 2.906" on LD...

Eric, somewhere along the line while this thread was originally targeted on frigates and making production-viable clusters out of the historical USN the rest of the fleet crept in along the way. :)...

True, but IIRC Winfield made it sound like the early USN SOL's were even worse than normal. Then again, why bother, it looks like it'll be a cold day in Hell before we see anything beyond straight...

Ares presently hard-stops at the end of War of 1812 (much like how for me as a New York Central Railroad modeler and historian, the world ended at the stroke of midnight January 31, 1968 with that...

These would be Independence/Washington and their successors, "super size" being my term--nominally classed as 74's, but in fact no more so than a Humphreys/Doughty Superfrigate was a "mere" 44.
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Another variable would be is deck length measured as a flat plane, or along the sheer of it? Different sheer curvature will subtly increase or decrease deck length.

Also, the French inch and the Spanish inch are not the same, and even Spanish ships from different times do not use the same measure--some are built by the archaic codo, others by the Burgos foot....

Here's both of Henry's 74's plus Bellona together in 1/500 or double-Ares scale. Top to bottom Bellona-Ganges-Orion, it's surprising that Canada has so much more hull outside the deck length.
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Side note: According to Winfield, the American supersize 74's were unable to open their LD ports in heavy seas. Sounds like a mechanic where they get buffed up to a First Rate gun level, but if the...

At this scale the 6" length difference on LD is so insignificant as to be a Rounding Error. I'd need to take a closer look at the drawings again, but some designs extend the LD into the gallery while...

Henry, if it helps to know Greenwich draughts usually show the decks as dashed lines. Beam is usually over the hull planks, not including catheads.

Ganges should be 6" shorter LGD and almost a foot beamier, about 75 tons heavier. That pic looks almost like you have a 1/1000 Ganges and a 1/1200 Canada. Looks like the Ares Scale Curse has spread...

Since some ships were cut and stretched fullsize, for them I'd suggest designers "cut" the model where the original was split and also offer a component for the "plug" so you have both pre- and...

Condolences to our British friends.

This is the kind of thing where "spreading damage" like fire and flood could use an app to help track them...

Good to know, I had planned to use sprue nippers.