Shipbucket

Here is my worklist. Many of you have seen entirely Ships-of-the-Line on this page for some time. I still intend to tackle as many as I can, although I now plan to tackle more than just Ships of the Line. Below, you [the reader] will see not just ships of the line but much more!

To those who are curious: I will still be utilizing the Real Designs discussion board under the title "French Ships-of-the-Line," as well as on the Never-Built Designs discussion board, where it will be listed as "French Ships-of-the-Line (Sadly Never Built)." (Whenever I decide to get back to drawing in SB Scale.)

Here's a sample format of how the ships will be listed:

Country of Origin

• Ship's Name [Rate OR Class] Month & Year Depicted → special note (scale used)

Scales Used:

• FD Scale (22.093px to 1m)

• SB Scale (2px to 1ft)

Planned / WIP / Finished (they are linked)
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Created Parts List

French Naval Artillery (1600 to 1850)

• Please note that this document is a work in progress and will be updated sporadically over time.

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Worklist

Britain

• HMS Duke of Kent [First Rate] 1807-9 → Only Designed (FD Scale)

• Euterpe
  • Euterpe [Fully-Rigged Transport] November 1863 (FD Scale)
  • Star of India [Barque Transport] 1906 (FD Scale)
  • Star of India [Museum Ship] 1976 (FD Scale)

Canada

• TEV Princess Marguerite II [Coastal Passenger Transport] 1949 (FD Scale)

France

• Royal Louis [First Rate] 1693 → Requires More Info to Finish

• Royal Louis [First Rate] 1740 → Never Completed

• Sans Pareil Class
  • Sans Pareil [First Rate] 1757–60 → Never Completed
  • Royal Louis [First Rate] July 1762

• Bretagne [First Rate] February 1855 (FD Scale)

• SS Normandie [Ocean Liner] 1935 (FD Scale)

Hungary

• SS Helka [Riverboat] 1891 (FD Scale)

Netherlands

• Panter [Monitor] 1869 (FD Scale)

Spain

• Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad [First Rate] March 1769 (FD Scale)

United States

• USS Pennsylvania [First Rate] July 1837 (FD Scale)

• SS Pacific [Ocean Liner] May 1850 (FD Scale)

• SS Arctic [Ocean Liner] October 1850 (FD Scale)

• Wyoming [Schooner] December 1909 (FD Scale)

• SS United States [Ocean Liner] 1951 (FD Scale)

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Worklist

Working on currently:

• French, Bretagne, First Rate → Attaching the Sails (FD Scale)

• French, SS Normandie, Ocean Liner → Detailing the Hull (FD Scale)

Planned works:

• American, Wyoming, Schooner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, USS Pennsylvania, First Rate → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, SS United States, Ocean Liner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

First and foremost, sorry for my few month delay on an actual post for these vessels. Other than that, I am happy with what I came up with for this first post. I hope you guys like it as much as I had!


Here is the French First Rate Ship-of-the-line:

The Royal Louis (of 1759)

The Royal Louis was a 116-gun ship-of-the-line of the Royal French Navy, designed in 1757 by a Frenchman by the name of Jacques-Luc Coulomb and constructed in 1757 to 1762 by Laurent Coulomb at Brest Dockyard. She was the fourth ship to bear the name, and the only ship of the Sans-Pareil (Will draw soon) design ever built.

Sadly this vessel never saw service and in 1771 was noted to have become very “deteriorated beyond repair.” Therefore, in 1773 she was broken up.



Edit: I fixed up some lines and corrected the date I originally had (May 1759) and replaced it with the date that the ship was completed (July 1762).


Thank you all for your patient wait as I took a long time pushing this vessel out. I have more to come soon.

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Worklist

Working on currently:

• French, Bretagne, First Rate → Attaching the Sails (FD Scale)

• French, SS Normandie, Ocean Liner → Detailing the Hull (FD Scale)

Planned works:

• American, Wyoming, Schooner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, USS Pennsylvania, First Rate → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, SS United States, Ocean Liner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

Beautiful drawing!

But while here's the right place for workLISTS, the right place for WORK from such lists is rather Real Designs Forum:
viewforum.php?f=12

(unless it's an unbuilt project or own design, of course)

Ah! Okay, good to know. I will be sure to post others there too. Thanks a ton! And yes, spent months making sure it was correct, so I am happy the vessel came out beautiful!

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Worklist

Working on currently:

• French, Bretagne, First Rate → Attaching the Sails (FD Scale)

• French, SS Normandie, Ocean Liner → Detailing the Hull (FD Scale)

Planned works:

• American, Wyoming, Schooner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, USS Pennsylvania, First Rate → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, SS United States, Ocean Liner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

A very warm welcome, and indeed a beautiful drawing. Very well done, and hoping to see more of your work soon.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Oh yes! You will more alright, plan to tackle all the ship above and more too! My current new project is another Royal Louis that was built in 1693.

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Worklist

Working on currently:

• French, Bretagne, First Rate → Attaching the Sails (FD Scale)

• French, SS Normandie, Ocean Liner → Detailing the Hull (FD Scale)

Planned works:

• American, Wyoming, Schooner → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, USS Pennsylvania, First Rate → Blueprint (FD Scale)

• American, SS United States, Ocean Liner → Blueprint (FD Scale)