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Picture shot for a client who develops these miniatures. Size comparison between a typical 1760s British "Common 74" two-decker ship of the line (bottom left; HMS Captain as commanded by Nelson at Cape St. Vincent 1797); a Spanish three-decker (top left, Captain's prize ARS San Jose in the "Nelson's Patent Bridge" action) and in bottom right a 1780s-1800s Common 74 design (in this case HMS Minden as seen in the bombardments of both Ft. McHenry and Algiers). Top right is HMS Victory as first sailed by Keppel for the Glorious First of June 1778; all these models are works in progress in 1/1000 scale, meaning San Jose and Victory are about as long as my finger.
Why this photo was shot: calling attention to how badly my client has oversized some models in their catalog and grossly undersized others--their existing Spanish three-decker is about the size of Minden, while their existing 1760s Common 74 is a little bigger than Captain and their French and British three-deckers are pretty close to San Jose and Victory.
The entire "shipyard" of fifteen models in progress:
Most of the Ganges class like Minden are on Indefinite Hold until I find period paintings or models for reference; the two smallest ships are a pair of 64-gunners I'm painting as direct replacements for an "official release" where they played "mix and match" slapping names on the wrong sculpt. (Yes, you see three Spanish Purisima Concepcion 112-gunners in that picture even though there were only two built! The third is for San Jose's second life as HMS San Josef, and as soon as either Henry the modelmaker announces another run or I find someone to 3d-print a batch for me I'll be ordering up a half-dozen to stand in for the undersized Ares-official Meregildos 112's because even with the slight detail differences these are MUCH closer to correct for a 1/1000 Meregildos than the ~1/1200 existing release.)
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