Batten down the hatches!! Gun Deck progress

Damn, another overdue blog post! Just want to say though, top effort to everyone on the project - the work produced is excellent and the team on the whole were a great bunch, even though my blog has been redundent lately, communication within the group has been stronger than ever before. thanks again guys, been fun working with you all!

Now, onto the Gun Deck of the H.M.S Victory

After struggling to model the whole of the Victory and failng every time, I decided to concentrate on one aspect of the ship and make it as good as I possibly could. I chose to model the gun deck, not only because of my interest in machines and instruments of war (old and new) but also because I thought it would be a challenge.

After doing abit of research, I discovered that the H.M.S victory had several gun decks, each a different colour, with different weights of guns and also with different structural features, to support the decks above.

I found quite a few pictures of the 'lower' gun deck, which showed quite abit of detail. These are the pictures I used as reference points when creating the model -