Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: stevebo on November 30, 2015, 01:14:03 pm

Title: 1860 HMS Warrior
Post by: stevebo on November 30, 2015, 01:14:03 pm

Hi. I have a hankering to scratchbuild HMS Warrior after visiting her in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, but cannot find any trace of plans anywhere. For such an important vessel, I find this a bit odd. Does anyone know of any?

Title: Re: 1860 HMS Warrior
Post by: Colin Bishop on November 30, 2015, 01:47:40 pm

You will probably have noticed William Mowll's model in the adjacent building. This was the subject of a book which was in turn based upon his long running series in Model Boats magazine. The book does contain drawings but I'm not sure what is covered.

http://www.internetmodeler.com/scalemodels/nrbook_reviews/Building-a-Model-Scale-Warship-By-William-Mowll.php

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Working-Model-Warship-Warrior/dp/1557500983

Lambert's book is also well thought of:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/HMS-Warrior-Andrew-D-Lambert/dp/1844861287

There is a comprehensive set of plans held by the National Maritime Museum if you have deep pockets!

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;searchTerm=warrior

Colin

Title: Re: 1860 HMS Warrior
Post by: deadbeat on November 30, 2015, 02:52:54 pm

If you want to go down the kit route I think Billings does a pretty good kit, not cheap though.