Best ship for repaint to HMS Surprise?

[nilliom]

What would be the best ship of the existing one for a repaint of HMS SURPRISE. L'Unité or the HMS Unite?

Thanks

[Craig]

What would be the best ship of the existing one for a repaint of HMS SURPRISE. L'Unité or the HMS Unite?

Thanks

What colour scheme and details are you planning on using?

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Craig

[nilliom]

I have found pictures of the replica that was created for the movie, so I will base myself on that

[Clipper1701]

Now this is something my elves would be interested in!

[Swamprat33]

Hi all, This is my first post here, but I was also going to create the famouse HMS Surprise as it was the captured L'Unité.
I fist thought AHA, lets use the the Concorde and make up a new card for her.
In actual fact HMS Surprise was a French Unité class corvette launched in 1794 and was much shorter than the Concorde class frigate.
The Unité Corvette was 129ft long but the Concorde was 143ft long.
I decided this is too big a difference so have shelved my plans for the moment.
Hoping that Ares release a Corvette in the 3rd release.

Cheers

Tim

[Nightmoss]

Hi Tim! Welcome to the Anchorage and thanks for your post.

[Gunner]

Welcome from Arizona, Tim.

[Clipper1701]

So I ran the numbers on the movie "Surprise" and did a layout to build from at 1/1000" scale. Does anyone have the info to make a base card? Or rather which chip out there is equal or near enough?

[Coog]

Here's some info on HMS Surprise for anyone wanting to try to model her.



http://www.ctbasses.com/misc/BruceTrinque/surprise.html

[Clipper1701]

Thanks from Surprise AZ!

[Clipper1701]

So the drawings are set, still need to have a base for her, is there a comparable one out there? I am definitely in strange waters here . . .

[David Manley]

If you are doing anything on the Surprise then I'd recommend this book:



http://www.amazon.com/The-Frigate-Su.../dp/039307062X

although I would also recommend shopping around as the price listed here is a bit "steep" (I got mine for a tenner in a remaindered bookshop in the UK)

[Gunner]

Yep. Nothing like spending $162.00 to paint a $15.00 model.

Try http://store.anovabooks.com/index.ph...-surprise.html they show it for £30.00

OOPS! No wonder the price is low. They're out of stock.

[7eat51]

See if your local library has an interlibrary loan program, or if you know of anyone at a university, they might have access to such a program. In Illinois, any student, or faculty or staff member can request books from most any academic library in the state, and have it delivered to their school within days.