Hi David, I saw this thread and wanted to comment as the ST was (and still is) one of my favorite ships from the Napoleonic Age of Sail. Several years back I built the Langton version of the Santisima and then followed it up with a repaint and kitbash of the Sails of Glory Orient. See threads below if you're interested.

https://www.sailsofglory.org/showthr...isima+trinidad

https://www.sailsofglory.org/showthr...isima+trinidad

With the revelations we've learned concerning scale and it's accuracy over the course of 4 Waves of ships I most likely would not have used the Orient as it's too large. Unfortunately the ships I would have used (the Merigildos from Wave 3) are not scale accurate either and are too small.

Setting aside all discussion of accuracy and focusing on what would look and feel table right I'd probably go back and use a SoG Victory sculpt and kit bash it so it matches the look of the Langton ST. There are plenty of them to use and I found them easy to work with when kitbashing the USS Independence https://www.sailsofglory.org/showthr...s+independence.

If Ares ever does the Santisima Trinidad I'll have to pick it up even though I have no idea how they'll address the scale differences we know exist between all of the ship waves and the special edition Constitution? Cheers.