Quote Originally Posted by TexaS View Post
DB, It's an interesting idea. It would be good to have, but it'll be a lot of work.
This is why I suggest a team project. :) If I just throw up a Google sheet and we can all plug in links to contemporary paintings and dockyard models as we find them... well, one ship here and another there, and with just a little investment at a time we could have a good size database surprisingly quick. Like handing a hundred guys shovels and having 'em each turn a few shovelfuls of dirt to dig a ditch, "many hands make for light work." Even if all anyone else does is plug in a reference link and I break it down into gallery, gallery trim, base hull, side marking, and beakhead colors myself...

Big question... this one has Tremendous and Minden stalled. In the "Whitewalls" era (War of 1812 and Late Napoleonic), would beakheads have typically been white, or still yellow?