Victory and her relatives... (Second card ideas)

[Diamondback]

So, I've been trying to come up with some assessments about how much mileage Andrea can get out of each sculpt, and found a few possible candidates to re-use Victory. Thinking being, if we only get "HMS Victory 1805 Trafalgar Side A/HMS Victory 1765 Commissioning" that's not a lot of reason to buy a second mini, BUT if we can get a near-sister on the B-side that's both a reason to buy another copy AND a future re-use for the sculpt.

Technical guys, here are the candidates--any I should strike? Not so technicals, which of these would get you most excited about "ooh, I GOTTA have that!"?

1745 Establishment 100-gun: (supposedly construction was started from the draughts for Royal George)
- 1756-1782 Royal George
- 1762-1825 Britannia/1810 Princess Royal/1812 St. George/1819 Barfleur

1810 Boyne 98-gun: (which IF I'm reading descriptions right were basically "build another Victory but leve off two guns")
- 1810-61 Boyne/1834 Excellent
- 1811-33 Union

1810 Impregnable-line 98/100/104 (later 110; rating depends on date):
- 1810-1906 Impregnable
- 1820 Trafalgar
I know the two late-1820s Princess Charlottes are in this line too, but they're clearly "after the game" and even HMS Trafalgar is borderline.

So, what say ye, lads and ladies?

[Berthier]

1745 Establishment 100: HMS Britannia gets my vote

[Jack Aubrey]

Let`s get all of them..

[Comte de Brueys]

1745 Establishment 100: HMS Britannia

Exactly my choice, Daniel. :g&t:

Two British 1st rates are enough.

[Beowulf03809]

C'mon! Victory, Britannia and Royal Sovereign. How else are you supposed to do Trafalgar? (not to mention four Second Rate and about 20 Third Rates...and a couple opponents crazy enough to bring 30+ ships for the Combined).

Of course, if we just wanted to do one column we only need one Fist, two Second and about a dozen Third (two of which we're already getting!). That's more reasonable.

[David Manley]

All of them of course. make the palysheets free downloads and you are there :)

[Green flash]

I'm for all of them.

[Diamondback]

Oh, one other datapoint to note... Victory is eight feet (about two and a half millimeters in this scale) longer than her ancestors.

[Nightmoss]

I'm not knowledgeable enough to pick one, so I picked them all! :)

[pward]

Let`s get all of them..

Agreed!

[Naharaht]

From the pictures I have seen HMS Britannia looks closer to HMS Victory than HMS Royal George.