[MOC] L'Aurelié, 44-gun heavy frigate.

[Thomas Waagenaar]

I would like to present my first ship, out of what will hopefully end up as a fleet of many more!

Her name is L'Aurelié, she's a 44-gun heavy frigate. On her lower-deck she carries 28x 24 pounder long guns. On her upper deck she carries 16x 18 pounder long guns, interchangable for carronades! (Not yet designed).
Of these cannons, 2 of them are in bow chase and another 2 in aft chase configuration. 

Overall she is about 110 centimeters long with bowsprit included. On the waterline she is about 80 centimeters long. At her tallest point she is 72 centimeters tall. 
Thematically I went with the flags and ensign of the Russian navy in the 18th century, as I just thought these flags looked cool and fit the colours of the ship quite well!

The printed flags on top of the masts I got from Brickprint in the Netherlands, the large flag at the rear is just a small table flag I took apart with only the flag part remaining.

Sadly, she has no sails and will not get them either, as due to the place she is displayed is right below my AC-unit, meaning that whenever it's blowing air it would essentially mess
up or even rip off the sails in the worst case scenario... As such, I have  decided to not do sails on her. (Which fits my "agenda" anyways as I don't have proper sewing capabilities to make
actually nice looking sails anyways)

I hope you guys enjoy her! She'll be sailing around the Brick Seas too over at the BoBS page, for her story, please click this link! 

L'Aurelié


L'Aurelié


L'Aurelié


L'Aurelié

For some more pictures, please see the album below, if anyone wants more close-ups or anything, let me know and I'll happily take some more! 
I'm aware some pictures are quite dark, the lighting is sadly never really good here in my apartment... :( It's either full sun so the glare is way too extreme, or too little sun, resulting in some darker images...
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVP4s9L

Edited February 27, 2022 by Thomas Waagenaar
Better pictures (Hopefully)

[NOD]

Great heavy frigate!  You built your own ship hull, so the ship is wider and more realistic. The rigging looks good. The main deck has many interesting details.

Edited February 26, 2022 by NOD

[Bodi]

Very nice frigate. You made a strong start for your first ship. Good job with the custom hull and the rigging. I've been following this in the wip thread and it's great to see it in its complete form.

[Mister Phes]

13 hours ago, Thomas Waagenaar said:

 

 

The vessel is fine to be sure!

But, you've got a white wall there yet you're not taking advantage of it.  Instead, we get background distractions like your living room and and even outside the window. Could have easily been avoided with some strategic photography so we could have got a neutral background, enabling better focus on the MOC.

[Thomas Waagenaar]

3 hours ago, Mister Phes said:

The vessel is fine to be sure!

But, you've got a white wall there yet you're not taking advantage of it.  Instead, we get background distractions like your living room and and even outside the window. Could have easily been avoided with some strategic photography so we could have got a neutral background, enabling better focus on the MOC.

I'll see if I can try to move the table to be against the wall and re-take some of the pictures! It's quite a weighty table so I'll do my best! ^^

Edit: New pictures are up, I hope you like them. I moved the table with the ship as close to wall as possible and took the pictures before the sun came bursting through more than it already did!
I noticed the best weather would be cloudy, but that isn't forecast the next few days here (Either heavy rain or sunny), so these will be the "best" I can do for now within my capabilities! ^^

Edited February 27, 2022 by Thomas Waagenaar

[Thomas Waagenaar]

16 hours ago, NOD said:

Great heavy frigate!  You built your own ship hull, so the ship is wider and more realistic. The rigging looks good. The main deck has many interesting details.

Thank you! Was quite difficult to come up with deck details that made sense too :D

 

11 hours ago, Bodi said:

Very nice frigate. You made a strong start for your first ship. Good job with the custom hull and the rigging. I've been following this in the wip thread and it's great to see it in its complete form.

Thanks! Hopefully many more will come, in the future I'll definitely go smaller though, so hopefully it won't take as long!



Also, new and better pictures are there now, so it'll definitely be nicer to view. The old pictures are still avaible on Flickr. I'll keep trying to make better pictures, hopefully one day I'll be able to snap that one golden photo! ^^

[Marooned Marin]

Great pictures, and great custom rowboat 

 

[Feuer Zug]

Excellent work building your frigate. The rigging is superb and the details are all there.

[Red Rackham]

Great. I like photos like this where the ship is lying on such loose water. Unlike on the normal blue baseplates.

The rigging looks perfect, very lively.

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Fine, fine ship!