Thank you for the kind words! I am hoping this might encourage people to stop modeling only the same old boring and made-up ships but to try their hand at some of the unique vessels excavated over the past 50-60 years. There are so many wonderful, accurate, real ships that have been published!

And she to have my knowledge base and library :-) A very symbiotic relationship.

Oh indeed! Olya is the modeler! I am the critique :-) Upon rare occasions she even listens to me 😁. Thank you for the kind words and for watching!

Hahaha! I’ll Have to go look at it :-)

In my case- “working” at best! My modeling has always been for research; not display. Thank you for the kind comment and watching the video

The egg carton is used to gap the space between the bulkheads- essentially it is used as planking. The bulkheads and the central longitudinal backbone is actually made from a cardboard box (thank you, Amazon, for providing shipbuilding material…). Thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you for the info!

Thank you for watching and the kind words! Fred Hocker who excavated it and reconstructed the vessel published it in the INA Quarterly and also in a chapter on the shoal water craft of the Southern US. Of course, the title just escaped my mind, but I will think of it and publish it in a comment- if you remind me…

Thank you for the wonderful comment! Aye them were the men, them were the stories! Though I am an archaeologist and as such tend to lean towards the material culture, rather than the more ethnographic aspects. I like the patch idea! I do have a tricorne that the great maritime artist Peter Rindlisbacher gave me when I sailed with him on his sloop in Lake Champlain. Perhaps I shall have to wear it in at least one video! It will be harder to find a 17th c periwig though for my 17th century talks.

Thank you for the comment! Yup- very convenient napkin :-) However… I learned it from Olya! She cleans glue on her hand, too

You are spot on indeed! Much of the sloop is built from left-overs from her kits :-) Including the stem, keel, sternpost -which explains why they are oversized. The stand, too, is from Confederacy trimmed to size for the Clydesdale sloop. As to well-made: I think you are more kind and generous than truthful on this :-) And I thank you for it!

Thank you! Very kind of you to say so. It wasn’t intended to be a display model; just a teaching tool, but…. Mission expanded

At the time when the ship was excavated, the 3D photogrammetry did not exist, alas. It was excavated in 1992, if I recall correctly. They were working in mud up to their waist. In company with crocs and wild boar- entertaining project.

I have been working on this as a teaching tool and haven’t done anything on it in the last year. Olya will post the bulkheads drawings so that you can download them and use them. The drawings and description of the wreck is by Fred Hocker who excavated it. Дуже дякую!

Thank you for watching!

Something along these lines, yes :-). We use models a lot in the reconstruction process. As far as I know, a full scale replica is either under construction already or planned. I would give a lot to see her sail!

Thank you! Very kind of you to say so!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I am not Ukrainian. I just am pro-Ukrainian and continue a long family tradition of being anti-Muscovian. I am actually Bulgarian so fully aware of what beasts the Muscovians are. Hence my support for brave Ukraine. Which predates Olya by a long chalk. As to the card models- I don’t know, in all honesty. This is more for Olya to answer. I was not aware of the Orel (eagle in English) company - I have to look for them and see what they manufacture. I know of the Polish company, of course. As to why I chose card. This is traditional material in archaeological ship reconstruction. Once you work out the shape this way, one builds it also in wood. I never intended the sloop to be anything more than just a card section model showing the lines of the sloop. I built such ones of my Kitten wreck, of the Kyrenia wreck of the 4th c BC, of a French 17th c ship, of the Yassiada 7th c AD. I built them as teaching tools or as reconstruction aid (Kitten). This is all the sloop was intended to be. Then Olya stepped into it. At first I thought I will get away with Ab Hovinh style of card planking, but… Higher Powers intervened again and- voila, the sloop obtained wooden planking.

If Orel is producing a Henry Grace a Dieu model, this is pure fiction. We have no data on her from which to create a real model.

@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist In England we have a breed of person who we call a 'rivet counter'. The rivet counter carefully scrutinises your pride and joy (this can be anything from a model ship to a newly restored classic Triumph motorcycle, I used to collect those), and point out that it isn't correct for that year/model/type etc etc. And that's why I like Tudor warships so much. The 'rivet counter' cannot count anything on the model, because we do not know. The Big Harry is certainly at best a complete guess, as are all the Revenges, Golden Hinds, and Mary Roses, but I like the idea of... Forgive me, it's a harmless hobby. 😉

Thank you!

Excellent question. Yes, of course - I hope that my archaeological background and profession help me in the building or at least in knowing what’s historically accurate and what is not. The ones that I have built or in which I am working are all from drawings- the Keltridge drawings, the Yassiada reconstruction, the Kyrenia ship, now the Clydesdale sloop, a half hull model of the Kitten ship…

An eggsellant model. It’s cool she lets you use her tools. Looks like an interesting boat. After a quick internet read on this and the browns ferry vessel, I have one question; how are the various species of wood identified? Is there a field guide for old rotten wood?