16th, 17th and 18th Century Ship Blueprints

Polynurb

I've added a bunch of 16th, 17th and 18th Century ship blueprints up on my blog. They are extremely high resolution in .TIFF format, and they took me days to gather up and compile together. I wanted to share them with others to help make finding references for these types of ships much easier. Enjoy.

http://fatboxsoftware.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/264/

Docm30

Thanks. I was needing something like this.

jimmypopali

Looks great, thanks.

Now we need a Polycount Community Old Ship Thread.

Kwramm

great thanks!

For those guys who need more details on those ships - books for wooden ship model builders are very good resources. Those guys often go into extreme details, like how to do the knots, and ropes and winches, sails, etc. all with close up illustrations of the small details.

I got both of those books - lots and lots of pictures (don't let the German text scare you)

[ame="http://www.amazon.de/Historische-Schiffsmodelle-Wolfram-zu-Mondfeld/dp/3572014646"]Historische Schiffsmodelle: Amazon.de: Wolfram zu Mondfeld: Bücher[/ame]
focuses on illustration of details on deck and ornaments

http://www.amazon.de/Historische-Modellschiffe-Bauk%C3%A4sten-Peter-Holz/dp/3788321415/ref=pd_sim_b_1/280-7167072-4978427
equal focus between illustrations and actual tips for building a wooden model

R3D

Magnificent!!!

Ben Apuna

Simply awesome! Thanks

Artist_in_a_box

Sweet man, I was thinking about something like this for my next project, awesome.

Elyaradine

Aw, man, that's awesome! Thanks!

Polynurb

I like the idea of a thread for ship building artwork...I mean that's almost a community to itself! Glad to hear these blueprints are helping some folks out.

Polynurb

Added in another set of blueprints, this time it's for the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides).... follow the link to grab some ship blueprints.

http://fatboxsoftware.wordpress.com/

Jeff Parrott

Very cool reference blueprints. Thanks!

Polynurb

Yeah to be honest I would love to see some high poly models come from these...if anyone starts a project with one, post some WIP links. I'll be working on iPad resolution models myself.

GarageBay9

I think one of the most fascinating things from those images is how they show the technology of wooden shipbuilding evolving. Look at pre-1500 vessels like Santa Maria, or even the late 1500s HMS Revenge that are short bow-to-stern, have a very deep keel, and have aft and fore decks that rise so sharply the whole ship looks arched. Then almost 400 years later you compare that to Constitution and Ajax and their keel is slightly shallower, but their hull plan and deck looks almost flat in comparison.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting!

Kwramm

I always loved old ships. Even built a model of Columbus' Nina almost all with nurbs some years ago. Although I've been thinking of coming back to it and turning it into a game ready model and redo the textures.
I really loved nurbs for doing sails and the hull of the ship - although nowadays I'd switch to polies sooner. Back then I stuck to nurbs till the end... at least it gave me nice UVs