RESEARCHING HMS VICTORY

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

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[@AcquiredByGod]

Olha has every single skill required and many more amazing skills to achieve this! It will be the Ultimate Playlist. Thank You. You have put a whole new light to Victory that i have not seen.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Thank you for the kind words! She was a ship with far more interesting history and career than the predictable Trafalgar campaign.

[@DARIVSARCHITECTVS]

Thanks you, Kroum, for spending time sharing your expertise on the web! few understand that ships which have long careers are refit, remasted, and modified extensively, and it's hard to model an earlier version without proper documentation.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Thank you for the kind words! Yes, indeed: ships had long lives and were frequently repaired and modified. It is a pity that all modelers only choose to model Victory in her uglier Trafalgar look. I recognize that few are even aware of her extensive and interesting career before the Nelson episode

[@DARIVSARCHITECTVS]

@@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist One of the reasons modelers build the latest version of Victory is that the ship is extant and there is amble documentation for the ship as it is currently. I like the older ships of the Baroque period with all the carvings. The only reliable source I found for the French great ship La Couronne was a simple graphite sketch drawn from an overlooking hillside which included a French Fortress, La Couronne and the St. Louis in the water in the background. Try building a model from that! :) At least it showed where the ships channels were located, between the lower and upper gun decks.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Oh, people have tried! :-)) Right up there with the carrack. Victory, like Constitution, was much more beautiful before the 1803 repairs. And she had a long career, active career before Trafalgar - from the battle of Ushant to the battle of St Vincent. If it has to be her, why not in the earlier, equally well documented look?

[@kevelliott]

I live just over the river from Chatham, where 'Victory' was launched, and on the same side of the river, and less than half a mile from where 'Bellerophon' was launched.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Ah, the famous 74-gun ship! And a dear friend of mine lives a couple of hundred yards from the slip in which Agamemnon was built

[@frankw7266]

I kinda feel the same way about the Terror... everyone remembers, and builds her, as the exploration vessel because she is so famous for the Franklin Expedition. But, it is one of my bucket list builds to make her in her original bomb vessel configuration as she would have been during the siege of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, witnessed by Francis Scott Key, giving us the famous line "the bomb bursting in air".

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Exactly!

[@RPMZ11]

Very intersting.

[@JMHTruck32005]

Thank you very much for all of the information you have attached here. Your approach and presentation are wonderful, as is your dry sense of humor...Love it... P.S. where do I send the money?

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Thank you ever so much for the very kind words! I am glad you are enjoying the channel!

[@jeroenvermunt862]

The ship models of that time are forever unmatched in spirit, originality and beauty compared to any model made in a later era.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

I fully agree with you! I love the Navy Board models, but I also love the Dutch 17th c models, too.

[@CAPNMAC82]

Amen, Professor. I have similar feelings about Hornet, Arizona, even Hood. We are far too arbitrary in assigning a "when" to ships, then picking away at minutiae to no real end (and skipping over doing even basic research our own selves).

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Thank you - clearly you and I are on the same page about research :-)

[@savadrenovac3537]

I watched the last video about this, and from that moment i want to make the original version of her, don't be mad at me please, but it will take me some years. Thank you so much

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

If I had $5 for every model of Victory out there, as Peter Goodwin once told me, I would be a very rich man indeed and right now would be sipping a drink on an Edwardian period sailing yacht in the Caribbean :-) However, at least it is her original, not the bloody Trafalgar again, look that you shall be modeling :-) Keep me posted on your progress, please !

[@savadrenovac3537]

​@@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist I will definitely do it, i also learnt a lot from both channels regarding scratch building, so i am most excited to do it that way. What scale is the best for a lot of details? Thank you again.

[@davidrasch3082]

Maybe JoTiKa would be an excellent to do this model of the original victory or expand the existing kit including this option.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

This is an excellent idea! I hope they do it. If people insist on building the exact same model over and over again, might at least try to offer some variation

[@davidrasch3082]

@@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist Each ship has its own personality, developed by the designers and moulded by the builders, finished by the sailors, I think.

[@lidialidia6981]

Дякую 💙💛👍

[@egoralpatov6059]

Good afternoon Very good joke! ,👻, about the Caribbean archipelago! Although, 🤔, what if...

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

Thank yoi

[@Лімон228]

Привіт з України

[@Лімон228]

Бачив твій корабель

[@OlhaBatchvarov]

Ви мабуть мали на увазі мій корабель? Моя модель VICTORY десь в приватній коллекції в Чехії.

[@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist]

I am not a modeler myself: I am a ship archaeologist.