Showing the colours

[jmv575]

How would one go about adding a flag to the aft of a ship?

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[NathanKell]

You'd need to edit the model and add a locator there for the flag, I think.

 

[Sailor_Al]

Having seen Master and Commander, adding larger flags to the Spanker sail would be neat!

That's a most worthwhile movie, by the way. I'm kind of picky historically, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! There may have been violence, but it's a war movie! There was little, I mean LITTLE, gore. I'd have felt comfortable with my 12 year old girl seeing it.

On the subject of gore, I LOVED Band of Brothers, but I think I could go the rest of my life without seeing the Bastogne episode again...

 

[jmv575]

If you liked the movie, you should read the books. The are excellent. Just like the New York Times said a few years ago, Patrick O'Brien is the best author you've never heard of.

 

[dHerblay]

MAybe not the best author... but a great historically accurate one for sure! I am reading the book since 3 weeks and I can't get out every night before 1am!

 

[jmv575]

Well granted. He's not the greatest author ever, and probably not even the best author "you've never heard of," but from a literary standpoint it can be argued - and has been argued - that there are six great themes: Man against God or Fate; Man against Nature; Man against Man; Man against Woman; Man against Society; and Man against Himself. O'Brien used all of them in every book.

But I do know what you mean. He doesn't have the pure poetic prose like Fitzgerald and doesn't come close to the mastery of one of the real greats, but he has been compared to Homer (thus the Aubreiad, as it is sometimes called). Regardless, they are good.

 

[Sailor_Al]

Well, I may try again... I attempted to read one of his books earlier and felt it was just too ponderous, bogged down, a slow read.

But, I may try again though. I guess I'm more a Hornblower!

 

[jmv575]

That's good too.

 

[Sailor_Al]

<!--`QuoteBegin-jmv575`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jmv575)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If you liked the movie, you should read the books.  The are excellent.  Just like the New York Times said a few years ago, Patrick O'Brien is the best author you've never heard of.[/quote]

Well, I'm reading the first one... and I'm hooked this time. I've just ordered 2 - 4! :

 

[RobinB]

Eh.. Did the Americans of you realize that the ship described in the movie (never read the book) is actually an american ship? The french never invented that type of frigate as far as I know... I think they just made it french and put it into a fitting historical background because (american) people wouldn´t want to see an american frigate defeated by the behated (if there´s such a word english sea dogs :

No offense meant :

RobinB

 

[Sailor_Al]

In the movie I caught the fact that it was an `American-built` ship that was sold to the French, which was done on occasion (though not with a `44-gun` frigate, that I know of).

Reading online summaries of the series of books, one of the later books has Aubrey indeed facing an American frigate. I'm not sure, but I think elements of the movie came from the books Master And Commander and The Far Side Of The World.

That the enemy frigate wasn't American is undoubtably a marketing ploy. I don't think it's so much an issue of hated English sea dogs. The Hornblower and Aubrey series have done very well over here, as has the Richard Sharpe books (English Army, Napoleonic period). Marketing would likely indicate, though, that it's easier for American audiences to see an English frigate pounding a French ship than an American one. And that's about as gentle a way as I can say that...

 

[the_fall_of_rome]

I know, I always say the best ships are our ships! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sailr.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sailr.gif" />