Hey Mates,
http://www.flickr.com//photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157631639521420/show/
So I am actually home this week. I need some help. I have been scouring the Russian sites for ships and items for GOF: Eras mod and have finally hit paydirt. You would not believe the number of our old modder models I found in their stuff.
So this is a model of a medium Dutch Frigate of about 1640-1680. She has a beautiful hull form and lines, but the Russians had her so full of goofey hollywood looking decorations that you could hardly make out what she was. She looked like a floating Christmas tree. I have decided to keep the gaudy version as a separate ship in Eras that will belong to a Pirate NPC only or will be encountered in a high level bounty hunter encounter.
Otherwise I want to make numerous versions of this frigate with slightly different color schemes and decorations. There would have been thousand of ships like this in the 17th century. Most folks don't realize that LITERALLY 80 percent of the worlds ships from 1660-1700 were Dutch.
She would have been used for trade and war and would have been the bulk of many convoys. We have tons of examples of her type surviving in paintings and other media. The Dutch Escort ship by Yo Ho Ho and the Frederick William zu Pferde by Remus77 made available by SeaNorris and finished by Damski and Pgargon are good examples of these types of ships, but at the larger end of the spectrum. The stock Pinnace and Pgargon's Dutch Pinnace/Berlin are good examples of the smaller end of the spectrum, but we are missing that medium level ship that would have been so common.
I lack the texture and photo shop ability of Craiggo. I am learning but don't really have the time to learn well quick with all my Real Life projects. I also lack the expertise of Hylie on the rigging/sails. Yeah I know which rey is which sail and can steal them from ships to put on others, but don't know any more beyond that. I would like this ship to have a couple main textures with one Dutch green and one red - clinker built upper structures. Red on the inside of the gun port hatches and inner gunwales. I would like many differing taffrail decorations as per my Flickr set http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157624827690955/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157632134773565/
I would especially like the red taffrail with the white rampant horse pictured in this set. I would also like a rig much like the Dutch Escort Ship and FWzP with three sails per main and fore masts.
So here are screenshots of my work/play with the model. I have just been experimenting with different textures we already have to get a more common look. I will offer $400 USD to anyone that will finish this project to my desires. The finished work would be available to everyone at PA for COAS and POTC mods. If no one helps, I will figure it out myself, but it will probably be a year or so before I get it like I want. I will make the ship files available to anyone that wants to help. MK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157631639521420/show/