HMS Victory by the hankster
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Description
The HMS Victory is most famous for her role as the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. One of the oldest commissioned warship in the world, she currently lies in No 2 Dry Dock at Portsmouth Naval Base in England under going restoration.
I had originally created a low poly model of the vessel for someone who is developing a sailing ship simulation. After that was completed, I enhanced the model with more details and better textures for rendering in Max. The Max version of the ship is still relatively low poly, weighing in at about 50K faces if you exclude the base, sails and the flags. All of the rigging and some of the detail objects such rudder chains, anchor ropes, hammock nets, etc were all done with renderable splines (finally found a use for that feature besides hair).
The main reference I used to build the ship was the book "Anatomy of the Ship series: The 100-Gun Ship Victory" by John McKay. I also had pictures of the actual ship and of museum quality models to help me with the texturing.
The ship is now available in the MarketPlace in the 3D Models section.
Comments (53)
Daniel7Mc
This is very, very fine! Congratulations! I would like to ask if you or anyone you know has considered making a model of a Viking long ship?
DeZ
The most fabulous ship model I have ever seen...and I got in line to buy it ;) Congratulations Hankster!
george
bingo...perfect artwork
gusRM
Outstanding..
Mike Waters
As a sailor myself it is especially nice to see the flags and sails all set in a way that is consistent with a realistic wind!
Shademaster
Wah! You are crazy man! I think we should name you modelman or something!
ShadowWind
This is an incredible reproduction. Wow. Words probably won't express how cool this is....
Delrino
nothing less than a 10!!! im very impressed by this piece of art. very detailed!
Darksteps
Sweet Jesus, if you complemented me on one of my images then that's high praise indeed... This is exquisite work... in the words of Wayne, "I'm not worthy!"
humorix
Beautiful and intricate work!
Guillermo
Amazing details!
agades
Great work! Are you oldtimer's fan? Great!
rockmore
Great model......This shows a great imageination and creativity. I like it! I consider myself fortunate to have located this! Ummmm what do I rate such a lovely piece of work?
rinkobayashi
prrrrrrrrr :P
davew
Wow the work that has gone into this what a great end result
Little Red
I really like your presentation... this is an AWESOME model!
giancarlo17
Fantastic realization, wonderful job; I do not have sufficenti words. Interested the purchase. Model for 3DSMAX version 3. Real Rating 10+++
selimaydogdu
what the hell you do man this is crazy work you must be very patient
Fogge
Very impressive model. Excellent work...
Fire_Child
its funny i saw it tonight, cuase i just wathced a documentery on it, looks good, too bad the texture of the crest does not look sharp, but considering the complexity of this model i think i'll let it slide ;) truly a great peice of art, too bad your selling it at only $15 ($30 Aussi dolars) your hard work and effort should be worth more... anyways keep up the good work
Anthropon
Amazing model! I'm sure you're selling lots of these beauties
zippokeeper
nice model. I bought it but find the texturing a bit strong. IE on a lot of the ship the planking is really not visible. Also the paint is very matt. I was down at portsmouth last year and will send some photos. Wonderful work though. Admirable. Thanks for making it available to us. How about a titanic for 15 bucks(G)
DukeNukem2005
This is a very good picture! Excellent artwork!