New fleet

[sboerner]

I've been working on a fleet of early 19th-century canal boats to use for the rest of my scenes. This is a good start - two freighters, a scow, and a packet - but there are others I want to do as time goes by. Beam is 12-14 feet, length varies between 60-80 feet. These boats are all based on wrecks recently discovered on the floor of New York's Seneca Lake, which was (and still is) connected to the canal system.

[WAS]

Wow these are lovely. Great attention to detail of the era. I really need to learn to model before I'm 40 lol 😂 that's 8 years! Better get at it.

[Dune]

Terrific vessels! I'm curious what you'll use them for.

[mhaze]

Very,very good.

[Hannes]

Awesome!! Good job!

[Kadri]

Great modeling!

[DocCharly65]

A lovely fleet!

[sboerner]

Thanks, everyone. Here's another one. Working on a test scene incorporating some of these models, which I hope to post soon.

[WAS]

Ah yes, nothing beats fishing and polishing of two jugs of hooch.

[Dune]

Terrific. The pottery stands out, wonderful! One thing; it looks like the plank texture in the boat center needs to be rotated 90º.

[mhaze]

The man in the rowboat is brilliant.

[sboerner]

Thanks everyone. (I'll take a look at that texture, Ulco, good catch.)

Here is a quick (for me, just a few days) test scene that includes a couple of the new boats with a previous model of a Durham boat (right foreground) for comparison. There's more that can be done but I'm going to leave it here. Just wanted to see how the new models looked in an actual scene, and also to try a few things.

[Dune]

Great start!!

[Kadri]

Yes looks good.

[DocCharly65]

Fantastic!