Diorama of the Battle of Trafalgar!

Modeling Subjects Ships
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I just got wind of this from a post on Facebook. Here is the image that caught my attention:

Here is the website for more info and eye candy:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://dioramadetrafalgar.blogspot.com/&usg=ALkJrhiizunQsCAbVj6DIDY332_7aMJ71g

  • Leelan
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Woo-eee! That is something! Thanks for posting it.

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WHICH SHIPS ???

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I don’t know. I think the Spanish ones since the website is from Spain.

  • Leelan
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Leviathan in the foreground (British), St. Augustine (Spanish) beyond. But the base is a puzzle, as these two are a small part of a giant diorama at 1:50 that includes the Sta. Trinidad and a half dozen other ships and sloops.

At that scale the masts are 5-6 feet tall!

This is a fabulous thing, and worth going through the various sites on the www.

Makes me want to get out the 1:100 Victory and get that upper gun deck on.

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I agree that this diorama is fabulous! I have it bookmarked, and would like to see it in person one of these days. After seeing this the first time I have been thinking about kit bashing one of the ships in my stash to the Santasima Trinidad. Not quite sure how and which one, but one of these days…

Steve

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Yes I agree this is a magnificent diorama, I found it a few years ago…

The ships are listed at the top of the blog

navio santisima Trinidad 144c

navio San Agustin 82c

navio Bucentaure 80c

navio Neptune 98c

navio Leviathan 74c

navio Africa 64c

fragata euralyus 40c

shoneer 12c

Very accurate too…

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I love the models! Are they from kits? Kitbashed? Scratchbuilt?

Bill

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I have seen this Dio on FB also and was blown away with it. The size of it is Huge. I think that you will find that they were all scratchbuilt or converted from mainstream Kits…Cheers mark

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There does appear to be some small inaccuracies with the British ships. One of Nelson’s clever IFF ideas - in addition to the famous yellow and black paint job - was to paint out the iron hoops on the masts of his fleet to further distinguish them from the common practice of black hoops in all navies. You’ll notice no black hoops on the masts of the restored Victory today. This was done in the 1970’s after scholars noted an entry in the Victory’s signal log that showed Nelson yelling at one of his ships to paint out her black hoops to match the rest of the fleet as they formed for battle.

I also don’t see the ensign that Nelson ordered flown from the forestay of every ship on any of the British models - although I may have missed it in my quick scan of the diorama.

An incredible presentation nonetheless!