Info & photos of "Hull Model"? Corné-Paintings - Navy-Homepage?

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Edit: Ups, there have been more answers while I was writing my text - sorry. Missed that!
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Thank you both for the quick answer. I am trying to become Germanys best expert for questions on Constitution [:D]… Your answers help a lot. I noticed the Bluejacket-modell - very likely by another post from you. And I will order at least the plans, before I start my Connie.

I am trying to collect all information I can get via Internet about design and colors of Constitution. I am thinking about a “matrix” in columns the sources/authors, in lines the details focused on seperated in any time period for which I found a describtion for that detail.

This way I hope to find a better possibitity to judge the relayabilty of a proposed design. If several authors say the same - or if their sources are more likely… or not!

A very specific describtion of USS Constitutions design I found also in Internet:

Constitution Colors- A Ray Morton Study
Date: 1999/03/22 18:41
From: “Clayton A. Feldman, MD” clayfeld@best.com
Well, Listees- this is your lucky day if you’re interested in “Old
Ironsides”. Here’s some data from our Constitution guru, Ray Morton, on her
paint colors.
Clay
Clayton A. Feldman MD
List Owner/ Manager
From: Ray Morton raymorton@earthlink.net
Subject: Constitution-s Colors
The question often arises, How was Constitution painted? The
answers seem to be varied and they seldom seem to match primary
documentation. Here is what is known at this writing to me to be the
best color information for Constitution for only some of her
configurations and time periods:
In her early years, Constitution was always tarred below the four gun
strakes, probably until the 1906 overhaul. As-built in 1797 through
1811, she had yellow ochre (50:50 with white lead – still a
brownish-yellow but not as dull) gun strakes, gun tompions, gallery
trim, bowsprit, and lower masts as well as two pin stripes leading aft
along the hull from the head rails. The stern had a lampblack ground
with white lead, vermilion, medium-light blue, and light yellow ochre
trim. The ship-s name is not on the stern in 1812 (see Captain Hull-s
model of September 1812 at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem,
Massachusetts). The weather rails were lampblack for all periods. ONLY
the four one-inch recessed gun strakes received the contrasting color –
NEVER a broad band of color that I have ever been able to document. The
gun strakes were white lead from 1811 through 1815 off and on with
yellow ochre (to include a change in the color of the quarter gallery
trim and, likely, the gun tompions) and were yellow ochre again from
1815 until the 1817 overhaul when the US Navy was changing to uniform
white lead gun strakes in almost all its ships, to include white lead
inner bulwarks and waterways from about 1817 as well.

From July 1844 through 14 May 1845, Constitution had a white lead hull
with vermilion gun strakes. In May 1845, she was repainted the white on
black color scheme. Her configuraton at that time was very close to the
Brandywine first class frigates, especially her bow treatment.
The gun port lids were always lampblack on all six surfaces (an
exception might have been the vermilion gun strake period, though I
doubt it). The gun deck gun port lids were NOT hinged until about the
American Civil War but, prior to that time, were completely removed and
sent below when exercising the gun deck guns – no gun port lids were
provided in the spar deck, ever. The gun deck gun port lids were split
in half horizontally in 1804 but were still NOT hinged, with some minor
exceptions to this up forward.
The Bowsprit and lower masts were woolded until 1809 and the woolding
was lampblack (rigging tarred). Until 1809 the fighting tops and the
doublings were lampblack. ALL of the yards were blackened (coal
tarred), just like the bends – to include the yard arms – as well as
the lower studding-sail booms, spanker boom, and gaff. After 1809, the
fighting tops (except for their railings and stanchions) and the
doublings were white lead. There was NO white at the mast heads/trucks.
The upper masts were left bright (actually oiled) so that their
remaining strength could be determined from their color. Since upper
masts were replaced often, they would each be a different color from
each of the other upper mast spars. The same is true for the jib boom
and the flying jib boom. Until 1809, Constitution had a single
lampblack martingale – and a white lead double dolphin striker after

1809. The doublings for the jib spars were lampblack until 1809 when
      they were painted white lead. The sails were also replaced and patched,
      as was the rigging, and none of these items would have been an overall
      same color nor exactly match any of their sister components.
      The rigging included hemp, hide, and flax cordage (plus horsehair in the
      limber) and was one-stranded through six-stranded, plus the
      nine-stranded cables and hawsers. Both left-handed and right-handed
      rope was used as well as water-laid and plain-laid. Some ropes were
      reverse-laid and others were slack-laid – at least one case combines
      both slack/reverse-laid. I know that this opens many rigging questions
      but the answers would be about 700 to 1000 pages long with a few hundred
      drawings. Constitution followed Brady-s Kedge Anchor, AMERICAN
      rigging practice, and NOT Lever, Steele, Biddlecomb, Lees, Lavry, et
      al., which describe BRITISH rigging practice.
      The decks exposed to the weather would have been grayed to a depth much
      beyond just surface discoloration – holy stoning would NOT normally
      have removed enough wood to make the decks white. The idea of holy
      stoning was to remove only the dirt and rigging tar from the deck – not
      the wood. The gun and spar decks were longleaf yellow pine, except
      under the guns where they were white oak. The two woods weather in
      color differently. The tarring of the deck paying was most likely dark
      chocolate brown and NOT black.
      After 1809, the upper studding-sail booms were lampblack (probably
      tar-blackened) from the tip of the yard arm outboard, when housed, and
      from the tip of the yardarm inboard, when extended. The in-between
      portion was white lead. Prior to 1809, the upper studding-sail booms
      appear to have been completely blackened. The spanker boom was white
      lead outboard the taffrail and black inboard after 1809 and all black
      before 1809 – the gaff was always black. After about 1809, a mizzen
      trysail (or snow) mast was installed, which was white lead.
      Gun carriages were terra cotta (the brownish boxcar red) except for
      1804-1809 when the carriages were yellow the color of butter with
      lampblack gun tubes, iron fittings, and trucks. After 1845, or so, many
      of the gun carriages were lampblack and all were most likely lampblack
      upon entering the American Civil War era and afterwards.
      Of the 500+ individual guns that have been in Constitution, of
      fifty-one different types, they were all smooth to the touch except for
      one type, which I have yet to see modeled. They had a modified varnish
      coating that produced a satin-gloss (satin for a model) that was
      pigmented with lampblack. The guns were normally given a fresh water
      wash each morning and then rubbed down with an oily rag. Tompions
      normally matched the gun strake color and were not embellished with
      gawdy stars, etc. Constitution was, and is, a warship – NOT a circus
      float…!
      The spar deck inner bulkhead (only a quarter deck and forecastle with an
      open waist until about 1804 or 1809 – no spar deck, per se, until that
      time) arguably was vermilion as well as the waterway (a red-orange
      scarlet color, just like the British used – but NEVER a red) as the
      gun sills are known to have been vermilion from 1797-1804. 1804-1809
      the sills appear to have been lampblack from then on and the inner
      bulkhead and waterway butter-yellow. After 1809, the inner bulkhead and
      waterway were dark green (about that of Humbrol #149, which needs to be
      scaled and weathered) still retaining the lampblack gun port sills.
      After 1817, the inner bulkhead and waterway were, most likely, white
      lead with lampblack gun port sills.
      Deck furniture was likely white lead, with bright pin rails, as-built –
      and butter-yellow or dark green to match the changes in the inner
      bulwark-s color changes between 1804 and 1817. I have not yet
      determined the deck furniture color after the 1817 overhaul from primary
      documentation. Belaying pins were iron and, if painted, would likely
      have been hot coal tarred.
      Ship-s small boats were overall white lead externally, except they were
      lampblack between about 1835 and 1845. The black paint did not work
      well at all on the ship-s small boats and was replaced with white lead
      about 1845 throughout the US Navy. The white boats typically had a
      single distinguishing color on the sheer strake. Ship-s small boat
      painting is, indeed, a very large subject area by itself.
      A good color approximation of the red and the blue in the wool ensigns,
      pennants, and flags for Constitution is: Humbrol #153 with a slight
      amount of Humbrol #73 wine added for the Madder Root Red and Humbrol
      #104 made a little lighter (with a touch of Humbrol #34 white) and a
      bit grayer for the Indigo Blue – until about World War One when
      bright synthetic dyestuffs started being used in US Navy flags. The
      white in flags was undyed white wool – an off-white color (a touch of
      Humbrol #71 linen in Humbrol #34 seems to work well). Other flag
      colors and flags for Constitution are much larger subjects.
      Try to avoid using straight black and straight white in a model – they
      are too stark for scale work and render a toy-like appearance. Use a
      very dark gray and an off-white (antique white), respectively.
      Don-t use the present real Constitution to determine the
      configuration, or painting, of the historic Constitution for ANY
      historic period, except 1932, 1960, 1976, or 1996, if then. Presently,
      the real Constitution is NOT in a War of 1812 configuration as federal
      law mandates – she-s slowly on her way towards such a configuration,
      assuming she quits stumbling over the non-1812 fantasized overhaul
      configuration of 1932.
      If anyone has information contrary to what has been presented here from
      PRIMARY documentation (official US Navy documents, journal entries of
      Constitution crew members only writing about what was occurring that
      day, etc. – but NOT ANYTHING from the 160+ books on Constitution as I
      have read and own ALL of them and they are mostly incorrect on the
      technical issues and all of them seem to quote the same erroneous 1817
      British author without the benefit of research or checking of facts), I
      would appreciate the EXACT CITATION of such contrary information down to
      the page number and library/archive/museum call number, address, and
      phone number.
      I am in the process of finishing several books on the Age of Sail,
      mostly about Constitution. The incomplete and brief information
      presented here is extracted from those books and is copyrighted by me.
      This information will be expanded somewhat in my upcoming three-part
      article on Building a Better Model of Constitution for the Nautical
      Research Journal starting with the Fall-or-Winter 1999 issue. I am
      giving permission to Dr. Clay Feldman that this information can be
      posted on the Ships-in-Scale web site for personal use only.
      Regards,
      Ray Morton

Does anyone know who Ray Morton is? Where did he get his information? Any idea?