Thanks for posting those. She is truly a thing of beauty. I haven’t been on board since I was about seven, which is a shame because I live in Boston. I’ve got to get over to Charlestown.
I know she was not back in her berth when I was up in Boston in November.
Was a bit of a bum trip for me, as I had an entire day to kill before flying back to DFW. Was in Hull, and drove past USS Salem 6 or 7 times, but she’s only open on weekends. Went down to Fall River, but the city had the water cut off, so none of the ships in Battleship cove were open. Not a total waste as I know folks over at SWO school, so we had lunch in Providence to offend the bluebloods
Work might send me back in April, be worth the tolls to go around to Charlestown (and the subsequent hassle to get to Logan afterwards).
The “USS Constitution live cam” provides almost constant, new images of her during the current restoration. There’s a camera on the museum adjacent to the ship, and it refreshes every twenty minutes. Here’s the link: https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/restoration/constitution-cam/ .
Drop me a PM if April trip is a go and you have free time from your itinerary. By the by TF Green is an hour from Boston and MUCH easier to get in and out of.
Will have to see. AA goes directly from DFW to Boston about 8 times a day; other destinations not so much. Job sites are about an hour out of Logan; or, about an hour due north of Newport. None of which much matters if I have to go to Hull.
On my CAD monitor (LED .25 dot pitch_ the color is a sort of pea green, not quite feldgrau. But, on my for-video monitor (LCD .28 dot pitch 1080p) I’m getting more of a brighter green, almost a zinc chromate.
Note that the upper strikes of copper are painted red. I guess the idea was that genuinely weathered copper would look bad to the public.
To my notion it would make more sense to do it the other way around: leave the copper bare where the public can see it, and paint the bottom (which the public can’t see) with modern anti-fouling paint.
You are on my wavelength as far as the preservation is concerned. The paint represents no permanent change to the fabric of the ship and preserves it too. If all it did was was add one more year to the span between drydocking, that would be a gain, I’m thinking. But, I was more thinking of how to model what we can see. Was think to get a range of answers across a number of video platforms., but without getting into absolute formulae, e.g. n parts thalo green to x parts cad yellow, shaded with y parts black.
