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HMS Indefatigable 1794 Kit Scale 1:64
HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate
ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She
was also the first to carry that name in the Royal Navy. She was built as a
ship-of-the-line, but most of her active service took place after her conversion
to a 44-gun razee frigate. She had a long career under several distinguished
commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic
Wars. She took some 27 prizes, alone or in company, and the Admiralty authorised
the issue of four clasps to the Naval General Service Medal in 1847 to any
surviving members of her crews from the respective actions.
Indefatigable
was finally paid off in 1815. She was broken up at Sheerness in August 1816.
S. Forester chose Indefatigable under Pellew as the ship on which his
fictional hero Horatio Hornblower spent most of his time as a midshipman in the
novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. The Spanish flotilla incident is referred to by
Forester in the novel Hornblower and the Hotspur. Indefatigable is featured even
more prominently in the Hornblower television series. Patrick O’Brian
fictionalises this Spanish Flotilla incident in Post Captain, the second of his
Aubrey–Maturin series of novels. In this novel, Captain Aubrey is in temporary
command of HMS Lively, one of the other ships in the British squadron under the
command of Moore. Also mentioned in “The Yellow Admiral” with reference to being
cut down from a two-decker.
Kit includes:
Laser
cut parts in MDF, and clear acetate for gallery windows. All visible parts are
laser cut in pear wood sheet.
51 laser cut sheets, with 37 sheets being in
pearwood
Laser cut pear wood ladders and gratings included as standard.
Engraved ply sub decks to aid planking.
High quality Red Alder supplied for
deck planking.
All of the areas at and above deck level are pre-cut.
6
sheets of photo etched brass, in three different thicknesses.
High resolution
3D-printed cannon and carronade barrels (black) along with black acrylic cannon
balls of the correct diameter.
Gun port positions built into frame and inner
bulwarks cut to fit those positions.
Double planked hull in limewood for
first planking and pear wood for second planking.
Walnut dowel for mast and
yards.
Multiple sizes of both black and natural rigging thread along with all
necessary blocks and deadeyes.
The full colour instruction manual is our most
comprehensive yet, along with THIRTY-ONE plan sheets which include all masting
and rigging drawings.
Highly detailed laser-cut and engraved stern decoration
and 3D-printed Indefatigable figurehead.
3D-printed lanterns for stern, with
glazing.
Five highly detailed ship’s boats in pear wood.
Stern cabins with
chequerboard-engraved floor and a full suite of furniture!
Fine black chain
for rudder.
Highly detailed 3D-printed ship’s stove with brick plinth.
Pellew figure included.
Each Indefatigable kit takes 15 full hours to
produce.
Tecnical Data
Scale 1:64
Length Overall 1340mm
Hull Length 880mm
Height Overall 882mm
Width Overall 500mm
Experience level assembly (1=very easy ... 5=experts only) | |
5 Expert | ***** |
Category | |
Static model | |
Dimensions | |
Scale | 1:64 |
Total length | 1340 mm |
Beam | 500 mm |
Height | 882 mm |
Length of hull | 880 mm |
Design | |
Materials hull | Holz |
Materials superstructure | Holz |
Hull design | Kiel auf Spanten |
Planking | Doppelt |
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