18th Century Navy Cutter Scenes

Seawolf has created a series of stunning naval images.

seawolf writes:

I'm working on a model of an eighteenth-century naval cutter. That is a 70 feet vessel used for hunting smugglers at the British coastline. These cutters were amongst the fastest vessels of their time.

As reference I use Lennarth Petersson's book “Rigging Period Fore-and -Aft Craft” that provides fine drawings of a cutter.

Rendered with Cycles

The current model has all details of the cutter but only rudimentary materials.

Next steps are:

• refined materials especially for the hull
• wrinkles and creases in the sails
• some automation to adjust the “running rigging” (curves, bones)
• a crew of ~10 sailors with historical clothes
• a realistic ocean environment

Links

• BlenderArtists Thread - Full image set
• Close look at the Navy Cutter Model