Best wishes for your health!!!
Hello Barry,
I' m sorry for your bad health.
I hope you recover soon, for your family and for the benefit of the whole modeling community.
Your model of the Black Swan Sloop is as excellent as the other models of yours.
I have to say this once, for me you are one of the greatest designers in the whole modeling community.
For me you are an ideal in computer designed models and i hope i become as good in blender as your are today in metasequoia and pepakura.
I admire your courage of designing even big projects as the Richelieu, the Tarrawa and the Enterprise.
But back to your model of the Black Swan.
It is one of the lesser known work horses of the royal navy.
For me it is in fact not of personal memory ( i' m too young for that), but my father sailed on the Graf Spee (ex HMS Flamingo) to South America in the early sixties.
During christmas Break i digitized most of the photos he had taken during this trip.
Therefore this class has got familiar to me.
My father has Alzheimer and those photos of his ship brought him back flashes of memory.
Is there any chance that you could design a "german" black swan Sloop (in the beginning of of the Bundesmarine this class has formed the backbone of the fleet beside the american fletchers).
Or do you have a line plane of the ship, so that i could try to do it?
Get well soon!!
Yours sincerly
Thomas