HMS Bounty Project

Milton Shupe

Milton Shupe

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The HMS Bounty recently made news when it was sunk during the hurricane. It sparked my interest; I did the research and fell in love with its story, both the original and the replica. I watched two versions of the movie to get a closer look at the replica and decided to give it a shot.

As a filler project, I am working on the HMS Bounty as something new and different. Not a straight piece of lumber on this ship so every part is "hand-made". It will take a while.

I am modeling it to the the Replica HMS Bounty specs.

I look forward to interesting challenges in animations, effects, navigation, and wind response.

I now have the basic exterior shell and standing rigging in place.



Nigel and I intend to do this one to include the first lower deck. Should be interesting to see what can be done with the flight model, the sails, and the VC. :jump: :salute: :running:
 
Beautiful! I am a great fan of tall ships! If you need any support, I'd be glad to pitch in!

Sascha
 
Spent my early years on the water so am looking forward to what you all come up with. Another possibility would be unique sounds like foaming wake under the prow, orders being barked when adjustments are made, groaning timber and straining lines, might be real fun.
 
Sascha66 said:
Beautiful! I am a great fan of tall ships! If you need any support, I'd be glad to pitch in!

Sascha
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aeromed202 said:
Spent my early years on the water so am looking forward to what you all come up with. Another possibility would be unique sounds like foaming wake under the prow, orders being barked when adjustments are made, groaning timber and straining lines, might be real fun.
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Thanks guys. Yes, we have talked about those things and more. It will be interesting to seek out raw sound materials for this. Nigel seems to be an expert at this sort of thing. :)

I am looking forward to the challenges of running rigging, sails, and the flight model. :wiggle:
 
Just to let you know, I have not given up on this project. Just communicated with Hansi about gauge controlled sails for wind direction and speed, and have been looking at hull design software to determine if I need to modify what I have. I have teh standing rigging done and now the challenge of sails and running rigging. Then the top deck and a basic lower deck will be done.

Anyhow with Winter upon us, the XP47J/H projects, the Tigercat revisit, the Harpoon and this project will get serious attention as filler work.

Sasha66 and Aeromed202, thank you for your interest and anything you, or anyone else, wish to contribute is appreciated. I like you ideas regarding sounds so if you can round up any examples, I am certain that Nigel would be pleased to take a listen to them. Thanks
 
HMS Bounty Progress

Ahoy Lads. Making some decent progress on the Bounty with most of the major items completed outside and on deck. Working on finer details and the lower deck now. It will be a while before she is ready for mapping as the lower deck will get quite a bit of detail.

Very interesting project; I have learned a lot about ships and also these tall ships have no straight lines, anywhere. Everything is angled 3 ways, curved and tortured. Makes for challenging modeling.
 
WOW!!!

Thank you Milton. This is something I believe will be heartily welcomed. Hopefully
working in FSX and DX10. I have hoping for a sailing vessel of a reasonably high standard
to sail around the water world of FSX for some time.

Regards Anthin. :jump::jump:
 
Anthin said:
WOW!!!

Thank you Milton. This is something I believe will be heartily welcomed. Hopefully
working in FSX and DX10. I have hoping for a sailing vessel of a reasonably high standard
to sail around the water world of FSX for some time.

Regards Anthin. :jump::jump:
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Screenshots above in FSX/SP2/DX9. We have testers with P3D and DX10 but cannot guarantee everything will be functional as with FS9/FSX/SP2/dx9.

I will invite you to the test team when ready.

EDIT: Couple more screens showing details on deck: windlass, capstan, pumps, flag shack, chocks, air scuttles, etc.

Just started the lower deck and trying to get the framing in place before building walls, rooms, tables, etc.
 
After hours of setting up the steering to tiller pulley/rope arrangement from the original Bounty design, I decided to scrap it for the more simplistic and less obtrusive replica design. This also makes it "animate-able". :)
 
Just finished constructing the lower deck walls and rooms. Another challenge in size, shapes and dimensions with all teh curves and angles at play.

I threw out the bread plant storage in favor of a large Captain's suite where the Nigel and I can share beverages of choice on our long, GPS, waypoint-guided voyages. :)

The rooms will be sparsely appointed excepting of course the Captain's suite. :)
 
Nice work Milton! I have never been a big fan of ocean going vessels in FS9 or FSX tho, I only have 2! Alphasim's A90 Orlenok and the massive LUN Ekranoplan. The Orlenok, (Eaglet, in Russian) was boarded by a lot of bloody pirates and they are running rampant and amok on the high seas, pillaging and plundering every chance they get. I have dispatched the LUN (Dove, in Russian) to hunt them scallywags down and see that they stand trial for their crimes against the Crown.

The HMS Bounty is shaping up to be a real beauty, so I'd be careful mate. She may catch the attention of this motley brood and you might as well be in for the fight of your life to keep her out of their clutches!

Drink up, me hearties.. yo-ho! :very_drunk:

BB686:US-flag:
 
LOL BB. That's why there are important and tasty brews aboard, not to mention the automatic 75MM cannon I brought over from the XA-38.

Here is some added info on the Replica Bounty

This famous replica of the original Bounty was launched in 1961, commissioned by MGM for their 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty. More recently she starred in, amongst numerous others, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.


She was built from the original ship's drawings still on file in the British Admiralty archives. She was constructed in the traditional manner at Smith and Ruhland Shipyard in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. However, all the dimensions were increased by approximately one third to accommodate the large 70 mm cameras used. Though the ship was scheduled to be burned at the end of the film, Marlon Brando threatened to walk off the set, so MGM kept this vessel in service.


She can be licensed for 12 passengers under way, 150 on deck static, and has berths for 49.


Mechanical propulsion is by two John Deere 375hp diesels.


In recent years she has been almost completely rebuilt.


Bounty Replica - Approximate Dimensions
Length Overall 180 ft 54.86m
Length on Deck 120ft 36.58m
Beam 32ft 9.75m
Freeboard 12 ft 3.66m
Draft 13ft 3.96m
Air Draft 115ft 35.05m
Sail Area 10,000 sq ft 929sqm
Displacement 500tons
Registered Gross Tons 412
 
Hurricane91 said:
That's a fantastic subject Milton. The modeling you've done is magnificent.
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Thank you Sir. I have not been able to find any pictures of the Bounty's Captain's quarters but I am finding some period representations of similar ones to base decor on.

This project has been a filler as I am in between things for the aircraft projects. It is an interesting challenge and diversion from the norm.

We now have the Harpoon, Lodestar civvie, Lodestar C-57/60A, and PV-1 Ventura awaiting textures and panel/gauge finalizing.
Nigel hopes to be back in full swing by end of October so maybe we will have something out by end of year.
 
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Lane Street said:
It looks fantastic, Milton.

Out of curiosity, all of those round elements, what's the poly count?

cheers,
Lane
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Lower than I expected but I have focused on staying frugal throughout. Total Poly count now stands at 23K, much less than most of my aircraft. I expect final count to be less than 35K.
 
Hi Milton,

let me know if I can pitch in, I'd love to get my hands on this for some texturing work!

Best wishes,
Sascha
 
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