03-16-2005, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Current Project: Le hussard, french corvette
Project Status: Painting various part, finishing the hull
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Posts: 151
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Re: What is a model shipwright?
I think ship modeling and miniature in general is a display of craftmanship. In fact u make a copy of a already existing subject.
The Leonardo made the mona lisa, so he's an artist. The fraude that made the falsefication is a craftsman. The engineer that designed the Victory is a shipwright, the modeler making a copy is a craftsman.
Are modelers artists, no i don't think so, being to artistic and soon the border is crossed to fiction. Building a model reguires the ability to have knowledge and understanding in the work from the shipwright, who build the original subject. So you need to be a researcher to interpret the desing and historical information and a craftsman to implement the research from the model.
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