Paddleducks
General => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: socratissh99 on March 13, 2016, 07:06:53 AM
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I want to thank you for accepting me as a new member and to excuse any ill-treatment of English language.
My name is Socratis Chaniotakis, age 69, retired pharmacist, living in Heraklion Crete, Greece.
I make models for some years now, mostly traditional Greek sail boats (19th-20thc.) and historical places.
The project I am working now for the Historical Museum of Crete ((www.historical-museum.gr) is to collect historical and constructional data of a paddle steamer named “Enosis” and make a presentation of her story and an -as accurate, detailed and documented as possible- static model of her.
The ship is none else than the well known (I think) in modelers community Confederate blockade runner CSS“Owl”.
(see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Owl), renamed “Enosis” when participated -also as a blockade runner- in Cretan Revolts 1866-69 (Two pictures of the ship are avaible, one is an etching published 1869, the second of the actual ship dated December 1868, see My Images No: 1 Enosis/Owl and No: 2 Enosis/Owl)
I think I will need help and opinions from fellow paddlers on matters such as coloring, deck fittings details, ect.
If, for example, someone has seen the models of Hope, Banshee and Colonel Lamb in Liverpool museums or the Colonel Lamb of Royal Scottish museum in Edinburgh and/or the one in South Kensington Science museum and can provide color information -or even better- colored pictures, it will be of great help.
Stopping spending your time, I thank you again.
socratissh99