Review of the history of construction 1
This story began about ten years ago and when I went to play football with my children and injured my leg. It happened at the very beginning of the summer. I could only walk with crutches. But I could sit at the table. Therefore, there was no question of what to do. There was a question – what to design and build.
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-01a.jpg)
Now I don’t remember how I got into the competition of modelers on one site with a bad reputation. But then I did not know about it and set to work.
The choice of a prototype for modeling from paper is very important and directly affects the final result. For paper modeling, it is necessary to choose models with a minimum proportion of double curvature surfaces, which are poorly obtained from paper. Even in spite of the skill of the modeler and the original unfold schemes.
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-01c.jpg)
For me, the question of choosing a prototype for the model was not difficult. I had noticed a model of an 18th century French longboat for a long time from the monograph of the French historian of shipbuilding Jean Pierre Paul Boudriot. This is a very beautiful boat on the one hand and is quite feasible for a modeler, since the volume of work is not very large. At least much less than when building a model sailing ship.
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/afrench-longboat-xviii-01a.jpg)
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-02.jpg)
But, the most important thing is that the boat was built from planks, and this is a surface with a single curvature. I myself build boats from time to time
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-000.jpg)
and building a paper boat from “paper planks” is not difficult for me. I decided to make a French longboat of the 18th century.
What was at my disposal? Just a few pictures. Here they are.
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-03a.jpg)
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-05a.jpg)
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-04a.jpg)
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/french-longboat-xviii-07a.jpg)
![](http://www.bnk.sobdelo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-05-05-featuresofnewtec-02.jpg)
And what interesting I immediately understood that these pictures will be enough for building because I already worked with «FreeShip!» software.
To be continue…