#replicas

The Bounty was a British three-master on which one of the most famous mutinies in maritime history took place on 28 April 1789 near Tonga. Since then, the story of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ has repeatedly become the subject of novels, non-fiction books, films, theatre plays and radio plays.

The merchant ship, built in Hull in 1784 and originally used as a coal freighter under the name Bethia, was purchased by the British Admiralty for an expedition to the South Seas. After extensive modifications, it set off on a voyage to Tahiti in 1787 under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh of Spithead to bring cuttings of the breadfruit tree from there to the Antilles. After their exploits, the mutineers settled on the remote island of Pitcairn. Off its coast, they set fire to the Bounty.

The Bounty here, however, was a replica from the 18th century built in 1960 and 1961. It was built especially for the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). The ship was sometimes referred to as HMS Bounty II or variants thereof to distinguish it from the original, but neither the abbreviation HMS, which is reserved for British naval vessels, nor the numbers were part of the ship's name. After being used in several other films, she was used for charter and adventure trips with passengers and as a museum ship.

Unfortunately, she sank off Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012 with the loss of two crew members.

guys….. guys i know im supposed to be working on other things… but it opens!!! thanks party favor lipgloss i got in 2016. i knew you’d come in handy.

um. tumblr is being weird so the shots of it open and front on are gonna be at the end. sorry yall.

: Really i think i got ambitious with this one. Trying to paint value/lights/shadows (crystal, no less) as someone who is not an artist was.. woof. Because the way my medium usually goes… the shadows and lights are just the shadows and lights i choose to photograph it in. But the highlights of glass were really important for this.

: this is one of the cooler things i think ive made. Edgeworth’s office is definitely still my favorite, but idk something about the bottle just presses a button in my head.

: i still suck at taking pictures of my work… i wanted something that was a little reminiscent of the gray evidence-examination screen so. shoutout to this empty black binder i sat it on.

: i also wrestled a lot with myself about the paint job. i like to think im a pretty competent painter, but something about trying to give an object dimension and creating clear segments without just drawing them on was just insanely out of my pay grade. i do say that it’s okay for things to just be “okay” a lot though, so i think ill extend the same grace to myself here.

: that hand freaks me out. it just. doesn’t look right. it looks exactly like my reference- which just doesn’t look right. jail kristoph just for the shape.

now as promised…. and i totally didn’t learn how to remove an image from a post just now…