Sunday, August 10th, 2025: Head and companion gratings got painted a lighter, more oak looking color to try and be consistant over the model.

8/16: I cut back the head gratings as they wouldn't move past the bowsprit no matter how I tried.

8/17: Painted the inboard side of the port-side hammocks.

A while back the Naval Academy had the figurehead of the Macedonian scanned so a reproduction could be made and the original brought indoors and conserved. Constellation's head ornamentation's all reen removed for some time now for basically the same reason, and by the same scanning company as the Naval Academy used. The scanned files of the ship's billet-head and trail-boards are visible on Sketchfab, though not available to download.

I did take the best screen-shots I could manage, and as they're shaded relief images, I sent them through SCULPTOK which generates STLs from images or hightmaps.

Starting with the trail-boards, I loaded the STL into Blender and used it's Decimate add-on to reduce the 770k faces down to about 200k, something that will fit into Anim8or where I know what I'm doing, sort-a.

I've started getting the 3D model down to just the carvings, and removing the scanned in backer-board. The sides aren't mirror images of each other, each is a little different than the other side. I don't know if they were always that way, or repair work over the years made them different.

Once I have the carvings isolated and their edges cleaned up, I'll use parts from either side to fill in what's missing on the other side. I'll mount them on a new backer that will include the moldings that frame it all, with a notch to attach the billet-head.