sorry to intrude, but i saw your post in the aubreyad tag about wanting to learn to draw tall ships and i wanted to share my secret weapon resource with you!! (https://rolandsmodelshipbuilding.com/) is a blog full of age of sail information & step by step model ship building posts, and specifically there's a super long and detailed series of updates during the building of model hms surprise! (https://rolandsmodelshipbuilding.com/hms-surprise/) and if you look around the website there's so much more information that lets you get up close and personal! again i'm sorry if this is a weird overstep or anything i just felt like i had discovered hidden treasure upon finding that blog and am always jumping at the chance to share it :)
No weird overstep at all. This is really helpful indeed!