A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. No, seriously. HMS Victory in oak.

[aletheiafelinea]

Ian G. Brennan carved HMS Victory from an oak timber being formerly a part of the original ship.
Not just a glued model. A sculpture. The keel, sails, rigging, armament.









See more photos and read the story of the carving here: http://www.victorysculpture.com/

*goes away to crosspost on anything_aos*

Comments

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

I keep being reminded of this because there is a campaign
Quite useful. It's a stupid stereotype that women remember birthdays and anniversaries' dates and men don't. I need to have noted almost everything and I keep forgetting anyway. Once, in work, I wrote down the current date, then I stared at it and thought 'Hm, it rings some bell, what could it be... Ooh! My birthday!'
*cough* *g*

I have a bicentenary coin with it on (a birthday present).
I like it! A nice idea. *runs off to check 'own' historical events*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I don't usually forget dates for my immediate family. Anything else needs a note somewhere. What I do manage to do is to lose track of the current date so that for example this week's equinox came as a big surprise! So I'm quite capable of forgetting a birthday, not because I don't remember what date the birthday is but because I have no idea that that date is today...