An archive of photos of a model of the Constitution made by its hands for its captain in 1812. Link below.

https://get.google.com/a...YvFWcCSfU0pQ?source=pwa

Also a colour description of Constitutions early years for anyone wishing to build a model based on what she looked like in the early 1800's.

In her early years, *Constitution* was always tarred below the four gun strakes, probably until the 1906 overhaul. As-built in 1797 through 1811, she had yellow ochre (50:50 with white lead -- still a brownish-yellow but not as dull) gun strakes, gun tompions, gallery trim, bowsprit, and lower masts as well as two pin stripes leading aft along the hull from the head rails. The stern had a lampblack ground with white lead, vermilion, medium-light blue, and light yellow ochre trim. The ship-s name is not on the stern in 1812 (see Captain Hull-s model of September 1812 at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, massachusetts). The weather rails were lampblack for all periods. ONLY the four one-inch recessed gun strakes received the contrasting color -- NEVER a broad band of color that I have ever been able to document. The gun strakes were white lead from 1811 through 1815 off and on with yellow ochre (to include a change in the color of the quarter gallery trim and, likely, the gun tompions) and were yellow ochre again from 1815 until the 1817 overhaul when the US Navy was changing to uniform white lead gun strakes in almost all its ships, to include white lead inner bulwarks and waterways from about 1817 as well.

Some interesting differences to how she looks now.

Andy