HMS Ontario has been completed! She's been created from the original drawings and from video information from the wreck. The model is carrying spare fore and main top-masts on crutches, also functioning as railings at the waist. Notice also the absence of the railing on the main-top as taken from the wreck. She's a tiller steered two-masted Great Lakes snow. A snow differing from a brig in that she has a trysail mast (pole) just behind the mainmast.
Image of HMS Ontario model

Even though her boat appears to have been towed at the time she went down, the model has her clinker-built boat safely stowed on deck.
Model tender for HMS Ontario
Some of her rigging and forecastle (or fo'c'sle) details such as the  belfry and windlass shown below. 
deck view of model
The image below shows a close-up of the bows of the model showing the anchors, bowsprit, bumkins, catheads  and headrails.  Two seats-of-ease (toilets) are also included but hard to discern in this image.
Sometimes I like to create an image composition of the model into a 'real' setting. The  "lake-trial"  image below gives me some indication as to how realistic or unrealistic the model would appear when pretending to be the real thing. A reality check, if you will! Since I'm trying to create a smaller version of the vessel, not necessarily a model, this really helps me to determine whether I'm succeeding or not, and where improvements can and should be made in the future.
Image of HMS Ontario model
She has been completed and will be off to the client in December. The design of HMS Indefatigable and the USS Niagara should also be finished by then and their construction should be on the way in January.
HMS Ontario - Great Lakes snow of 1779 (brig-sloop)


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