Thought I'd finally share the pics of my fleets for POE that I've been working on in my spare time. We've been having a lot of fun with these sea actions.
Nothing too historical but flags mostly from real Pirates.
L to R - Schooner 'Diana' (Christopher Condent), Schooner 'Raven' (Thomas Tew), Sloop 'Mabel' (Jean Lafitte ) and Schooner 'Medusa' (Edward Low)
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Brigantine 'Greyhound' (Henry Avery)
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Ex Small Merchant Square Rigger, up-gunned as a Medium Pirate Warship 'Etoile' (Star) flagged for Edward England.
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Large Square Rigger Pirate Warship 'Espadon' (Swordfish), flagged up as John Philips
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Small French Gaff Cutter (Modified PP Sloop) 'Leopard' and Small Spanish Sloop 'Amphitrite' (a Greek Sea Goddess)
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Medium Brigantine Warships. French 'Hermione' and Spanish 'Hercules'
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Large Warship. French 'Princesa'
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Miniairons lovely late Galleon. Mine is called 'Santa Cruz' (Holy Cross). Can't wait for their Portuguese Man of War to be completed (Summer release?). Peter Pig crews and open gun ports added. Gun ports on the larboard side are closed.
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Small French Merchant Square Riggers - 'Sol' and 'Astraea' (Star-Maiden)
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Medium French Fluyt (Flute) Square Riggers 'Fortuna' and 'Despoina' (The Mistress)
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Large French Merchant Square Rigger 'Pleione' (Sailing Queen)
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I've really enjoyed constructing and painting these. I didn't especially enjoy painting ships initially. Not entirely happy with most of them but as first efforts they'll do.
Primed with a grey undercoat, magic washed to show the details prior to painting. Basic colours painted and washed with black magic wash. Highlights then added. Varnished gloss and then matt.
Adding crews, onboard boats, and hatches is fiddly but worth the effort in my opinion. Also adding towed boats does seem to add a certain something visually too.
'Housekeeping' details...
Flags are my own just made from images off Google. I sized them for 7mm and 10mm for flags and 5mm for pennants. All flags are removable and I've made my own flags for England, Dutch, East India Company, Portuguese, Catalan and Americans too allowing the nations portrayed to change.
My ships are based on 2mm MDF to prevent handling and rubbing in storage. I discovered that Citadel 'The Fang' paint colour is a near perfect base match for the Tiny Mats Sea Mat, with Citadel Thunderhawk Blue, Hoeth Blue and Etherium blue waves.
The card ID tags (written in black ink so they're not very noticeable) are cut from blue card from File Dividers available from Sainsbury's Supermarket. Again a near perfect match for the cloth and ships bases.
Large Merchant, Flute and another Sloop to complete before I'm happy. I've then got all the options for the Sea Actions. I have no interest in the land actions so will be stopping there, bar any new releases.
Cheers,
Kev
Kev looks like you have had fun with all the ships. They look excellent. I too am trying to get crews etc on the boat decks to make them look inhabitated. Like you well worth the effort.
I have added rowing boats to all the ships bases.
Excellent looking ships, sir!!! I love your colours palette.
Er... can I have a look at your Minairons large indiaman? In the pictures you've posted I can't see it.
Thanks Lluis. You are my inspiration, though my stuff isn't quite up to your standard.
The only Minairons ship I've got is your lovely Late Galleon. I understood from your blog that a Portuguese Ship of the line in in the pipeline for summer. Can't wait for that.
Please stop posting pictures of wee ships. I have enough ECW and Napoleonics to paint without adding pirate ships to the list. So kindly stop encouraging me!
Great ships, I've assembled mine but have yet to shake a paintbrush at them!
Very nice work, Mr Wally, and thank you for sharing painting details.
Newly painted Large Merchant, sporting Spanish Colours, 'Estrella' ('Star') accompanied by a small modified sailed rowing boat.
Medium Spanish Fluyt (Flute) Square Rigger 'Tigre' (Tiger)
Small Sloop Warship 'Dovewing' (My daughter's favourite cat character in her book series). Flag is of Christopher Moody.
More soon (addicted)
Cheers,
Kev
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Quote from: Fat Wally on April 17, 2019, 09:54:37 AM
More soon (addicted)
Well, there are worse addictions to have - very nice (again)!
Peter Pig have designed a large, abstract resin marker featuring a large clock, with 15mm on a swamped deck, superimposed. I decided to design my own by using images downloaded. I found a depiction of death with scythe and hourglass. I made it double sided and then laminated it. One side the image is shown in black, the obverse in red. The image is turned over each new turn as the image tours the table edge, fulfilling its battle clock mission. This allows players to remember whose turn it was last. I find it particularly useful when playing solo games.
It is recommended that players of Pieces of Eight use toy gold coins to keep track of the wind dice, used to change direction. I decided a nice aesthetic touch would be to store these in a Treasure Chest
I picked up a toy treasure chest cheap for a couple of quid from China on Ebay. It's decorated on the outside with a map....Treasure perhaps?
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That treasure chest is a nice find, Kev? Could I ask how much you had to invest in it?
Nice innit?
A couple of quid of Ebay from China. They do various sizes mate.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wooden-Pirate-Map-Jewellery-Storage-Box-Case-Holder-Vintage-Treasure-Chest-New/132193738098?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Quote from: Fat Wally on April 22, 2019, 11:55:47 AM
Nice innit?
A couple of quid of Ebay from China. They do various sizes mate.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wooden-Pirate-Map-Jewellery-Storage-Box-Case-Holder-Vintage-Treasure-Chest-New/132193738098?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Two quid and post-free - they're getting nicer all the time :)
anyone know where these pictures went?
Interesting! Well, it wasn't me that deleted them. Was it you, Sean? :)
Simon
Did the bigger boys remove them. Maybe Kev himself??
martin :)
In the words of Shaggy, 'it wasn't me.'
Shame, as my painting mojo returns I have half a dozen ships to paint and I need inspiration.
Sean,
It's a shame that Kev's ships have sunk without trace (must have been the pirates...), but much of Lluis's fine work is still showing:
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1113.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1180.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1218.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1276.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1447.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1587.0
https://rulesforcommonman.uk/index.php?topic=1877.0
Simon
QuoteWell, it wasn't me that deleted them. Was it you, Sean?
They will most likely have got hoovered up by the purge we did on overly large attachments a while back
Hi guys.
I don't know what happened.
Here's the link to my Pirates Photobucket Album
https://app.photobucket.com/u/KLowth/a/9251d940-d01c-4ccc-9af2-380d46d90b50
Many thanks, Kev.
You may well have committed the ultimate sin of attaching an image rather than linking to it, and thus fallen foul of the Memory Police (see below).
Good news that the images weren't lost forever.
Simon