This collection has been around 5 years in the making. Over that time I've added a couple of ships to any orders I've made. Finally they're all painted ready to sail the seven seas, yarrhh!
(https://i.postimg.cc/14nXyF31/IMG-20210707-180738.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/14nXyF31)
Need to gloss the bases, and add a few flags here and there.
Wow, you've emptied up all shipyards in a thousand miles around!
Seriously though, I love the way you've painted them. Congratulations :)
Lluís
Nice ships. Bring them down for some games Sean
martin :)
Pretty impressive Sean. You must have that Nelson touch.
John
Quote from: Lluis of Minairons on July 07, 2021, 09:55:44 PM
Wow, you've emptied up all shipyards in a thousand miles around!
Seriously though, I love the way you've painted them. Congratulations :)
Lluís
Coming from yourself, Lluis, that is high praise indeed!
Not much in the way of deck crew. I suspose I could add some more. And I do want to add flags. I'm going to now enjoy naming each ship.
sean, bring them to the weekend, the plan is for me to run a game on Saturday
Stewart
Great painting Sean. That's a fine fleet.
Outstanding ! Wow !
I carefully looked at the Hi Res picture you posted : what a work... Like Lluis, I enjoy very much the way you painted them...
Superb !!
Quote from: Sean Clark on July 07, 2021, 11:29:00 PM
Coming from yourself, Lluis, that is high praise indeed!
Not much in the way of deck crew. I suspose I could add some more. And I do want to add flags. I'm going to now enjoy naming each ship.
Please do it. I also do name my ships, at least those with fixed flags, that invariably belong to my early 18th cent. Austro-catalan fleet. Some are bearing historical names (such as my
Sta. Eulàlia,
Sta. Madrona and
St. Francesc de Paula frigates), but I also enjoy inventing names for hypothetical ships such as the xebecs range I've recently started, that are going to bear shark related names:
Marraix (=porbeagle),
Tintorera (=blue shark),
Solraig (=mackerel shark),
Escorçana (=ray), and so on.
Naming your ships is a lot of added fun, because since that very moment they seem to acquire a personality of their own - so that soon you'll find yourself seeking or inventing their captains' names too, customizing each of them and in the end bringing them to life :)
(am I being too imaginative?)
I named mine Black + animal e.g. Black Sheep, Black Pig, etc.
Best wishes,
Martin Buck