Kev's POE Ships

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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 

[Leslie BT]

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.

[Lluis of Minairons]

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.

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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.