A papercraft ship!!!

[Lluis of Minairons]

Some time ago, a gaming mate told me about War Artisan's Workshop and their 1/300 to 1/600 sail ships ranges, and showed me an assembled sample he had downloaded.

I then knew I wouldn't resist for too long --as certainly has happened, a couple of months ago.

I downloaded a 1/600 man-of-war free sample for a try. Just for caution, I printed the model twice on my home printer, using common self-adhesive paper; and later stuck it onto a cardstock sheet. From there on, it was a matter of following the enclosed instructions the best I could, and...



Here I must say that, rather than building masts and rigging according to the instructions, I preferred to use those of a plastic model kit --in the certainty they would look quite better than if made from wire and paper... and also would hopefully distract eventual watchers' attention toward them, instead of the papercraft hull



Little paint work was required on the hull itself; basically masking paper edges and changing the stern a bit.
Here below you have my brand new man-of-war in action --seemingly exchanging some rough words with a Spanish warship from PP.
Soccer arguing, I wonder?



Cheers,
Lluís

[martin goddard]

Very nice.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's very effective, Lluis!

[Fat Wally]

WOW...That's actually really quite the job.