Thursday 11 March 2021

AdamC: Ships and Brigs (60 points)

 


Here we have two ships, an English Frigate and an American Sloop of War in company with 3 Brigs.

The Frigate is a 3D print given to me by my friend Arofan who has provided me with many hulls form his ship yard. 

I have christened her the HMS Lydia Hornblower's 36 gun frigate from "Beat to Quarters" (or Happy Return) 

The sloop is an American ship built form a pair of Warlord brigs as you have seen me do before. 

She can work for USS Wasp or USS Peacock or any other  US sloop of war of that period. 

The Three Brigs are standard builds from Warlord.  Two of them have no flags currently but carry barktan sails (red) a system used to preserve sails.  They will make excellent merchants or pirates as the red sails do seem a bit piratical.

I don't believe it was common on Warships but merchants certainly used it (especially in the far east). 

The final Brig has British Merchant colors.
Point the Brigs are worth 10 points apiece and the Frigate and Sloop are both good for 15 each for a total of 60 points, pluse and additions the minions should see fit to add. 

6 comments:

  1. Hi. For your information the British Naval Flag Officers were in three Squadrons. Red, White and Blue. A ship flew the Ensign and Pennant in the colour of their Commanding Admiral. So the Pennant and Ensign should be the same colour. See here for details: http://www.larsonweb.com/Transfer/Miniatures/Sail/NAPSHIPS.htm

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  2. nice work on those Adam

    cheers
    Matt

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  3. Your shipyards are at full pace Adam, nice work all around.

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  4. Nice work,cranking them out!
    Best Iain

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