First, the challenge demanded a ship for the Pirate Ladies from my last post, which I have obliged! This is a little tub from Printable Scenery, which I had my friend with an FDM printer scale up slightly and get rocking! Boy howdy, this is different from painting resin printed stuff. That said, I assembled some basic masts and rigging, which give off a taste of realism while still leaving the decks unencumbered enough to be played on. I have loads of cannon already painted, so I haven’t included them, but I may pull out the whole collection next time I finish some pirates, just so you folks can get a taste, and they’ll surely be included!
There should be more than enough room aboard for my 11 pirate ladies, so that’s nice. In terms of size for scoring, the hull alone is almost a foot long, and 5ish inches across. The masts obviously extend far over the 6inch mark, so I figured somewhere between one and two boxes might work, maybe an even 30pts? For my time investment, I’d probably be better off painting six 28mm folks, but this was a fun aside!
Next, I’m taking part in a bi-weekly painting stream over on YouTube on the ‘Not Jay’s Tabletop Gaming’ channel, and this Saturday evening’s stream(the first couple hours) focused on WWII Royal Navy vessels. I painted up HMS Rodney, HMS Roberts, and a pair of destroyers! These are all 3D printed models from Ghukek’s Miniatures scaled up to approximately 1/1200, as always, for floor-style games!
First, HMS Roberts! This relatively small vessel punches high above its weight class with a huge 15” twin turret! It’s shallow draft, comparatively light armor, and slow speed make it most suited for shore bombardment type work, but anything getting hit but a 15” shell will wish it had picked a different fight.
Next, a pair of destroyers! The classes are written on the underside of the hulls, but I wasn’t smart enough to add them to my notes, so at the time of posting, I’m not sure, but the ship on the left appears to be a J-class or later, while the ship on the right sports the older style of single gun mounts, maybe an I-class or so? Let me know what you think!
Great looking pirate ship and splendid ww2 Royal navy ships!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Excellent set of ships
ReplyDeleteNice ships, Andrew! :)
ReplyDeleteNice work all around I realy like the look of HMS Nelson! The Pirate cutter is excellent
ReplyDeleteNice armada. Really like the brig at the top.
ReplyDeleteThe WW2 ones are chunky scuplts but you’ve done a fine job on them. As for identification, the destroyer with single guns could be any G-I class, but the other is likely an N class given that her rear mount faces aft (On J&K classes it faced forward). It was Nelson’s sister Rodney which fought the Bismarck.
Excellent work on all the watery stuff Andrew
ReplyDeleteThe pirate ship is excellent, Andrew! I like the Royal Navy squadron too, but I must disagree about Nelson vs the French ships. Nelson has a strangely unbalanced silhouette, one would fear that her bow would come up above the water when making any kind of speed, like a speedboat! Still, your representation of her is great!
ReplyDeleteGreat windy boat
ReplyDeleteA great naval entry, Andrew! Love the pirate ladies' ride.
ReplyDeleteGreat entry Andrew.
ReplyDeleteNice work, Andrew! The WW2 ships look very fine especially the decking on Nelson. I really like the pirate ship for the female crew, that is a nice wooden ship for the Iron ladies! ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat entry Andrew, the pirate ship steals the show though!
ReplyDeleteCheers
Matt
Lovely rigging!
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