[Commercial] Ship of the Line WIP

[Lluís of Minairons]

I'm proud to show you what our upcoming 1/600 scale Ship of the Line looks like, now that all the 3D printing and prototyping work is over. We intended to make a medium ship of the line, rather than any of those huge 1^st or 2^nd rates; so we took as a loose model an early 1700s Russian 58-gun warship good for building a 4^th rate model from it --or even a small 3^rd rate one if imagining her plentiful of bow and stern chasers!

The hull you can see in the following pictures is the ultimate production resin one, while masts and rigging are 3D printed prototypes that are to be taken now to foundry --so the ultimate ones will be white metal.







Here below you can see the fine detail achieved on hull sides, showing the gun ports open.



We have also designed rigging versions for fully unfurled sails, that we shall most probably sell apart, as optional accessories for ship customization.



Here below, our warship can bee seen together with a race-built galleon from Skytrex (scaled at 1/600 to), so as to help having a notion about their respective sizes.



I'll do my best to have a built and painted sample in a short while (with some scratch building work at rigging, if the white metal parts aren't ready in time), so as to take some pictures of it side by side with samples from other brands such as Skytrex and Peter Pig.

Cheers,
Lluís
www.minairons.eu

[Papierschnitzel]

Being a ship builder myself, I have to say I really love this design. Wonderful shapes and detail. I can imagine a whole fleet of these on the table already 

[robh]

Lovely design Lluis.

Sail and mast sets as extras is a great idea, not necessarily to the extent that Rod Langton does in 1/1200 but Battle, Easy Sail and Full sail options would be good.