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Offline Munindk

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2019, 06:29:17 AM »
I've seen people use small wooden buttons for rigging bits.

Offline PhilB

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2019, 11:17:59 AM »
Well, I still haven't done the rigging, and now it'll have to wait for December/January at the earliest. But I did want to post some further pics.

The first one is at my workbench, with a freshly painted cohort of Foundry pirates. The second one is from a dockside scene I set up for my first published Pathfinder Second Edition adventure, Pirates and Plunder, One Night at the Crooked Hand.
« Last Edit: October 26, 2019, 11:20:48 AM by PhilB »

Offline Neldoreth

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2019, 06:16:27 PM »
Looks great, inspiring!

Thanks
n

Offline CookAndrewB

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2019, 02:58:35 PM »
That looks terrific. Really well done.

Offline Bloggard

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2019, 04:27:39 PM »
looking good.
you go to your local park to take the outdoors pics? (actually I guess it's your garden, but it looks park-sized to me!).

Offline PhilB

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2019, 11:26:54 PM »
Yes, it's my backyard in central France, and it's quite large. 6-7 hours to mow the whole thing with a riding lawnmower. <g>

Pictures in my basement, where the painting actually takes place, don't have nearly as nice a background. Sometimes I use black or grey-painted boards to obscure the haphazard shelving down there, but good weather in spring or summer makes for a far better backdrop.

I'm in a real quandary about doing rigging. It'll make the ship a lot harder to transport, and we rarely play at my house. In its current state, I can remove the mast and foredeck and put the ship in the top part of a box from reams of paper, that I also use to transport other oversized items. IF I do the rigging, even in a reduced abstracted format, the mast will become fixed and it'll take a big box to transport, and make the whole thing a lot more fragile.

The more I think about it, the more I've concluded that the ship is as finished as it's going to get.

Thoughts?

Also, many thanks to Daeothar whose suggestion of toothpicks for the railings was spot on. It would've been hell to try to make my own railing pieces on a makeshift lathe, and the pre-sculpted toothpicks worked like a charm. Got a big box of them off Amazon for a pittance.

Next I've got to make at least a second ship for cool boarding actions. I'm undecided whether to go bigger or smaller.
« Last Edit: November 09, 2019, 11:31:00 PM by PhilB »

Offline dampfpanzerwagon

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Re: A scratchbuilt pirate ship (work in progress)
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2019, 11:59:50 PM »
Very nice. Thank you for posting the images.

Tony