Pirate Ships....What do you use?

[Westfalia Chris]

Oh my! That VG ship ist superb, Pappa Midnight! Had seen it in an advert in an  old Wargames Illustrated, but only as line art... just might need a jib, but that´s just me as a real-life sports sailor talking. Handling would be much easier just like it is.

I usually can´t be bothered with available kits, as they usually don´t match my rather specific taste, so for any setting, I usually build my own. Recently, I built  a smallish Brig for "Golden Age of Piracy Games", the "Lady Luck", feared vessel of the infamous Captain Caroline Hummingbird:





More Pics:

http://www.dminis.com/scratchbuilder_christian/images.html?galleryId=1735&from=Swashbucklers

[Operator5]

That's scratchbuilt!  

Nice job Chris!

[fatgoblin]

wow chris, thats hardcore cool!

[Pappa Midnight]

Wow,
You guys have some seriously cool toys!
Thanks for the comments about my humble ship ( compared to the outstanding work I've seen here!!)
It always amazes me what talent there is out there, whether it's painting skills or scratchbuilding it blows me away!
Thanks for all the replies and some SERIOUS EYECANDY! I can see myself stealing..........I mean getting inspiration from them ::

Regards
PM

[Malamute]

Folks, This is exactly what I like about this Forum. The fact that everyday you can see photos of superb models, miniatures etc from everybodies collections.

I love seeing other peoples stuff!  :love:

[Westfalia Chris]

Ditto, never would have thought to actually see the VG ship "in the flesh"... err... resin.

Yay for the Internet!

[postal]

very nice.

[twrchtrwyth]

[The Angle]

Here are some sailing ship plans you can grab off the web. You may need to change the scale for some of them. The first one, for example, is meant to be made from a refrigerator box and is big enough for kids to actually play in! It can just as easily be made from a shoebox.

Really simple -- http://tinyurl.com/3ttrhn
Kinda simple -- http://tinyurl.com/44dsxf
Not so much simple -- http://tinyurl.com/34srjd

Steve

[Le matou rouge]

Thanks for the links, Steve !
The third one seems interesting, but what else can we wait from Auntie...

meow,
Matt

[Maksim-Smelchak]

Hi Papa Midnight,

I love your work and your horror web group so much that I have you linked from my blog!

I have lots of pirate posts here including shot of my some of my ships:

http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/search/label/Pirates

I also have a Photobucket album here with lots of pirate goodness!

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f23/Maksim-Smelchak/28mm_Pirates/

BUT... I haven't photographed anything but a small portion of my collection, which much be remedied!

Great ship...

*** Where did your figurehead come from? ***

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

[Admiral Benbow]

I'm currently working on a resin pirate ship from a company named "Wargames Ruins" which is no longer in business today (nomen est omen?  :wink: )

As building a resin ship is not everybody's cup of tea, I decided to do some work-in-progress pics and publish them with some comments on my website. Here are the teasers:

From start ...



through finishing the ship's hull ...



over to the details:



Next bunch of photos after building the masts, then painting, sails and some rigging at the end.

But maybe some more weeks will be needed ...  :mrgreen:

[flapjack52]

Looks amazing already