Blood & Plunder: Building a port

[Hunter776]

Your burgeoning port town is lovely.

I am literally sitting here right now plotting how I could attempt to land there, take the emplacement, and sack the town!

Won't be easy.

[Hitman]

Thanks for the gibbet tutorial. I will have to try making that as I was trying to figure out what to use. Your town, and other items for your port look fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Poiter50]

Sail in, looking like a merchantman, sneak out at night and take the bastion while your piratical friends sail in to reinforce you. 

[Hunter776]

Henry Morgan, is that you?

[Malamute]

So pleased to see you back at what you do best, building and presenting LAF worthy eye candy.

 Keep it coming!

[Jeff965]

Crikey, I can remember reading your stuff on Sharp Practice in India and being very inspired. Great to see you back in the saddle and looking forward to more

[Furt]

So pleased to see you back at what you do best, building and presenting LAF worthy eye candy.

Too kind Nick - it has been too long mate - but this place still feels like home  

Crikey, I can remember reading your stuff on Sharp Practice in India and being very inspired. Great to see you back in the saddle and looking forward to more

Thanks Jeff, alas I haven't visited Indostan in (oh my God!!!) three years!  

[manatic]

Beautiful work on this, truly inspiring. Now to get a cake embosser...

[rumacara]

Very well done Frank.
Welcome back.
Keep it coming.

[FifteensAway]

Sirrah,

While I agree your buildings don't look 'Spanish' I disagree that they don't look Caribbean.  I could see something like that in Curacao or some other places, wherever there is Dutch or French influence.

And you are reminding me of my own little project, a pentagonal star fort with a lower elevation substantial outwork in significant disrepair (courtesy of a couple of damaged walls) - an adaptation project of Stone Mountains 15 mm fort.  I figure to put the main fort atop a modest cliff and the outwork abutting close by and closer to the sea.  The outwork idea came from replacing the stock bastions with the optional Spanish tower bastions, need to order another gate piece before much progress, however.  Or maybe I'll get brave and scratch that portion of the project!   

And, as others say, nice work.  I shall be watching for further inspiration.

[Furt]

Thanks all 

Very well done Frank.
Welcome back.
Keep it coming.

Thanks Rui, it is nice to be doing some modelling again. 

While I agree your buildings don't look 'Spanish' I disagree that they don't look Caribbean.  I could see something like that in Curacao or some other places, wherever there is Dutch or French influence.

Thanks for that Fifteens, was thinking that myself, although this rendition of Blood & Plunder is set in the mid to late 17th century, I do wonder if Curacao would have been established?

[FifteensAway]

Hmm, made me wonder, so I checked.  Copy and paste from Wikipedia re: Netherlands colony establishments in the New World:

Sint Maarten in 1618
Bonaire in 1634
Curaçao in 1634
Sint Eustatius in 1636
Aruba in 1637
Saba in 1640
Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Jost van Dyke before 1640

Happy to help - but next batch of research may involve a dispatch of Guilders in my direction. 

[Furt]

Hmm, made me wonder, so I checked.  Copy and paste from Wikipedia re: Netherlands colony establishments in the New World:

Sint Maarten in 1618
Bonaire in 1634
Curaçao in 1634
Sint Eustatius in 1636
Aruba in 1637
Saba in 1640
Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Jost van Dyke before 1640

Happy to help - but next batch of research may involve a dispatch of Guilders in my direction. 

Well there you go - thanks. And as for the Guilders, sure I'll pay ya, but I'll only be robbing them back. 

[FifteensAway]

Furt, I say we settle this like gentlemen wargamers.  My fleet and pirates meet up with your fleet and pirates across a gaming table.  Now, I only have 17 ships and a few small schooners and only about 1500 painted armed folk in my piratical collection.  That includes rather a number of distracting distaff lassess.  Where shall that lot meet up with yours?

 

But a modest view of a few - http://carobbeansea.blogspot.com/2011/11/

Scroll thee down the page ya' lubber!

[Furt]

Ok - u win!!