AKULA’s Game of Thrones - pg64 back from the dead

[AKULA]

Quick update...bit more progress

[Hammers]

Cool beans. Can I ask you to put a mini beside it for size comparison?

[Dr. Zombie]

Here is a picture of my ship with a mix of Perry and 1.st corps minis on it.



Sorry for the hijack Akula..

[sukhe_bator]

I was going to ask about the scale difference looked - but Dr Zombie answered that admirably... Kinda jealous now since I love the Kogge. Guess I'm going to have to scratch-build my own. I have a Revell 1:50 Viking ship... was hoping to morph it into an Ironborn raider at some point... judging from the shield sizes that looks more plausible now, once I've cracked how to waterline it...

[AKULA]

Sorry for the hijack Akula..

Not at all...nice looking ship

 

[Hammers]

That's not shit, for 1/72 scale applicability foe 28mm.

[Knight-Captain Tyr]

REALLY keen to see where this goes. Was eyeing up a ship myself but don't really have any excuses to use it.

[AKULA]

Bit more progress on the Sell Sail’s vessel ...I decided to add a figurehead, and a ram (hopefully you can make out the latter despite my choice of a white background).

The dragon head is from a Schleich toy, with a bit of putty and HDP board for the ram. I was originally going to go with much smaller scales, but it just didn’t look right...the head is formed of large chunky ones.

I expect the figurehead would do wonders for the ship’s seakeeping qualities... probably has the bosun cursing in anything other than calm waters, but would impress potential employers at least 

[HappyChappy439]

Ha! Great idea! The scales work really well!

[aliensurfer]

That works very nicely.

[OSHIROmodels]

Brill 

[Captain Blood]

Great idea, Matt. That’s going to look really good when painted.
Burnished gold for the ram? Or something more industrial? 

[sukhe_bator]

It's a nice idea, and an excellent fantasy twist, but you do know that with the projecting forecastle the figurehead is going to connect way before any ram does! - the Captain will be cursing even more at the extra carpentry required afterwards!
Historically wide beamed ships like Kogge relied on their height above the waterline and used boarding rather than ramming attacks but don't let that put you off pimping your ride 

[AKULA]

Cheers all 

Great idea, Matt. That’s going to look really good when painted.
Burnished gold for the ram? Or something more industrial? 

I haven’t decided yet tbh 

It's a nice idea, and an excellent fantasy twist, but you do know that with the projecting forecastle the figurehead is going to connect way before any ram does! - the Captain will be cursing even more at the extra carpentry required afterwards!
Historically wide beamed ships like Kogge relied on their height above the waterline and used boarding rather than ramming attacks but don't let that put you off pimping your ride 

I did think about that, but, as you said the Cog is high-sided compared to most other vessels - most of the other vessels I’m going to use will be lower that the dragon figurehead, so it won’t be an issue unless the Captain decides to ram another Cog in the bow or stern.

Actually the height of the figurehead, and the horns etc make it quite a handy way of hopping onto another ship.

If that isn’t enough excuses, I can always say the ram extends further under the waterline 

[AKULA]

Last night I performed surgery on a dragon...actually 3 dragons to be precise.

 

I’d been thinking about the McFarlane Drogon...it’s just not intimidating enough.  The flying Viserion/Undead Viserion models are fine....it’s just the Drogon/Rhaegal model that looks a bit pants tbh....the head is tiny....Drogon would struggle to eat a chicken, let alone a horse, and I’m not a fan of the wing joints (ball/socket).



Then there is the Schleich Dragon I used as the basis of the figurehead on my Sell Sail vessel....



Massive head....one of the few dragon models that doesn’t have 2 pairs of legs with separate wings, BUT it’s wings are a bit stubby, and it’s got a ridiculous spiked tail.....

So, 20 minutes later, after a bit of sawing, pinning, gluing and putty, I came up with the following....




I used the Schleich toy as the basis of my new dragon, but cut back the wings, and the outer claw on each forearm, before pinning the Mcfarlane wings onto it, and filling the gaps with green stuff...one of the sections of wing membrane on the left wing is tucked in, hence the slightly raised wing shape....I’m going to base the model on a low rock, so I figure the dragon is shifting its position, hence the wings are partially extended, but also not open symmetrically.

The tail from the McFarlane dragon is pinned onto the Schleich model...conveniently the “fins” on the tail actually end at the point I made the cut...they don’t run all the way along the spine of the McFarlane model. I’ve also trimmed back the central scales running along the spine of the Schleich model.

The Schleich torso is from the original dragon, which I’d decapitated to create the ship’s figurehead, so I detached the head from a second (identical) Schleich dragon, at the base of the neck, to allow me to extend the neck of the new model. I also trimmed off the top horn from the head, to make it look a bit more like the GoT dragon.

Hopefully the paint job will tie the different parts together...I’m going to base it on some low profile rocks, but will tidy up the front claws at that stage.