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.