The HMS Penetrator (Sloop Model)

[Wingnut]

Last year I put together a Fire Lock Games Sloop kit in anticipation of a Small local convention that due to the pandemic was called off. With  the distraction of general life activities and other responsibilities I sat the little boat on a shelf in the paint studio and kinda forgot I ever did it. I took some pic's of it today and moved the images up to my blog nearly a year after I built it.





There are more pictures here: https://fistfullofseamen.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-hms-penetrator-this-is-hms.html

Wingnut

     

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks great 

[FifteensAway]

Wingnut,

Glad to see you are still moving forward.  I am running a pirate game at a convention in Fresno, California next month (with a practice run this Sunday) - but all land troops this time (maybe a token pirate ship at anchor in the background). 

Love your perchance for naming ships.   

Oh, rules for my game?  Rank and File by Crusader Publishing.  Not designed for pirates but for land battles - the test game will help determine what - if any - tweaks I'll need to make.

[Wingnut]

15's away!
It does make me happy you posted to the thread, your doing well and putting on a game in a convention soon. Our crew is emerging slowly but cautiously back into the public gaming arena. We lost a crew member to the Covid-19 peak back in 2020. We all feel like people emerging from the rubble in H.G.Wells War of the worlds these days, not knowing who made it through the pandemic.
Not played Rank & File, but I'm not loyal to any rule sets, as long as a group of grown men can play with toys around table, make "Shooty-noises", and pretend they look dignified. Good luck and post pic's of your game. Inspiration is always in need.     

Wingnut   

[tomrommel1]

very nice indeed

[Golgotha]

Fantastic I do like your ships you must now have a large collection. The whale is a great addition too. Keep 'em sailing.

[Grumpy Gnome]

She is looking shipshape and Bristol fashion!

[v_lazy_dragon]

Splendid looking ship, and I love the whale tail!

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

very cool.  What size figures go with it?  I hope 28 as i have a bunch of British sailors and marines i just bought from Brigade!

[Wingnut]

very cool.  What size figures go with it?  I hope 28 as i have a bunch of British sailors and marines i just bought from Brigade!

28's mostly a few 25's have been pressed into service. I started this madness way before Fire-lock Games made taller and impressive figures so I haven't purchased their blood and plunder figures. I do like their ships so I bought many of them to integrate into my own fleets. Brigade has some fun figures, the Turkish Pirates are some of my favorites.

[Wingnut]

Fantastic I do like your ships you must now have a large collection. The whale is a great addition too. Keep 'em sailing.

So the Whale is a toy sperm whale I bought to go with the Eureka Figures Whaling boats they produced. I was making a game around Melville's Moby-Dick, I played at Historicon back in the early 2000's. Fantastic rules; wished I could get my hands on them again.
I ordered three whales from the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few years ago and cut them into various water-line poses.
Table saw and a little sanding.....
https://www.michaels.com/safari-ltd-sperm-whale/10327931.html?r=g&cm_mmc=PLASearch-_-google-_-MICH_Shopping_US_N_Kids_Low+Margin_Smart_BOPIS_N-_-&Kenshoo_ida=&kpid=go_cmp-9638984798_adg-99988418355_ad-425991104288_pla-1442334401443_dev-c_ext-_prd-10327931&gclid=CjwKCAjw-8qVBhANEiwAfjXLrjgtNUAaNMxJ-6ePGvM-OJE7-YwNEeL3QKUElrK1XVOghWkApMKQwBoCRt4QAvD_BwE
They are much more affordable here.

The fleets of the convention game we use to run are up to:
Dutch fleet: 4 complete, 3 in the works
French Fleet: 6 complete 1 in the works
English Fleet: 6 Complete  1 in the works
Pirates: 5 Complete, 1 in the works
Spanish Fleet: 4 complete, 3 in the works.
Unaligned: 9 plus the Cannibal canoe flotilla
4 other hulls that are not finished nor assigned.   

So around 47 ships if I ever get them completed. Storage is a problem.
 

[abu iskander]

Nicely done. And the name is right on azimuth. Well done.

[pancakeonions]

Bravo!  I just finished my own crazy paint-up of a giant ship (curious?) and love these older sailing ships.  Yours looks magnificent! 

[Wingnut]

Bravo!  I just finished my own crazy paint-up of a giant ship (curious?) and love these older sailing ships.  Yours looks magnificent!

Always welcome a new ship picture to inspire fine works. But "Pancakeonions" sounds like a better story.

[FifteensAway]

Wingnut,

Sorry to hear about your groups loss of a member to COVID, all losses are hard.  Alas, while not from COVID, we lost several gamers locally over the last nine months, one who was a long-time good friend.  He rests a very short walk away from my father who passed last year at 92 - at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery (for veterans, of course).  A long battle with cancer took one much too young, a short battle for another who at least made it into his early seventies - more an acquaintance than a friend but a spectacular painter of figures (top notch professional quality, a very well deserved $16 bucks for a painted 28 mm mounted figure, too rich for me but a bargain for the artistry) and builder of models and terrain.  The others were people I did not know personally but lamented by people I do know.  My good friend made it into his seventies but had been ill for about a year and half, quietly.  He was a bit older than me but one of the most creative minds in gaming - especially scenario design.  He will be much missed.

We are opening up again here in this area, too.  Our local library meeting rooms, a mainstay for the last couple of decades for high quality and free meeting spaces, have finally reopened for reservations.  While the local game shops have been kind when and where they can, there spaces just can't hold a candle to the library spaces.

Here is to more games with friends while they are still here - and to good health for all of us who have it.  May it last a very long time!