A Pirate Fleet

[Sinewgrab]

Well, I have put together a small fleet of ships, so I thought I would show them off.

Note, anyone bringing up historical accuracy will be stabbed in the face with a poniard. These are converted Megabloks ships, with extra shots of the newest ones. The three newest ships are all put together from various ebay buys of incomplete ships, that after 5 really inexpensive buys, I had enough to put together 3 complete ships.

The fleet as a whole.



This is based off the Predator. It ended up with a back section of a Black Pearl, and then later I got what would have been the right piece in another buy.




This one began life as a Black Pearl with no sides to it, and no prow. A later purchase gave me a prow, and just went straight across with the deck. It sits lower than the others, but that doesn't bother me.




It was given a new figurehead, so I call the ship the Blue Devil.



And this one was also a Pearl. I call it the Green Dragon, and it also gained a prepaint figure as a figurehead. I had to scramble to find some masts for it, but I found them in an ebay shop - though I had to finagle to get them on.




I am not yet finished with the sails - I am making new ones for a few of these ships - but they are coming along nicely. It will make for a fun fleet. I am planning on running a Pirate game in November using some homegrown rules, so we'll see how that goes. The next step is to paint some more pirate figures, and build an island. I think I'll use the Build Something contest to force me to make some buildings.

[kidterminal]

Impressive collection. I have the pearl but I haven't done any work on her yet.

Rob

[Silent Invader]

That is an awesome collection

[General Roos]

 

[Christian]

That is a very, very nice collection.

[DFlynSqrl]

   Awesome!

[postal]

what a great fleet you did a very good job on them

[Luckyjoe]

Outstanding! I especially like the fact that you were able to piece them together from disparate parts.

Luckyjoe

[Westfalia Chris]

Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me! 

That's positively great, just great. I guess they are just the right size to work both as "playing areas" themselves and as "game pieces" on a suitably big table.

[Ray Rivers]

 

Beautiful!

[Poiter50]

No Chinese Junk??

[warrenpeace]

Sinewgrab put together an Empress Junk from Mega Bloks for me, but I need to modify a deck grating and repaint the deck.  It will be a long time before you see a photo of that one, as I don't think Sinewgrab took a photo of that one before I started changing things.

[WarGameGuru]

Really nice man. I picked up a Black Pearl for $30 off eBay bout 5 months ago, and I've wanted to mod it, but haven't had the time. I really don't want to have to go thro and hack off all the lego-like nubs sticking out, but I can't think of a better way to get rid of them around those inner ledges.

[Sinewgrab]

A good pair of wire cutters does wonders, actually.

Thank you for all the compliments - on top of these, I also have a "steamtech" vessel and a scale replica of an Uncharted Seas Orc Battleship, as well as 6 or 7 of the old Flagship Games Galleys. Now, I need to concentrate on pirates.

[Dr. The Viking]

Nice!

What do you do with them then!?