Sloop Up for sale

[Lowtardog]

The Sloop has been cast and is now up for sale ladies and gents :mrgreen:



available from here

http://minimi.co.uk/pirates/

[Gluteus Maximus]

And its got a useable crow's nest    :love:  

[Plynkes]

There's no crow's nest on that model. What that fellow is standing on is called a top (sometimes maintop or fighting top, I don't know what you call them on a sloop).

A crow's nest is a different sort of creature. The old-fashioned ones being like big baskets, the later ones just like a barrel or cylinder.


Edit: Sorry, I'm being a picky smart-arse again, ain't I. Just ignore me.  

[Gluteus Maximus]

There's no crow's nest on that model. What that fellow is standing on is called a top (sometimes maintop or fighting top, I don't know what you call them on a sloop).

A crow's nest is a different sort of creature. The old-fashioned ones being like big baskets, the later ones just like a barrel or cylinder.


Edit: Sorry, I'm being a picky smart-arse again, ain't I. Just ignore me.  

Yes you are, but no I won't. :wink:

I'm happy to stand corrected, especially if it means my general ignorance levels are decreased  ::

Either way, it's got somewhere high-up to put a figure onto.
That's always a bonus for me!

[Rhoderic]

I wonder if it'd look aberrantly wrong to convert a fighting top that can hold two miniatures, somehow. It'd be so very swashbucklery to have figures fighting it out on the masts

[Gluteus Maximus]

A wonderful thought, but I don't think it's possible to do it in a conventional manner.  25mm dia bases preclude it - even 20mm are too big. :cry:

However, if you were to make the spars out of steel tubing & give the figures magnetic bases.......... :wink:

[Plynkes]

Well a real one on a ship of the line would have room for loads of people up there. There were loads of snipers in the tops of Redoutable and it was one of them that did for Nelson.

Sloops, however are quite a bit smaller than ships of the line. As Gluteus says, the problem is that figures need big bases to stop them falling over. A space that could fit several people in real life will often not even allow one 28mm figure to stand, due to base size.

That's why I use the smallest bases possible, usually 1 Pence pieces.

So it might look ridiculously big if you did that. Would be cool, though.

[fastolfrus]

Make the spars out of half-round dowel and leave the flat side up : that way you can swasgh and buckle out along the yard arms (until someone bangs their beergut on the table)

[Rhoderic]

I was actually thinking of drilling some discreet holes through the spars, through which thin metal rods can be slid. Two such rods properly spaced will create an impromptu platform for a miniature to stand on. I'm doing a similar solution with the coaches I've been making for my swashbucklers, so I can represent figures clambering on to the sides.