1/150 (10mm) Nauticals: The Med, 18thC ...., row, row, row your boat...

[Silent Invader]

Here's the parts for the whaler









I'm thinking of casting up the cannon and other detail parts, with maybe some thinner  vacuum form sails, for a single or double masted sloop.

[Silent Invader]

Black Sails looks interesting.....

.... 1715 Caribbean piracy ..... 

[Silent Invader]

Kind of a prequel to Treasure Island

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2375692/

[OSHIROmodels]

That kit looks good 

I'll be making a start on some coastal terrain after BLAM 

Some forts, a harbour, town, maybe an old castle, the possibilities are endless 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

I have 4 of the kits now! 

The little boats look useful for raids.

Post BLAM I intend to start on crew

Won't working at 1:200 be a bit like the day job for you, James?

We going for a Caribbean  setting?  Can you get 1:200 palm trees? If not if might be possible to cast the head of fronds and then just add a styrene trunk?

[OSHIROmodels]

Won't working at 1:200 be a bit like the day job for you, James?

We going for a Caribbean  setting?  Can you get 1:200 palm trees? If not if might be possible to cast the head of fronds and then just add a styrene trunk?

Almost like it but much more fun and without shit deadlines 

Palm trees no problem 

cheers

James

[Silent Invader]

All good 

It's a bit lonely in here isn't it?!

I mentioned it to Richard in a pm but even he hasn't stopped by and he's the bloody moderator! 

[OSHIROmodels]

It's a bit lonely in here isn't it?!

 

Sod the rest, we can have fun on our own 

cheers

James

[Damas]

Oi, I ain't ded!  Which four kits did you purchase Steve, the Whaler?

[Silent Invader]

 

Yeah the New England Whaler. It's about 100 years too late but I think will lend itself to conversion to a sloop.  For example it is copper plated below the line but this handily provides a cutting point for waterlining.  I also think it should be possible to cut a section out of 1 (to make it shorter) to add into another (to make it longer).  Should be fun to work with. 

One thing I'm not clear on is how to represent movement and damage.  Maybe removable masts that are set up to reflect full sail, furled sail and smashed to buggery.  Maybe the masts could connect with magnets?  Could be that I am over thinking it! Hmmm.... What to do about rigging ?!

[Captain Blood]

I like the idea chaps.
But not sure I can start yet another period... 
Tempting as it is.

Hmmm...

(What is 1/200 BTW? About 10mm? I would definitely go blind if I started to paint 10mm figures... )

[Silent Invader]

About 9mm tall!

But it's not about the minis, it's about the ships and the terrain.  They become the art with any minis simply adding flavour by indicating purpose and activity.  I think of it as a wood ant nest...... Or those columns of rain forest ants .... You don't look at the individual ants but at their overall activity.

 

[Captain Blood]

Hmmm. What size coins would you use for individually basing 9mm figures Steve??? 



Maybe multi-figure bases would be acceptable in this scale    (Because you'd need landing / boarding parties, obviously... )

[Silent Invader]

Definitely multi figure bases.... Perhaps with variants for purpose.

Let's say I have a ship.  It will have decorative (flavour/character) guns and crew in place that befits it's purpose.  Then there's the rowing boats with crew and without crew (the whaler comes with a lot of spares).  Then there's a base of fighting men ashore and fighting men aboard. 

So for each ship I might have

- The main hull, gunned up, with skeleton crew and basic rigging
- Three options for the main mast: furled, full billow and buggered to indicate movement and damage
- some little boats being rowed
- some empty little boats
- a couple of multi bases of fighting crew ashore
- a couple of multi bases of fighting crew aboard

Enough to tell / show the changing story?

Or am I just getting carried away?! 

[Captain Blood]

Sounds lovely  

A spreadsheet will be required to keep track of all these components