Teensy tiny pirates, yarrrr! P17. Another ship, by thunder!

[mikedemana]

Wow! Love that mansion!! 

Mike Demana

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Mike 

Here's the next lift of miniscule pirates, and another pooch









Almost up to about 100 or so now - just a couple of thousand to go


Progress also on the pirate town board (there will be a desert islands board and some open sea boards, but the town is where I'm expecting a lot of the action to take place).

First up, the buildings are now painted.





For the boards, I'm using 40mm thick styrofoam slabs (600mm x 600mm square) for sea level, and then raised land areas are carved from 10mm thick styrofoam - so here you can see the shape of the promontory.

There's a further rise of 10mm in one corner because I want to hermitage to sit on a small hill slightly away from the town - that's just a carved scrap of blue foam and some aerated wall filler.



You can see the position of the buildings are marked out - they will sit in allotted places because they need to sit on a smooth surface, whilst the rest of the ground surface around the buildings and along the harbourside will be textured in various ways...

The harbour walls are cut from strips of Wills embossed sheets, capped with an Evergreen strip styrene 90 degree angle bead (4mm).
The stone jetties are cut from an old piece of embossed styrofoam sheet.
The mooring stanchions are fancy-topped cocktail sticks shoved down into the styrofoam



Here's a close-up of the hermitage hillock...



Here are the buildings in situ looking from the sea towards the harbour wall...



And here's the set-up with some (unassembled) 3D printed ships (15mm scale, which work much better with the Pendraken figures than 10mm scale - although the buildings are 10mm scale. Go figure ).





Next up - groundwork begins... 

[marianas_gamer]

Looks great! ....and with home brew in the background even better 

[Count Belisarius]

Absolutely splendid project. Figures are great. And the harbour is going to look wonderful. Really enjoying this project.

[mikedemana]

That is going to be an amazing town...! 

Mike Demana

[rumacara]

Looking very good.

May i ask from whom are the 3d ships ?

[Bloggard]

buildings look lovely.

[Captain Blood]

buildings look lovely.

Thanks 

Looking very good.

May i ask from whom are the 3d ships ?

The are by Printable Scenery. I got these ones from a printer / retailer on eBay in the UK called CNC. The quality of their prints is better than another 3D print company I used recently. But their customer service is a bit patchy. I’m still waiting for them to send me some masts that they didn’t include when they sent the ships - which was about two weeks ago 

By the way, you were right about the Peter Pig 15mm light guns, Rui. They are a perfect fit with the Pendraken 10mm figures. Thank you for the tip 

[rumacara]

If you want 6 i can send you. I wont use them.

[LouieN]

Amazing progress

[majorsmith]

What a great thread! I’m not really into the small stuff but really loving these! Love those little rowboats

[tomrommel1]

very nice progress

[Captain Blood]

Thanks all 

If you want 6 i can send you. I wont use them.

Thank you Rui. That's very kind of you. I have enough for now, but if I need more I'll let you know 

Next stage of groundworks...

First of all, I want to differentiate the harbour area and road leading up to the church, from the surrounding ground.
So I'm using a fine model railway grit or talus along the harbour front, which should bed down to for something resembling a cobbled / metalled surface.
And then a fairly fine sand mix over the rest of the ground.
Here you can see the first test application of these two different textures... Just sprinkled onto PVA.




Once the surface textures are stuck and the excess has been shaken off, I've then drenched the harbourside 'cobbles' with thinned PVA to seal and fix immovably them into position...




I've also made some simple gun emplacements for the defensive cannon.
I decided not to build these into the terrain itself, but to make them movable, so I can include them (or not!)
Here's the basis of it... Coffee stirrer planking on a plastic card base, a scrap of blue foam, and cocktail sticks - high end modelling materials 




Next, I've applied some 'gloop' (sand / grit / PVA / paint mix) to shape the surface of the hillock on which the hermitage will stand... And then sprinkled this with sand while still wet.




Now adding more road surface - you can see the difference between the hardened, PVA-sealed surfacing along the harbour front, and the newly applied area...




Once the excess is shaken off, the newly laid road area gets a PVA drenching to fix it too...




Here's the fully sealed road surface.
I also found some sections of MDF picket fence in the bits box (28mm sized) which I'm going to use somehow as timber pontoons along the foot of the harbour wall...




Then I've applied sand to all the rest of the open ground areas - taking care to leave the spaces for the buildings un-sanded, so that they sit down flat!




And here's the sanded, gritted groundwork with the buildings in situ...







Next steps - by far the most enjoyable and interesting bit for me - is painting all the land and sea surface and adding scrub, tufts etc. 
Watch this space.

[Count Belisarius]

That is going to look most splendid!

[Codsticker]

I really like the variation in the ground work- it looks excellent.