Getting back into Man O' War - bretonnian fleet painted

[Sixmilletoe]

Good evening all,

I would just like to share with you all my latest project. First up, the Empire and Orc fleets.

I've owned the Empire fleet for many years and did not paint these myself. The Orc fleet is painted be myself and I've chosen a simple but 'Orcy' colour scheme for the fleet than that depicted on the games workshop boxes🙂

As an addition to the fleets, I have also remade all the card templates and tokens in scaled down acrylic to both save space and improve the aesthetics of the game.

Hope you enjoy!








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[duncant403]

I love your templates and counters - they look so professional. What's the process for making them?

[ZeroTwentythree]

  OMG, that's beautiful. All of it!

[madzerker]

one of my favorite games, well done!

[Elbows]

All of this is fantastic...I love stuff like this.

[m4jumbo]

Very nicely done!

[tancrede]

Nice painting on the fleets (and I want to see more).
But your tokens are really a great idea and they are top !

[tomogui]

Lovely stuff! Such nostalgia seeing them here, although painted much better than mine ever were back in the day.

[Sixmilletoe]

Thank you all for your kind words! There will be much more to come soon hopefully including more fleets, acrylic game markers and battle reports with any luck!

I love your templates and counters - they look so professional. What's the process for making them?

As an architectural Modelmakers by day, I am fortunate enough to have access to a laser cutter and drawing software at work. In my free time(lunch breaks🙂), I draw/trace existing tokens from scanned images or free hand and convert them into various acrylic tokens.
Once drawn, the material is first etched(on both sides in many cases), removed from the laser and has paint rubbed into the etch and is then placed back into the laser for the final cut pass.
 
The stat templates require the same process as above with the additional process of assembly. They compromise of 3 layers of 1.5mm thick acrylic glued together using dichloromethane (plastic weld) for a clean bond. The relief between layers allows the 3mm thick tokens to locate well into each location and also be easy enough to remove.

Below are some pics of the the remaining fleets to paint and also an example of some acrylic in game markers.🙂









Bretonnians up next!🙂

[BigB]

I just finished collecting every fleet myself..including an undead and lizardman fleet using some kitbashes, greenforest trading company ships and others.

I look forward to watching your progression

[OSHIROmodels]

Where the f*** did you get all those Corsairs 

Game soon, game soon, game soon 

cheers

James

[Sixmilletoe]

Where the f*** did you get all those Corsairs 

Game soon, game soon, game soon 

cheers

James

Yeah, got a bit carried away, but wanted enough Bretonnians to have a Bretonnians vs Bretonnians napoleonic style game

Back next week mate, then we'll arrange a game and hopefully do a battle report. Have you got any scenery we can use?

[OSHIROmodels]

Got a fair bit 

Also got a 6x4 mat on the way 

cheers

James

[Stéphane]

Great upgrade for this old game.

Stéphane

[Supercollider]

Fantastic thread.  I really, really regret getting rid of a lot of Man o War stuff back in the day :/

love the templates!