| Sundance | 01 Apr 2009 1:19 p.m. PST |
Whatever that is… What color do you paint your sails on sailing ships? Light grey/white or linen/light beige? Earlier sails were linen, no? So that would suggest light buff/beige, but later were cotton canvas so that would suggest light grey/off-white. Thoughts? |
| highlandcatfrog | 01 Apr 2009 1:29 p.m. PST |
For my Napoleonic ships I use "Aged White" from the Polly Scale Model Railroad line. It's got kind of a yellowish-dirty tinge to it, looks like sweaty, unwashed gym socks that have been allowed to fester in a locker for a few months. |
| Top Gun Ace | 01 Apr 2009 2:02 p.m. PST |
You might try checking some photos of wooden ship models as well, to see how they are done. Some people have reported to have had good success using antique white, or similarly colored resume paper, with a mottled effect. They use two sheets, and apply spray adhesive to glue them together, for strength. They then pencil in any details on them. |
 McKinstry   | 01 Apr 2009 2:04 p.m. PST |
I use a craft paint called 'Old Parchment'. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder | 01 Apr 2009 2:05 p.m. PST |
Basecoat Reaper Linen White. Then a watered down coat of Accent Buttercream, with a dab of light brown in the corners, streaked and blended toward the center of the sail. For ships fresh out of harbor I leave them linen white. |
| The G Dog | 01 Apr 2009 2:44 p.m. PST |
I used an old Polly S shade "Dirty White". Would the cotton canvas go gray with time? |
| Mathion | 01 Apr 2009 7:23 p.m. PST |
Vallejo Bone white, washed with thinned GW sepia wash, then drybrushed with Vallejo off white. Matt |
| The Beast Rampant | 01 Apr 2009 8:25 p.m. PST |
Privateer Menoth White Base (relabeled "flax" on the lid, a nice, DESCRIPTIVE name) , "magic-washed", then drybrushed with MWB mixed with two or three increasing, um, ammounts of white. |
| scottydad66 | 02 Apr 2009 1:25 a.m. PST |
I paint Vallejo white/Vallejo buff 80/20 and then thin wash of vallejo green Ochre. I pick folds/details out with Vallejo cork brown as seen below. link craig |
| 11th ACR | 03 Apr 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
I use just about any color of white then I use a heavily watered down yellow ocher and let that wash away on its own (gravity). To see what it looks like: link |
| Supercilius Maximus | 04 Apr 2009 2:05 a.m. PST |
<<…..looks like sweaty, unwashed gym socks that have been allowed to fester in a locker for a few months.>> Surely there is a GW colour called that? |
| 11th ACR | 04 Apr 2009 7:45 a.m. PST |
But you must remember, that some of use have some Moral Values, and refuse to use any GW products! Let alone they would charge you three times the normal cost for a color called "Historically accurate Sails" (AKA, sweaty, unwashed gym socks that have been allowed to fester in a locker for a few months.) |
| Olaf 03 | 05 Apr 2009 2:38 p.m. PST |
Not to stray from the original topic, but what companies make ships for the SYW and what scales are available? I always thought having some naval forces would make for an interesting twist in a campaign. |
| 11th ACR | 03 May 2009 10:43 p.m. PST |
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| Olaf 03 | 07 May 2009 7:01 p.m. PST |
11th ACR Thanks for the link |
| Chouan | 12 May 2009 8:40 a.m. PST |
Sundance and The G Dog, there is no such thing as "cotton canvas", canvas is made of flax, as is linen. |
| Pyrate Captain | 18 Aug 2010 8:13 p.m. PST |
Since sails were occasionally replaced, has anyone ever mixed colors of their sails? |
