| Cacique Caribe | 28 Aug 2010 11:41 p.m. PST |
- For making waterline Caribbean and/or Arabian Pirate ships out of card.
- Something that will not produce just plain flat vertical sides*, please. Thanks, Dan
* Example of one that produces plain straight/flat sides:
picture
link |
| Cacique Caribe | 29 Aug 2010 12:04 a.m. PST |
Something contoured like this one, but for a pirate ship: picture Thanks, Dan |
| Toaster | 29 Aug 2010 2:05 a.m. PST |
warartisan.com/ships Try this one. he uses a balsa block to glue the paper templates around to give the shape, check out his free sample. Robert |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 29 Aug 2010 11:08 a.m. PST |
The War Artisan ships (1/300 scale) are a hoot. I have bought the entire range, and a lot of them can be adapted to Caribbean ships as they are schooners, cutters and small ships. Brigs and snows could easily be made from them as well. A little fiddling and you could come up with Xebecs and Feluccas too. They go together nicely and look fine when finished up. picture (note… these are unfinished – touching up yet to be done) |
| Cpt Arexu | 29 Aug 2010 11:34 a.m. PST |
See the major generals page plans:
link |
| Top Gun Ace | 29 Aug 2010 11:58 a.m. PST |
Balsa, or a foam stern and bow would work. Just carve to shape, and then glue your cardboard to that, and rubber-band it until it dries. A lot of ships had rather flat-sided hulls (at least vertically), so that works in your favor. You could make some upright pieces too, that are slightly curved near the top, if you want to try that, and then glue the sides to them, once they are set. Tapering in the top of the stern piece (looking at the model in the vertical plane again) will provide for a slightly curved top section partway down the hull. Added to the tapering in the horizontal plane as well gives the vessels a complex shape. That makes them look very nice. Good luck with your project. |
| Top Gun Ace | 29 Aug 2010 12:22 p.m. PST |
See here, for some pics of ones presumably made from wood/foamboard and cardboard, which look very nice: link link |
| DS6151 | 30 Aug 2010 4:58 a.m. PST |
Worldworks games makes a very cool paper pirate ship for 28mm figures. |
| Dave Crowell | 30 Aug 2010 5:51 a.m. PST |
Start with the War Artisan ships. They're easy and give you a feel for it. The Perfect Captain did some for the Spanish Fury: Sail rules, a queery on the TPC Yahoo group may turn up some help. Also try cardfaq.org THE first stop for card modeling q&a, unfortunately sailing ships seem to be an uncommon subject. |
| Feet up now | 30 Aug 2010 11:02 a.m. PST |
I got this one for my daugther when she did a spanish armada subject at school link
A very good model and it is still on show at the school 2 years later.May have to claim it back soon.
Could be too big for a pirate ship ,good target ship for them though. |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 31 Aug 2010 10:19 a.m. PST |
You might look at "Send A Gunboat!" and the 25mm or 15mm (as preferred) "Arab Dhow" card stock model. Buy the PDF and make as many as you want. TVAG |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Aug 2010 11:23 p.m. PST |
TVAG, I only see the 25mm option: link Can't find the 15mm ones. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks, Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Aug 2010 11:33 p.m. PST |
This is interesting: link I like how they were able to contour the prow in a realistic way. That's what I would like a template to do; to depict curvatures. Dan |
| The Virtual Armchair General | 01 Sep 2010 10:42 a.m. PST |
Dear Cacique, Sorry, I apparently need to go Gremlin hunting! The 15mm versions of all the 25mm designs are available for the same price as PDF's, even if they don't properly show up now. If you wish, just drop me a line telling me what you want, and I can invoice you via PayPal, and send whatever you like via E-mail and spare you the postage. TVAG |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Sep 2010 10:48 p.m. PST |
TVAG, Email sent. Thanks! Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Sep 2010 11:24 p.m. PST |
With the right templates, this foam contouring technique might be useful: link Dan |
