"Any decent 17th Century Ships for Caribbean and Pirates" Topic

Are there any decent resin, plastic, or wooden vessels, in either 15mm/18mm, or 25mm/28mm scale, for pirates, gov't vessels, and merchants?

I'm aware of the new Ainsty vessels, and the Old Glory ships, but am looking for others, with the more curved, higher-stern styling to them (like on the Ainsty vessels).

I'd love to find a Dutch Fluyt, and some other more ornate looking vessels for my crews.

Check Blue Moons Pirate Range. Not huge ships but affordable and nice looking.

Try games of war they do a ship about 14" long

Very nice too

Regards

Jez

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm probably going to have to either go with the Peter Pig 1/450th vessels, Langton's 1/1200th Anglo-Dutch Wars ships, or look for some wooden ships, or plastic kits of these more ornate, and curvy vessels.

I'm primarily interested in smaller vessels, like 5th and 6th rates (not sure that is the correct term for this period, so smaller Men of War 20 – 28 guns or so, 18 guns and less, and 36 – 50 gun vessels), as well as sloops and merchants (both armed and unarmed).

Here's a very nice looking Dutch vessel that has the more curved upper railings and taller, more ornate stern I'm looking for:

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There are a number of other nice looking 17th Century ships here:

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Here's another link with lots of nice photos of 17th Century vessels, midway down the page, and below:

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Ideally, looking for vessels around approximately 1/100th and 1/60th scale, but even 1/300th scale vessels would be useful.

I use peter pigs 1/450 pieces of eight ships and love them, they are a nice scale to have good detail but a game can be played in a small area, they sell crew and gun packs so you can arm and crew the ships as you want. and you can interchange warship and merchant as you want by how you arm them with the guns.
I only wish they would make more ship models

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, I concur, more vessel choices would be greatly appreciated.

May have to try scratch-building some in that scale, to fill in the missing vessels.