"Cheap boats at Hobby Lobby" Topic

Just a heads up. I was at the local Hobby Lobby and found some excellent sailboats. To make them even better they were half off. I got two boats for $13. USD Unfortunatly they only had two. I would have bought a dozen. They only required a little bit of work to make them useable.

Before:

After:

With Minis for scale:

I dont think I'll even repaint them.

Chuck

Those are pretty nice, and a good price for them too.

I've seen them converted into pretty decent pirate sloops by moving the mast back a bit, adding a little rigging, cutting ports in the side for a few cannons, removing the overly large paddles, etc.

Got a bunch of these on sale at Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago for five bucks each.
The wood is hard to work with. Needed a dremel to cut it. but finally got one converted.

You can see the conversion here:
link

I don't think I've ever seen more than two of them in a store at the same time.

Those are excellent!

Doug

Yarr!

Looks like you can get them online too:

link

Chuck

Coolness.

here's something else helpful: link

40% off a single item…

I've got a half dozen gaff-rigged and just picked up two of the lateen rigs as shown. I usually fit a thin wooden or corrugated deck with an aft companionway and a hatch forward. the guns fire over the gunwales. Arrrh, I've got a nice fleet mates!

Photos, (maybe in a companion thread?) please, Shagnasty ??

These are very cool little ships.

I'd love to but I can't even figure out how to post an original thread, much less do tech stuff. Sorry. I think there are some pictures of my boats in photos of Pirate games for the Millennium con and at the Austin-LSHM site.