"1/900 Paper Ships by War Artisan" Topic
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| Carpet General | 30 Oct 2013 10:04 a.m. PST |
I downloaded Mr Knudsen's free 64 gun 1/900 ship a while ago and have finally got around to making up a few. As a man who makes his living from making stuff from paper (packaging etc) I can say that these are superb.
Deviated from the suggested ingredients by using toothpicks for masts and paper clips for the yards. My rigging is a nylon coated stainless steel jewellery wire.
The bases are crumpled paper glued to a card base for a subtle wave effect. More pics at the following blog post: linkDefinitely going to be picking up more of these, most likely the 90 and 74 gun version to begin with. Cheers
Geoff
aka Carpet General |
| Who asked this joker | 30 Oct 2013 11:17 a.m. PST |
Those are beautiful! How long does it take to make one? I imagine the hulls go together pretty easily. The rigging looks like a bear! |
| Mollinary | 30 Oct 2013 11:56 a.m. PST |
That is truly brilliant. Take a bow! Mollinary |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 30 Oct 2013 1:42 p.m. PST |
I have almost all of Jeff's ships and I love them. If you put your mind to it, you could do 2-3 per evening if you do basic rigging. I deck my 1/300s out with Langton guns and crew and they look great!
I have the 1/900s as well but have not gotten around to them.
Great work Carpet General! |
| Carpet General | 30 Oct 2013 2:45 p.m. PST |
I think that working on multiple ships is the way to go as you always seem to be waiting for something to dry.
Joker, the first one took a whole evening but by the time I did the others the time was easily halved. |
| dantheman | 31 Oct 2013 9:04 a.m. PST |
I see are colored to represent the painted hulls of the late 18th century. Did you paint them in? You may want to use spanner sales doe the mizzen as lateens were gone by then. Great work! |
| whitejamest | 31 Oct 2013 6:52 p.m. PST |
Really gorgeous models, both Carpet General and Virtual Scratchbuilder! I love the look of the figures on the gunboat, very cool.
- James |
| Carpet General | 01 Nov 2013 9:59 a.m. PST |
Dan, I did paint the hulls, I'm a Naval novice so I'm bound to make some mistakes I guess. I checked the oob for Trafalgar and 64 gun ships were very few. I've bought the 90 and 74 gun kits and I'll modify those with the later shape sail, these will also proxy for any 100+ and 80 gun ships so I guess there will be a bit of converting to be done. Cheers
CG |
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