"Converted merchant schooner USS Raven, 1:1000" Topic

I made this from a 3D printed merchant ship hull that I made and uploaded to my Shapeways site, Swash & Buckle Naval Miniatures:
shpws.me/LMR2

This particular print is tiny, but it can be scaled up to any size you need -- it just costs more as the material cost increases.
In its existing scale it's $2.24 USD each, plus shipping.

I made the masts from metal music wire, and the sails from paper. The topsail is 3D printed and cut from my Royal George mizzenmast and sails part (also on the site -- for larger schooners you could buy two of these mizzens, and cut off the spankers to make your schooner sails too.)

The model looks a little rough in this extreme closeup -- but on the tabletop at playing distance, the eye fills in the details and it looks great as a game piece.

Interesting. It's a nice model for 1:1000. I'm liking the idea of the 3D masts.

I have need of 1-2 merchant hulls in 1:600. I suspect others would as well. How much effort would it be to rescale the merchie to 1:600? It might scale better since the minimum dimensions for Shapesways would fit the larger model.

Just my two cents.

G Dog

That's lovely. Hmmm… i need a couple Xebecs. This might be the route.