"Some 18th century ships" Topic

Hi, I had recently the chance to purchase some 1/450 scale ships from Peter Pig and gathered courage for assembling and painting them --for it was my first trial at this scale and kind of miniature!

Assembly process in itself seemed reasonably easy to me. Otherwise, painting could have been a real nightmare for a novice like me, if I hadn't taken the care not to glue all the masts on hull, but to prime and paint them aside.

I chose to work on three ships altogether, painting two of them as early 18th century Bourbon Spanish men-o-war, while the third one had to be an Austro-Catalan blockade runner.

Well, this is the ultimate result of my job. Please be benevolent!

First of all, a full-rigged ship:

Painting job was made with Vallejo Acrylics, loosely taking the colour scheme from what Google would show me

Next comes a brig, also from Peter Pig:

Flags were drawn on my desktop PC on historical sources and printed on a home printer. At the time of placing them though, I admit to have simplified to my own ease the set to be flown: while Ensigns are correctly flown at stern, I've chosen mainmasts for placing Jacks, so leaving mizzenmasts to eventual war pennants --as the cases above.

Last, the blockade runner:

This xebec doesn't belong to Peter Pig ships range, but is a 3D-print from a Shapeways designer instead. Its profile could be lower and wider at its centre, certainly. But nevertheless it still stands as a good looking model.

Flags of this latter ship aren't purely historical for the period, but do fit in an 18th century Imagi-nation I developed some time ago --that I've been planning to re-launch lately.

Hope you don't dislike my just born fleet!

Lluís

These are excellent Lluís, good solid painting and finishing, perhaps some detailing for the water but that's just my preference, otherwise no one can fault your efforts and this fleet looks ready for business. What rules are you using BTW?.

Benevolent? I think they look great!

Thanks Sirs, you are most benevolent indeed

@Zargon, I'm a bit doubtful about what naval wargaming ruleset to choose.

A gaming mate and I have started planning a long-term campaign set in the early 18th century Antilles, whose core story would be run by a RPG Master, with an assistant Wargaming Master for eventual crowded handicuffs. We shared and enjoyed the experience some years ago using a WSS what-if Nation, so I'm quite confident it can be done with a lot of fun (that previous time though, wargame ruled over RPG, inversely to the new project).

The set of rules we're planning to use are GURPS for RPG and Beneath the Lily Banners for land bashing. I believe that Galleys and Galleons might be good for the naval job (especially if it manages mediterranean ships fighting too, as its name seemingly suggests), but I'm still pretty doubtful.

Might I know what ruleset would you favour, if in my place?

Lluís

Wonderful paint job Lluis.

What are the dimensions of the Spanish three-mast ship?
And what size bases are you using?

Cheers,
Robert

Great job, Lluis.

And you have the flags blowing in the right direction. You'd be surprised how many modellers don't think of that small detail.

Jim

For rules try 'Away Boarders', free on the War Artisan's site.

Beneath the Lily Banners is a great set for land games IMHO. I don't have any recommendations for naval rules though as I don't play any.

Those look awesome!!!

Hi Lluis;
I just purchased similar Peter Pig ships from Brookhurst here in t he USA.
Your photos have inspired me to paint them soon.
I plan on using Galleys and Galleons for the rules.
Now to try my hand at making flags.
Thank you for posting.
Joe