War Artisan | 02 Oct 2016 11:51 p.m. PST |
This time I've chosen two very well-known ships as the latest additions to my Napoleonic series. The first is a 28-gun frigate of the Enterprise class; the same class to which the HMS Surprise (of the novel and movie "Master and Commander") belonged.
The second is the Santisima Trinidad, the 130-gun monster that faced the British at Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar, as she appeared after her 1795 refit.
You can see more pictures of these two, from additional angles, in this set on my Flickr page (scroll to the bottom to see the newest additions): link |
Dale Hurtt | 03 Oct 2016 7:53 a.m. PST |
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Who asked this joker | 03 Oct 2016 8:18 a.m. PST |
Those look great! I've been meaning to try my hand at the freebie model you offer. It would be a very inexpensive way to get into age of sail sort of gaming. |
pvernon | 03 Oct 2016 8:48 a.m. PST |
War Artisen, Do you have or know of any cutter files for your ships? |
dantheman | 03 Oct 2016 9:24 a.m. PST |
These are great models. If I already didn't have a fleet of Napoleonics. I assume these get more interest as you really expanded your Napoleonic offerings. Is the Anglo-Dutch line on hold or still born? |
War Artisan | 03 Oct 2016 9:58 a.m. PST |
pvernon: I don't have any, and I don't know of any that are available. I remember reading a post somewhere about robocutter files that someone did for my ships, but it was years ago and I don't remember the details. dantheman: The Anglo-Dutch series is neither on hold nor stillborn . . . it just has to share very limited research and design time with many other projects (in addition to the expanded Napoleonic series, more War of 1812 ships for Ontario and Champlain, Elizabethan galleons, the expanded edition of "Admirals" and at least three other rules designs). There will be more. |
Marc the plastics fan | 03 Oct 2016 2:54 p.m. PST |
Card! Unbelievable. So good. |
Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 03 Oct 2016 3:41 p.m. PST |
Those are cardstock? WOWZERS! And I thought *I* was good with that stuff! |
Andrew Walters | 03 Oct 2016 4:08 p.m. PST |
One of these days I'm going to send you a bunch of money. |
Sloth1963 | 05 Oct 2016 3:51 p.m. PST |
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whitejamest | 05 Oct 2016 7:32 p.m. PST |
These are awesome looking models, as the whole line is. I'm with Sloth, a xebec would make a really neat addition too. |
War Artisan | 06 Oct 2016 4:14 a.m. PST |
There's a Xebec and a Polacre on the drawing board. I'm going to need them to do the Barbary Wars in 1:300 with a few US ships from the Great Lakes series. They'll also be useful for a 17th Century Dutch-in-the-Mediterranean scenario I have in mind (Mediterranean types didn't change much over a couple hundred years, so I can use the same models for both.) Getting the hulls to look right while keeping the kits easy to build is turning out to be a bit of a challenge, though. |
jambo1 | 07 Oct 2016 10:21 a.m. PST |
Superb!! really nice hard to believe they are cardstock. Really nice!! |