"3-D printed Frigate USS General Pike 1:1000 scale" Topic

Assembled, painted and lightly rigged from a 5-piece kit from the Swash and Buckle Naval Miniatures store on Shapeways:
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All the ships that fought in the 1813 Lake Ontario campaign are on the site now. I like to use them with the Post Captain rules, from Old Dominion Game Works -- because those rules are particularly designed for squadron-level actions and below, smaller and unrated ships, etc.

I've made Post Captain ship cards for all the ships, too -- which I'm happy to share with you. Get them here:

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Checked out the ships on your Shapeways site. Good looking little kits you will be hearing from me.

Nice model!

Really great work on an interesting kit. It came out great. And thanks for posting those ship cards.

How brittle do you find the 3D printed parts to be – especially the masts?

Not brittle at all. Shapeways white strong and flexible plastic is exactly that. What can be problematic is that masts (or any similar shape that they call unsupported wire) have a minimum thickness for successful printing of 1mm. So I'm printing at the very edge of feasibility in my smallest models. Sometimes they print fine and sometimes they print and sometimes they don't. A viable alternative if you like kit-bashing is to order just a hull, and then make you own masts from music wire and paper sails.

The minis are made to integrate with my operational board game, A Glorious Chance: The Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario, 1813. Available for preorder at Legion Wargames:

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You can use the board game as your scenario generator for tactical battles using whatever tactical mini rules or scale you like. Or just use the built-in combat system to resolve other battles more quickly and simply.

At 1/1000 scale these would seem like shoo-ins for additional Sails Of Glory ship types.