| Bashytubits | 13 Jan 2019 9:11 p.m. PST |
My foray into Napoleonic sailing ships, this is a 1-4800 scale 36 gun frigate and yes it CAN turn on a dime.
Now Trafalgar can be gamed on the tabletop. |
| UshCha | 14 Jan 2019 2:28 a.m. PST |
Not great detail but I am looking at it several times larger than life. I can imagine a large fleet looking like a large real fleet without needing too much painting and being able to really relate to real fleet operations. Now should you have made the msats seperate so they could pivot? ;-). Great stuff what 3D IS ALL ABOUT. |
| Andrew Walters | 14 Jan 2019 8:45 a.m. PST |
That is excellent! Where did the design come from? Are you sharing the STL? It would not take much paint to make that a really great figure. I opened the image in a separate tab so I could shrink it down to actual size, and it really works. With items like that I find I get different results if I print one at a time or several. Have you tried that? Fantastic work. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 14 Jan 2019 11:15 a.m. PST |
Wouldn't a penny or a washer be cheaper? Or print it with a base? Then you can texture it with waves. |
| Bashytubits | 14 Jan 2019 11:57 a.m. PST |
It wouldn't be as punny if I used a penny. I AM a punny guy.
I will paint some up so people can see them cleaned up and ready for action. |
| Waco Joe | 14 Jan 2019 2:36 p.m. PST |
Andrew, there is a file on Thingiverse that works well: link |
| 14Bore | 14 Jan 2019 6:13 p.m. PST |
But then you can't make a quarter turn |
| Bozkashi Jones | 15 Jan 2019 11:47 a.m. PST |
"Quarter turn"! LMAO. In the UK it's turning on a sixpence, but since decimalisation I suppose the Royal Navy has had to be content with going straight. Mind you – with the UK voting to turn the clock back to the fifties, maybe we'll get sixpences back. 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound; that'll make my kids less smug about having to show me how to use my i-phone. :) |
| DeRuyter | 16 Jan 2019 11:22 a.m. PST |
The 1/2400 scale Hallmark ships are fine for Trafalgar on the table top. Likely easier to paint too. |
| SgtPrylo | 16 Jan 2019 12:14 p.m. PST |
The pun-sibilities are endless: You can't 'Beat to dimes', nor can you man the dime deck. |
