 John the OFM  | 16 Mar 2026 8:46 a.m. PST |
Looks very nice. FYI, I have a similar project on a back burner.
Brigade Games has rowers, which I have. So does Dayton Painting Consortium, RSM, which I have not seen, but I like their figures.
You can get whales "in scale" at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.
Many Pirate lines have Long John Silver as Captain Ahab. I got a Black harpoon man from Perry's Lird Dunmore's Ethiopians. 🎼"Hill and gully rider, hill and gully!"🎶 |
| 79thPA | 16 Mar 2026 11:59 a.m. PST |
Nice looking piece. What are the actual dimensions? |
 Bobgnar | 16 Mar 2026 2:37 p.m. PST |
Agree with 79th. how about showing with some figures. Thanks |
| John the OFM | 16 Mar 2026 2:43 p.m. PST |
I do not have the ability to post pictures. 🤷
And if I did, the boats would be laser cut from a company in Britain. They were a gift, and I have no clue who made them. Besides, it would not be the Right Thing to post such pictures in an advertisement by a rival company.
Unless I misunderstood. 🙄 |
 piper909 | 16 Mar 2026 5:25 p.m. PST |
Ooh, I want to convert some of these into Highland birlinns (galleys)! I haven't found anything else reasonably close. (Has anyone else?) |
| TheBeast | 16 Mar 2026 5:39 p.m. PST |
Possibly, John, as I assumed they were addressing questions to the MBA. Certains, I would make the same requests. Alas, few, though some, advertisers bother to check comments. The ones that do seem pure gold! Doug |
| John the OFM | 16 Mar 2026 8:25 p.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 16 Mar 2026 8:29 p.m. PST |
I know of no 28mm Captain Ahab.
But Starbuck could be a Jacobite or a Rogers Ranger figure. A Highlsnd bonnet with the … thingie.
Ishmael? Any seaman. |
| piper909 | 17 Mar 2026 10:36 a.m. PST |
Haha! That bobble "thingy" on a Scots bonnet is called a toorie. I'm surprised no one's made a suitable Ahab figure yet. He would be ideal in some Pulp-y set of seafarin' legends. Could one be cobbled together by putting Abe Lincoln's head on a sea captain's body, stovepipe hat, cutting off a leg, and adding a scar? |
| John the OFM | 17 Mar 2026 12:58 p.m. PST |
I'd rather Alan Perry get a sudden yen to do a Moby Dick set, and says "Darn! Nobody makes a Captain Ahab? Hold my beer."
I'd pay … $5.00 USD! |
| John the OFM | 17 Mar 2026 1:04 p.m. PST |
Hmmm…
In John Huston's "Moby Dick", Queequeg was played by an Austrian nobleman, Friederick von Ledebur.
link So, no need to follow my figure recommendation. 🙄🤷🤔 |
