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yeah definatly... as i am a fan on wooden texture and as you are making a ton of that i would love to see some closeups... also what paints did you use on the ships hull for the wooden color?

your amazing. really nice work. I cant wait to see it painted.

I will try to get better pics and coseups (maybe even a vid) as I can borrow a good camera. That will be after a coat of varnish, however.

This is the current estate of the painting: Everything is done. It went quite faster than expected, but the yellow gradients were a pain.





And with my mordheim warband members on it, in order to better show the scale of the ship:

those arcs are truly lovely!

While the first ship was supposed to be sometype of ship-of-the-line, or belong to an armada before it was taken by pirates, the next boat will be more... exotic. Like a smaller corsair ship from the Mediterranean Sea.

Here are some spoilers regarding that new ship.

this implies a very interesting look... those sails will be very cool...

Dude, are you trying to build a WHFB scale fleet?

he said so....and even islands ... a whole maritime table so to speak---

I just borrowed a good camera.













For those who wanted closeups, here you have them.







Progress will be halted till the next week, since my degree requires some extra time right now.

Absolutely amazing!

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Just posted a video on youtube:

The ship is excellent. I like how she sails forth on the calm seas of Tabula tenyz .

many thanks for the video and the hires pics! much apreciated...!

one quiestion tho... since i am atm working on a bigger scale pirate ship of my own...if you are interrested you can have a look at my blog...^^ i wondered if you will on this or a future projects involve ropes and ladders... you now that stuff ol erol flynn climbed around and such likes...


or will you skip that stuff for playability? not that your ship lacks them i was just interested... because i think for my sons ship i can´t get away without those...it is playmobil sized and will need more options in gaming...

thanks again for the better pics!

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:many thanks for the video and the hires pics! much apreciated...!

one quiestion tho... since i am atm working on a bigger scale pirate ship of my own...if you are interrested you can have a look at my blog...^^ i wondered if you will on this or a future projects involve ropes and ladders... you now that stuff ol erol flynn climbed around and such likes...

or will you skip that stuff for playability? not that your ship lacks them i was just interested... because i think for my sons ship i can´t get away without those...it is playmobil sized and will need more options in gaming...

vik

I will skip these, but I think I would do them by cutting the shape of the cables into a 1mm thick piece of cardboard, substracting several polygons to be left with a web-like pattern in cardboard.

I have started working on the second ship. It will be much smaller than the previous one, as you can already see from the structure in these pics.







I am quite worried about it being way too small indeed. I will build it, however. I suppose I will find a way to use it. I intended it to be smaller, but now that I have it in my hands, it looks much smaller... a full sized warband will be pretty tight there.

thanks for the hints...

and i dunno, i think you need to make more progress to finally say if it is too small... after all you are dealing with fantasy here and so i think there is room for many sizes of ship hulls...who says it has to be a certain size? your built as is looks very promising!

IT Could be like a viking rowing style empire ship, maybe with a steam driven oars?

now that sounds nifty!

Capitansolstice wrote:IT Could be like a viking rowing style empire ship, maybe with a steam driven oars?

I plan to equip the ship with huge lanteen sails, in this fashion:



I think that is what might save the model, as it will look huge even if its hull is smaller.

I will do a pair of rowing boats after this one, based on some ancient chinese transport and boarding boats, for the skaven. After all, they have the slaves needed to propell the boat with raw man(rat)power.



It will be mostly based on the rowing boat filled with soldiers in the bottom of this picture.

After that, maybe I shall start with the dwarven ironclad (which will be mostly based on the Dreadfleet model)

Woohoo giant dreadfleet FTW

i am loving the work here, and i ask might i take that template of yours so that it can be used for mordheim terrain?

Yeah, Giant Dreadfleet would be awesome, don't you think so? xD

The main deck has been assembled, and I have put some reference models on it, so you can judge its size:

Rogue Wolves wrote:i am loving the work here, and i ask might i take that template of yours so that it can be used for mordheim terrain?

The closest thing I have to templates is the pic you have seen in this pic. Otherwise, the *.Cad file is a mess. Maybe some day I will do a manual with templates, like I did with this:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B8VrdrhPEjhmZjdhOWJmM2MtNDAxZi00OGM1LWJlMTktN2YyMzcxODE4ZmQ4&hl=en

But it takes time, and I'd rather build the fleet before and have the rules I have written to play with ships translated and tested. Maybe templates and instructions could go together with the final rules "release"

i just had to download your cathedral...dunno if i ever will be building it but that is so artful i just had to^^

and i like the size of the new ship! looks slim and fast! with skaven on board it could be a nasty thing!

Wow. That is simply amazing work.

I hope to be building some more segments soon. I'm out to look for something to build the masts from

I just built the Lego Black Pearl and the Queen Anne's Revenge, so that is the limit of my shipbuilding experience but It is amazing how sturdy the masts need to be even to support lego spars and rigging. Can you use wood with the cardboard construction?

Finally, I have some progress to show you.

You can see here a teaser of how the ship will be decorated.

The doors are extremely tiny indeed. Lets just pretend pirates squeeze through them xD

lol...squeeze^^ or walk the plank^^

One (or maybe two) layers left to finish this ship side

slightly warped due to the rubber abnds... but i think it gained a lot for looks that way...feels more weathered now...very cool work!