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It looks like you live in an old School building?
The ship is really, totally badass btw.

I have continued work on the ship... but I found due to asymetry during assembly, the other side piece was not long enough to cover the whole side, so I need to scrap it and build it again. Certainly a minor setback

I was wondering, what do you think should be the name of the ship? I was thinking about my favourite TV series, and "John Sheridan" or "Serenity" came to my mind. Any suggestions?

too bad to hear about yopur problems...i cross fringers for you to get a good ripping of the false start...and then start over again with more luck...

by the way i have planned a similar project...for my kids...they are soon on a three week holiday with my wife and they are atm totally in the pirate scheme...so in those long and lonley days i want to build them a pirate ship from scratch...the scale will be fitting for their playmobil figures...


would yoiu be able to share your suportive sections...those walls you built the hull with with me to make a substructure for the ship for my kids? this would give me a good headstart in that project...the built will be from wood and cardboard...and later on should withstand the strenght of a five and three year old couple of sons^^

thanks in advance, vik


oh i forgott....as for names... i can´t help you with those shows...but i tink you should name it fitting to the faction this ship is supposed to belong...so if it is an imperial vessel it should be a name that sound like shipnames of british, spainish or french origin...

"...You can't take my cardboard from me..."

Viktor von Domm wrote:too bad to hear about yopur problems...i cross fringers for you to get a good ripping of the false start...and then start over again with more luck...

by the way i have planned a similar project...for my kids...they are soon on a three week holiday with my wife and they are atm totally in the pirate scheme...so in those long and lonley days i want to build them a pirate ship from scratch...the scale will be fitting for their playmobil figures...

would yoiu be able to share your suportive sections...those walls you built the hull with with me to make a substructure for the ship for my kids? this would give me a good headstart in that project...the built will be from wood and cardboard...and later on should withstand the strenght of a five and three year old couple of sons^^

thanks in advance, vik

I do have my own playmobil pirate ship (the official plastic one) laying around somewhere. I remember it was one of the most sought after toys among kids during my childhood.

I see you received my PM. If your kids ever let go of that pirate mood and get into echlesiastic mood, I do have pdf plans for the cardboard building you can see in the first post of that thread xD

Viktor von Domm wrote:
oh i forgott....as for names... i can´t help you with those shows...but i tink you should name it fitting to the faction this ship is supposed to belong...so if it is an imperial vessel it should be a name that sound like shipnames of british, spainish or french origin...

I have been suggested other names like "phantom", "surprise", "Iron maiden", "Acheron", "the feared" (or "El Temido", after Espronceda's poem) "Queen Anne's Revenge" or "Ship Happens"

I do not want to name it after other naval ships, however, but I would like it to be a cool sounding name. Quite short too. Any other suggestions or opinions?

Briancj wrote:"...You can't take my cardboard from me..."

Maybe the "Malcolm Reynolds" would be a bit (a tiny bit) more subtle xD

I have always wanted to build a full-female human Mordheim warband, but my devotion to only use plastic miniatures (no resin, nor metal) has prevented me to do so. I am waiting for some mainstream company to create cool fantasy plastic female adventurer miniatures. When I manage to build the warband, Inara Serra will be the name of one of these girls. That's for sure. Maybe I should name the mage after Lyta Alexander too... Until some company makes decent heroic scale plastic female adventurers, it's only a dream.



I have started correcting the mistakes on the other side of the ship, and it is currently drying. I also worked a bit on the masts. here you can see more progress:






And no, while I know I should be screaming "Arrr" while building the ship, A horrible song is stuck in my head while building the ship. A song that I find hilariously fitting xD
http://youtu.be/R7yfISlGLNU <---- I told you it is a horrible song, you have already been warned xD


I am listening to http://youtu.be/qGyPuey-1Jw in order to compensate xD

How do you feel about some Pirate Metal for motivation?




In other news, it's looking awesome so far. How'd you end up attaching the mast?

well the names all sound very good to me... the spanish ones i personally find very colorful but i think thats a speach thing... for you they might not sound so special...^^ as i expect you are a native speaker^^

so what about:
"la tempestad" ? to use the fastness of that built and it´s look to be covered in the name?

too bad i couldn´t listen to the first vid^^

and... are you sure about the height of the mast? looks really long...but i am no good judge here...but may play hop with your gaming possibilities...

and where is the after castle???

Most of the hull has already been finished. So I present you the ship with the main mast attached. Work on the other masts will have to wait a bit, since the drying process is really slow.

well what could one say to your work...we can´t offer criticism or helpfull comments... we are but able to see a true master at work...when seeing this i feel privileged that you share these gems with us...


vik

OMG, that is looking gorgeous! You have done the usual wonders with cardboard! The railings are just soo artistic and stylized! I love it!

To be honest, if you had not been there boosting my ego, I doubt I would have been able to reach this stage, so you do have played a very important part on this proyect.





Now that I am aproaching the end of this project, as the main hull is nearly finished, I am asking my gaming group what would be good to do next. My initial intention was to create a Mordheim modular board I have already designed, where this boat would serve as a "bridge" of sorts to cross the central river.

However, now I am considering building different boats for every warband (this boat for a pirate user, small Chinese boarding rowing boats for my skaven, a Xebec for another pirate friend, maybe a dwarven steam battleship for someone I know, and a long and sleek vampire counts ship -maybe a ghostship?-) And then, put some islands together to create neutral landmasses, with maybe one featuring a tower of sorts. That way we could arrange all the ships and islands as static scenery for Mordheim games, or even play with moving ships...

I think it will depend mostly on my group reactions, but what do you think about that?

like dreadfleet with a scale of 28mm? how could you ask...sounds incredible...the whole scenario sounds super to me...but the mere words don´t account for the weeks and weeks of hard work...be sure to choose wisely^^ as this miht get out of hand...also the islands idea is very intriguing to me too...creativity is a twinedged sword...but you do know that^^

Oh, that would be a great idea, having the ship in the Port of Mordheim when the comet hit!

The ship is looking very nice, i have to agree with dst , the railings are a great addition. athe port idea sounds brilliant.
if you havent seen dagobahdaves papercraft thread i highly reccomend it , his buildings are very inspiring.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/284759.page

dsteingass wrote:Oh, that would be a great idea, having the ship in the Port of Mordheim when the comet hit!

neil101 wrote: athe port idea sounds brilliant.

In order to clarify... there is no port. There was a port in one of my early designs (I built a virtual board where there was a 60*60 port section with a broken pirateship) but it changed, in order to accomodate all the possible missions of the mordheim rulebook, as well as a much more fulfilling multilevel paths.

There are two options. Either...

A) build a typical mordheim modular board with lots of buildings, a road and a river across it where the ship would be stuck, as if the ship had sailed up to that point and gone aground.

or...

B) build three to four small islands and five to six ships, which could be connected in several ways from game to game, or could be even controlled by the players. That would not be a port, but more like a rocky area not too deep into the sea, with several islands having one building on them. Now that I think about it, it would be like the scenery in Dreadfleet, but in a much smaller scale.

ISLANDS!!!!!^^

Islands definitely sounds like an awesome idea. Especially if you make a stereotypical skull island.

More pics, with masts drying and my 40k army as background:

OMG! That is the most amazing skill and craftsmanship! from one scratchbuilder to another you have my respect!

seriously... that should sit on display in a museum...for every one to be seen...

just as a simple update: I am currently working on developing some rules compatible with the Mordheim rulebook in order to add ships of this size to campaigns, and be able to maneuver them and partake in naval warfare. This will take some time, and should be tested, of course.

I am writing this in Spanish, Maybe I can translate it into English once the early testing is completed, although my lack of experience with Mordheim ensures these rules will need tweaking.

have fun inventing those rules!

I finally got some good pics of the ship with a decent camera:

by the way... as i am stunned by these pics of your ship i gotta ask... how did you got the billowing look of the sails done? how did you bend them so nice?

and...

any plans when you will be hitting that beauty with some paint? and have you chosen a paintschmee already?

That is just fantastic!

stunned by your works! now, all you need to do, is work on ropes and accessories for the ship! and it need an amazing crew!

This is aw inspiring! A+++

BADASS

Guess what's going on:

Undercoated



Basecoated



Then black ink applied and sails painted in a yellowish tone



I still need to do the windows and highlight the whole thing

oh so very cool! close ups please?