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A good article on building and collecting naval ships for table top gaming.
I am not running or playing Skull and Shackles, but I will some day. When that day comes, I want a physical ship for my miniatures to run around on. I want physical ships to board and use in the game. The article linked above is a great resource on how to either build your own, or find one to play with.
If you find a link to a properly scaled ship, or have pictures of your own, post them here! We want to see the ship that strikes fear into the hearts of those that live your part of the Shackles!
That stuff looks really great. If most of it would not be so expensive i could really get into it. I´ve been thinking about using my old Lego pirate ship.
However probably we´re gonna stick to flip matt and papers.
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RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32
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Yeah, having a ship like those isn't cheap. Maybe what you could do is talk to your local gaming store about buying off of you once you are no longer playing with it, or even convince them to help fund the project. If they fund the project, you could agree to let them hold onto it when you are not using it.
Unfortunately there is only one gaming store here left and its into warhammer 40k only. I´ll see how this will be handled, there are some old ship models somewhere i guess and if not building one with balsawood seems liek fun.
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Gameworks sells printable cardstock models, and one of them is a very nice modular sailing ship. I built mine out of foamcore. It's super sexxy, lightweight, durable, and cost me under $35 for the files and all craft supplies. On top of that, I can just re-print it as many times as I want and build more ships! They even have a modding community [if I recall correctly] devoted to tweaking the models. Definitely worth a look-see.
The Worldworksgames stuff looks really cool and most of it has a fair price!
I couldn´t find Gameworks though yet, could you maybe provie a link please?
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Honestly, no. Cardstock models are *not* the best solution here. The Maiden takes a long time to build, is at least as expensive when all the ink/toner and cardstock is take into account as a pre-made ship that admirably suits the purpose for FAR less of an investment in build time.
The best solution are the Magablocks pirate vessels, especially those produced for the Pirates of the Caribbean line. E-bay em.
See HERE for more inspiration.
I read about the ink and material costs and time investment, thank you for pointing that out. I liked the fact that you could lift decks etc though and other products of that line seem nice too.
The mega blok stuff doesn´t look so inviting to me though, i would rather use real Lego stuff then.
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Eeep! I meant Worldworks. Disconnect between fingers and brain!
As for time investment; yes it takes a little bit to put together, but for us crafty-folks, that tends to be a non-issue. As I mentioned, I already had most of the stuff on hand for other projects. Biggest cost for me was the ship plans. Two sheets of foamcore were around $3 each. I just printed on standard paper and used spray adhesive & a roller to stick them to the foamcore. Took about two weekends with other projects going on at the same time.
My only real problem was that my printer doesn't process transparencies, so I replaced the rigging with hemp twine. It's about the same scale size as actual rigging.
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Just returning to offer an idea that I am going to use at PaizoCon.
Take Gaming Paper and cut out a template for each of decks. Mount on cardboard. Draw out details as desired. If you want to stack them on top of each other, find something tall but study enough to hold one deck above the other. I suggest you just have the decks next to each other, in an order that makes sense as someone moves from one to the other.
Just returning to offer an idea that I am going to use at PaizoCon.
Take Gaming Paper and cut out a template for each of decks. Mount on cardboard. Draw out details as desired. If you want to stack them on top of each other, find something tall but study enough to hold one deck above the other. I suggest you just have the decks next to each other, in an order that makes sense as someone moves from one to the other.
This is pretty much what I'm doing, but I might add one or two inch sides to the top and main deck to lift it off the table and make it seem slightly more dangerous for boardings. (Falling into water, etc.) Thinking about just using thick foam board.