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A player/DM of other paths is 90 percent done building the maiden for shipboard things. But I found these to be a great asset to the chase and initial confrontation to ship combat on a grid. They even come with little island cards and they are cheap!
http://www.amazon.com/Unknown-6210-Pirates-Rise-Fiends/dp/B0013EKB3S/ref=pd _ys_sf_s_165793011_b2_1_p
Multiple different kinds of sets but basically they are cards that you pop out the different shapes and just click them together to make a ship.
They look a lot like this.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4fpoyye1f5jc9zv/FB6J-XW3HX
which is awesome.
Good luck. Thanks everybody on these forums. I have never posted but i have pulled so much useful information.
Including things like Hero Lab Generated characters.
good day.
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I have a large collection of the first three-four sets of Pirates of the Spanish Main (up to the Barbary Coast IIRC), plus some extras that I traded with a friend, and they look and work AWESOME for gridded ship combat (hex side of a large Chessex battlemat).
With the large number of ships I have stocked in a carefully guarded box, I think I may be able to pull out a sizeable naval battle, involving a hundred and fifty different ships.
Highly recommended.
Great minds think alike! ;D
As soon as I saw the cutout ship counters in the back of the S&S Players Guide I thought of the Spanish Main game models.
I have a few of these, and am going to cull extras out of a friend's big collection. Between the two of us I hope to have enough ships to do the Regatta and any larger battles that may come along later.
I'm going to glue the ships together, paint out the white edges of the plastic pieces to match whatever part of the model the piece is supposed to be, and mount them on proper-sized blue bases. Should be pretty cool when finished, as the Spanish Main ships are beautiful little miniatures in and of themselves.
Scored a few starter set for the WizKids Pirate ship game on clearance. (Even got a a Flying Dutchman out of it.)
However, they've proven pretty chincey in putting them together. Good thing there's still a bunch of 'em in the bin at my local hobby store...
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Not great pics, but this is what I ended up doing.
Made them out of thin plywood and the table out of an 8' x 5' dry erase board scored into 1inch squares.
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Not great pics, but this is what I ended up doing.
Made them out of thin plywood and the table out of an 8' x 5' dry erase board scored into 1inch squares.
OK, you win for sheer awesome! Not practical for me at the moment, but that has given me something to think about.
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Printed the ship models from the players guide for chase and initial siege fire before bringing out actual models during the boarding action.
Here's my foam board ship model The Man's Promise.
Thin inexpensive wood board for the base. 5/16 dowel rods to represent the masts. Three holes for the masts to fit in. Glue to hold in place or make hole slightly smaller if you would rather twist dowels in. Foam board for all layers other than base. Clothes pins placed just under each level directly onto each mast in order to hold up the levels. Masts are marked in 5 foot intervals to represent climbing, which the lookout spots can be lowered to place miniature in correct height position during combat.
Planning on making a few more water vehicle types to be used with foam board boarding planks.
Also made 20 foot radius, 100 ft height, height/depth markers for aerial combat or underwater combat.
Scored a few starter set for the WizKids Pirate ship game on clearance. (Even got a a Flying Dutchman out of it.)
However, they've proven pretty chincey in putting them together. Good thing there's still a bunch of 'em in the bin at my local hobby store...
Meh. I've since spent the $4 on some posterboard and have done the top view for now, as I've managed to keep "below decks" activities to role-playing and the dry erase gridded magnetic-board I use for quick drawing battle scenes. I'll use the "mini-ships" for the chase/rundown and other nautical events - like the Regatta, but needed something more for actual ship events.
And for the "up in the rigging" feel... Well let's just say that a one inch miniature base typically fits on top of most glass bottle beers (even opened ones) fairly easy (as long as you don't nudge them too much) and leave it at that.
I've actually spent about $15 at Home Depo for a giant foam board used for insulation in houses and a few 1/2 inch doweling rods. I made stencils on ghost-line poster board based on the plans in the module and used those to cut the main-, for-, and aft-decks from the foam and cut masts from the doweling rods. Glued it all together and put some 4 inch cardboard circles on the foretops, crow's nests, and mizzen-tops.
So far a fifth of my giant foam board has made two awesome ship's for our games this week.
an inspiration. i bought a large markerboard sheet at lowes. hoping to construct some ships o'me own :)
I will have to share some pics when I get the chance.
I have the PDFs of the Maiden. In addition I found a number of papercraft PDFs out there for free, Disney relased one called the Wicked Wench. There are several others if you search for papercraft pirates or ships (includeing the Black Pearl). I am not sure if they will be the right scale is my one concern. Though I could enlarge them to 8.5 by 11 easiy enough. I have been saving all my serial boxes and other thin carboard I can get my hands on for backing (free beats sheets of foam core). I am hoping to do a few of these before the need comes up in my campaign. The printing cost can get you if your not careful but we have a pretty nice discount for a local office supply place. It should be a fun project.
Here is the download for the Wicked Wench.
http://www.disneyexperience.com/models/wwench_model.php
Well it is about 7 inches wide and 22 long. I am hoping that can be turned into a 6 square wide 18 square long deck. The fixtures and various details may be the wrong size perhaps I can have a goblin boat. If it is overly small printing it on 11 by 17 should help some.
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All,
Having been inspired by this thread and Xenomorph 27's post in particular, I took a crack at making a model for use in a campaign in which I'm a player. I didn't trust my ability to draw a straight line, so I purchased the .pdf of the flip mat, printed it on cardstock, glued the cardstock to foam board and... well, the below is the final result, along with a link to a google presentation on how it came together.
Thanks for the inspiration.
I just wanted to say thanks for the idea. I ended up using it myself to make a ship for my upcoming S&S campaign.
You're very welcome! Hope it works well for you.
In retrospect, I think I should have glued the supports to the top of the deck (rather than the bottom), but otherwise it's been working fairly well for us.
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Snowheart, thank you for your inspiration. I want to share my version with the folks as I tried some improvements:
As you can see, its the Wormwood from the map pack. I left out the bilge because of stability reasons ( and it would have looked ugly). I considered using Black foam Board first, but took wooden boards instead. The stairs are made from the same material. I even made two stepholes in each of them to hold fighting combatants.
One Thing I learned from papermodel building is 'edging'.
Just take a black marker (Edding or the like) and paint all edges from paper, Wood, foam board, whatever BLACK. You could use brown on a ship though. The effect is massive.
A picture of the wormwood itself can be googled. You will see three different masts with rigging etc.
Using transparent rigging from Fat Dragon Games takes some space and could spoil the playing fun, but it looks much better than without any rigging. I defined the diameter from the crowsnest with the help of a regular D&D Minibase
Maybe I will even add some raised sails. And definitly a steering wheel ;-)
For stability: the three masts are very helpful, but I needed at least three wall-tiles for the main decks to avoid seasickness.
That's it. Two more days and the wormwood is ready for adventure.
Hope you like it!
I must say you guys have gone all out in building those ships! I have a cat that could be that ones twin! I have just been using the map pack and before that the print out of the ship.
They used to sell blue square and hex maps but I can't find them on the net anywhere. Now I wish I had picked them up.
I haven't started the campaign yet, but when i first read the AP it was obvious that simple ship tiles wouldnt help playing on board the ships.
The idea with the playmobil pirate ship is ok, but only for ship to ship Combat or simple on deck happenings.
That's why i love this forum, solutions and ideas for every possibility!