Hi folks, over last few weeks I have been making progress on a Corsairs of Umbar themed ship.
This originally started off as a quickie for my young son to play with his toy soldiers [caesar fantasy range 1/72] with after he saw the ships on Battle for MiddleEarth II for PC.
But it kinda grew and will probably see service in a SBG LOTR game, once I get the corsair crew painted up.
I used the guide in one of the BgiME magazines, as a basis to work from.
The ship is about 30cm long (deck area), and 12 cm wide.
I hope these pics work, I am still not very good with these forum-thingies!
If they do, I'll keep you updated with progress.
Hope you like it.
Cheers
update 28/9/9 - picture with added orc for figure scale as requested
sorry I have not got much further with this, I got distracted by another project:
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=181166#181166
update 3/10/9
a few more pics of progress, have added deck grills, redesigned rudder, added side plating & "kite shield" shapes. Added stern Sauron style hull spikes...
Update 10/10/9
Fixed the whoopsie of my upside down kite shield hull armour. Made and added Anchor, and its rope. Tried several ways to make a steering wheel for ship out of balsa and dowel, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the attempts so I went to local model shop and bought a one for NZ$7.
So that is the ships manufacturing complete. Just got to paint it now.
update 30/11/9 - have base coated ship now: Dark brown for wooden hull and structures, black for sails. Its getting there slowly...
update 8/12/9 - a picture of first coat of paint, brown for hull, and black for sail. More work to go...
Finally got round to finishing this project today. Main thing was tidying up the basecoat, adding a weathered-look to the wood, dry brushing the sails slightly, and doing the rusted metal effect on hull armour plates and anchor.
Hope you like it.
Here, Khardush the Firecaller leads an orc horde up the coast on a raid on Gondors southern shores.