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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

1/450 USS Constellation

Summer is a busy time for us, with all of the outdoor yard and field work required to maintain our acreage. That being said, I started working on these four 1\450 scale 3D printed ships back in early May. Three of the four ships are the US privateer Prince de Neufchatel (18 carronades), a US 8 gun schooner, and the 20-gun snow brig USS Niagara, by Henry Turner Miniatures. The remaining ship is the USS Constellation 38 gun frigate, by Simon Mann. 


Left to Right: Niagara, Constellation, Prince de Neufchatel, US Schooner




Working on the masts, showing fighting tops stencils




Tracing the sails on cloth

Sorting the formed cloth sails

Constellation


Mounting the sails



The finished USS Constellation beauty shots:









Three more to finish now. Niagara next.

I was fortunate to get invited over to Jonathan Freitag's house for a face to face game last month. The War of the Roses Battle of Mortimer's Cross. I took Pembroke and the Lancastrian army, and Jon commanded Edward and his Yorkists. It was a resounding defeat for Lancaster, imitating the historical outcome. The battle report can be found on Jon's Palouse Wargaming Journal at https://palousewargamingjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/battle-of-mortimers-cross.html
It appears that Edward has lost the field a couple of times now in successive remote gaming refights.
Hopefully it won't be another year before we get the opportunity to play another face to face game.