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.
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| Left to Right: Niagara, Constellation, Prince de Neufchatel, US Schooner |
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| Working on the masts, showing fighting tops stencils |
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| Tracing the sails on cloth |
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| Sorting the formed cloth sails |
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| Constellation |
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| 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.
