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.
10 comments:
Outstanding craftsmanship, Vol. I really don’t know how you do it. We will not let a year pass before getting you back to the table. I am pondering what to bring to the table next.
Terrific work Vol, and the sails are next level. I can't believe you went to all that trouble, but well worth the effort. How did you attach them to the spars? That looks like fiddly work.
Strange, the above comment was flagged as anonymous. Anyway, lovely work as I say.
Thanks Jon. I look forward to playing any conflict you choose to set on the table. It's been more than 30 years since I've had such fun.
ship looks great Vol. don't let the summer bugs eat you with all the yard work!
Thanks Lawrence. I tie the sails to the spars with 8/0W fly tying thread. I don't like using glue, especially on cloth sails. I used to attach the scratch paper sails I make using superglue, but found they would pop off months later. They never come off when tied.
Haha, thanks Stew, I'll try not to.
It's been a while since I checked your blog. I'll have to visit and see what you've been up to.
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