Crew for my 1/250 Scale Brig of War

War Artisan's Jeff Knudsen gave me an idea recently about crew for the 1/300 card sloop I posted. While I didn't follow his suggestion, it got me thinking about ways I could accomplish creating my own version of ship crews. I thought about the Eduard flat metal figures I ordered way back and how they were just too thin to look right to me at the 1/1200 scale I tried to use them for. So then I thought about the 1/1200 Card Fortress Redoute I built and the paper figures that came with it. They weren't too bad, thicker than the Eduard figs due to the double card used.

So I started looking for paper crew figures on Pinterest. I found what I needed and saved the images. Then I inserted the jpg files into a Word document and resize until the figures were 1/4-inch. After sizing, I copied each image and pasted it against the first image, then flipped it horizontal to create a mirror image. Once printed and cutout, I folded and glued the two halves together to create a double sided figure. Once cut out the figures were touched up with paint or colored pens. Here are the results. Not pretty with close up scrutiny, but at a distance they look good to me.

1960's 1/250 scale Pyro Brig

It has been quite a while since my last post, last June in fact. The summer was not that busy and I had plenty of time to spend in the shipyard, but to tell the truth the creative juices just dried up. I sat down in the dungeon a lot and thought of doing something, anything! It just wasn't there. I watched a lot of movies, got caught up on everything Netflix and Amazon Prime had to offer. Without gamers to play with, I just lost the incentive to build anything for gaming.

Now it is winter and too wet to play outdoors. My UK friend Rory recently finished a beautiful 1/500 scale Airfix Victory. It turned out so nice I was inspired to build an old 1960's 1/250 scale Pyro Brig of War I picked up on eBay a while back. It was a partial build so I had to take it apart first and clean it up. It was two cannon short, had a broken mast, and was missing the flags and stern decal. I chose not to make ratlines for it, so just rigged the shrouds. There is no ship's boat, which I have always thought odd with these models, and I just didn't feel like taking the time to make one (I am just barely out of my creative block after all). So here she is: