I finished off the new additions to my South Sea Islander forces for Galleys & Galleons over the weekend - six catamarans and six groups of canoes, as described in my previous post.
I did them with two subtly different colour schemes so that they can fight each other if required. Yellow bows on the left and black bows on the right.
In addition I made the catamarans on the one side all single-masted. I'm not sure about the sails on the tow furthest and may redo them at some stage. The advantage of these simple scratchbuilds is that stuff like that is easy; I'm only dealing with card, paper and PVA.
Here they are with one of my medium galleons for scale.
One small issue is that since I last did any prints of the sea-texture I use for the bases, we have a acquired a new printer, replacing our old inkjet with a colour laser printer. And the colour reproduction of this new printer is a lot better, as you can see from the brighter bases of the new models compared to the four older ones.
I didn't make any more outriggers (as shown in the last post), but may do that as my next project.
They do look good! Inexpensive, quick, and playable. I did wonder how you got your sea-going bases looking the way they do. Didn't even cross my mind they were printed. Can you tell me the source? Cheers.
ReplyDeleteI used one of my own photos, and edited the texture in Photoshop. I just print it out as required, glue it to the card and then trim as necessary. You can see the original texture here:
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These are lovely.
ReplyDeleteClever ! A good way to explore and usual theme.
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