[MoW] Swabbing the Poop Deck...

[Stormwind]

One day, I hope to have a Man o War game for the first time with such pieces!

[Dave]

Thanks guys.

I do council you to study too the sail problem.

I ended up scanning the sails and printing them out (double sided!) on some canvas paper. The canvas gives a good texture to them. I'm going to have to touch up the edges with paint but otherwise that's it. They should look good from any angle.

[Blindhorizon]

These ships look awesome, especially the highlights on the black what color(s) are you using for that? I would like to see how that canvas paper comes out as well.

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[Dave]

They're Army Painter Matt Black, with Uniform Gray edge highlights and Ash Gray top edge highlights. They're pretty close to the old Chaos Black, Codex Gray and Fortress Gray.

[Blindhorizon]

Thank you sir.

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[marell le fou]

Canvas paper is a nice idea ! I long to have pictures of your sails. I'm sure it will make a huge difference.

We really lack recent painting job on MOW. It's an old game and all the figs are usually pretty ugly. All mines are painted in the hold heavy metal style... Uniform colors. No highlights, etc.

[Dave]

Remember this thread? I came back to these as a painting tangent for this weekend, after glueing some pennants on my Man O' War Empire fleet last week I put down the base coats and washes on each.



The colors are different enough to keep the squadrons separate, I'd like to add decals at somepoint but tracking down The Armory decals I'm after isn't easy for cheap.

[Zorcon]

Great work!! Especially the waves and sails.

[Geep]

Nice work. Any plans to vary the sails and make them distinguishable for the game?

[Lex]

I think the pennants on the mast-tops are used for that

[Geep]

Well spotted Lex- thanks

[Dave]

Yep, six different color combos for the six squadrons, plus the order of the patterns differentiate each ship in the squadron.

[berzerkmonkey]

What's it like to have simple pennants? Mine are covered in unicorns and boars, and there are so, so many...

[Dave]

The men of the Empire's fleet are simple. If it's not red, we ram it. Things with flowery symbols on them we ram twice.