There Be Pirates Here-Black Pearl-Just for Fun Repaint

[Mr Roberts]

Some really great work in here guys!

Andy, you should save your graphics for these as PDFs and upload them to the Files System. We can setup a category for Pirate Ships in there where people can get every thing they need in one spot.

I can do this. I would like to get a couple finalized first then I will transfer and upload them to the Files.

[The Royal Hajj]

I can do this. I would like to get a couple finalized first then I will transfer and upload them to the Files.

That would be great. I would ask that you make and upload a separate file for each ship (easier to manage down the road if need be).

[Mr Roberts]

Some really great work in here guys!

Andy, you should save your graphics for these as PDFs and upload them to the Files System. We can setup a category for Pirate Ships in there where people can get every thing they need in one spot.

Keith,

I have the Black Pearl set up as a PDF and ready to upload. Did you want me to wait until the Pirate Ships category is setup before I upload it?

[7eat51]

That is an interesting/intriguing repaint, Jaime. I, too, don't think it is horrible, at all - I like the red a lot. It will make a statement on the table, for sure.

I really like these ships. I think they will make for great gateways when introducing nonwargamers to SoG. For young newbies, I think they would enjoy a pirate theme much more than a Napoleonic theme for their first game. It is easier for them to get their imagination into the game, some measure of familiarity there. Once a game or two is under their belt, I can see how easy it would be to usher in Napoleonic's, especially in conjunction with a movie or an episode of Hornblower.

[RickyBobbyFan]

That is an interesting/intriguing repaint, Jaime. I, too, don't think it is horrible, at all - I like the red a lot. It will make a statement on the table, for sure.

I really like these ships. I think they will make for great gateways when introducing nonwargamers to SoG. For young newbies, I think they would enjoy a pirate theme much more than a Napoleonic theme for their first game. It is easier for them to get their imagination into the game, some measure of familiarity there. Once a game or two is under their belt, I can see how easy it would be to usher in Napoleonic's, especially in conjunction with a movie or an episode of Hornblower.

Hi guys, sorry I meant my photo taking ability is bad. The finished product
Does look very good, thank you for the compliments on the
Ship. Can't wait to set sail with it. Jim & Andy
Thank so much for your support on this fun project.
Keep the great ideas coming.

[The Royal Hajj]

What file format are the flags in?

[Nightmoss]

What file format are the flags in?

At the moment in MS Publisher, or .pub file. I could probably change them to .jpg or .png without much hassle? Let me go try.

[The Royal Hajj]

If you have the ability to make the canvas or page size the standard 8.5x11 while keeping the graphics the correct size, save them as either JPG or PNG. One of us can convert that image to a PDF and combine it with Andy's PDF file.

[The Royal Hajj]

If you guys keep this up, we might have to have a special Pirate section here on the forums.

[Nightmoss]

If you guys keep this up, we might have to have a special Pirate section here on the forums.

Well, if Ares follows through on their FB statement that might be something for down the road? Pirates and Privateers are popular.

[Coog]

A separate pirate game set in the Golden Age of Piracy would probably do well. It could use the current game system or something similar to it. It would be like WGF and WGS, similar but different. A Kickstarter would do well if Ares wanted to finance it that way.

[The Royal Hajj]

I think they are going to stick to historic pirates. But fictional and embellished pirates ships could be come a very popular hobby aspect. I actually think they would do well to license Pirates of the Caribbean (they already license LotR) and do a full range in that setting. Pirates are very popular as we all know and going to the fictional side of things allows lots of options that would not otherwise be available. Build in a little bit of role play or captain building and they would be staring at a chest full of gold!

[RickyBobbyFan]

Hi Andy, I used the HMS Concorde 1783 for the Queen Anne's revenge.
Could you please change the Manuever deck to A? Then it will be ready
To print and play. Thank you once again for doing this.

[Mr Roberts]

Hi Andy, I used the HMS Concorde 1783 for the Queen Anne's revenge.
Could you please change the Manuever deck to A? Then it will be ready
To print and play. Thank you once again for doing this.

Jaime,

I'm currently at work and I do not have all of the information in front of me, but is the maneuver deck letter the only thing you need me to change?

I can check the other info tonight and get it changed and posted.


Andy

[RickyBobbyFan]

Jaime,

I'm currently at work and I do not have all of the information in front of me, but is the maneuver deck letter the only thing you need me to change?

I can check the other info tonight and get it changed and posted.


Andy

Hi Andy,

Yes sir. Just the Manuever deck change from C to A would be awesome. Thank you Sir!

[Mr Roberts]

Hi Andy,

Yes sir. Just the Manuever deck change from C to A would be awesome. Thank you Sir!

Ahoy Jaime,

How does these look?


Andy

[Nightmoss]

Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, as measured by vessels captured, taking over 470 prizes in his career. He is also known as Black Bart (Welsh: Barti Ddu), but this name was never used in his lifetime. In the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation, protagonist Westley dons the mantle of the Dread Pirate Roberts, a mythical figure inspired by Bartholomew Roberts.

Image and information taken directly from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts

Roberts main ship was the Royal Fortune, of which he had several over the course of his career. The Royal Fortune is my latest pirate repaint. I used the SoG starter set ship Courageuse 1778 as the base for this interpretation. Cheers!

[RickyBobbyFan]

Jim, outstanding work-the red really stands out. Did you post already on how you added all the rigging and additional lines ans where you got the supplies to make them?

[Mr Roberts]

Jim,

Amazing as always sir. I really like the look of the red and the weathered sails. I will have your ship card and stats later this evening or tomorrow.

Andy

[Nightmoss]

Jim, outstanding work-the red really stands out. Did you post already on how you added all the rigging and additional lines ans where you got the supplies to make them?

Thanks! The rigging is directly from Rod Langton's book on painting and rigging Age of Sail ships. Check out this thread on our site for the book and information on supplies as well: http://www.sailsofglory.org/content....-HMS-Sovereign

One place I know of you can purchase the book: http://waterloominis.com/oscommerce/...roducts_id=242

Jim,

Amazing as always sir. I really like the look of the red and the weathered sails. I will have your ship card and stats later this evening or tomorrow.

Andy

Thanks Andy! There's no rush. I've got more touch up work to do and many other ships lined up for assembly and painting.

[Mr Roberts]

Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, as measured by vessels captured, taking over 470 prizes in his career. He is also known as Black Bart (Welsh: Barti Ddu), but this name was never used in his lifetime. In the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation, protagonist Westley dons the mantle of the Dread Pirate Roberts, a mythical figure inspired by Bartholomew Roberts.

Image and information taken directly from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts


Roberts main ship was the Royal Fortune, of which he had several over the course of his career. The Royal Fortune is my latest pirate repaint. I used the SoG starter set ship Courageuse 1778 as the base for this interpretation. Cheers!

Jim, Here are the ship base card and ship stat card for the Royal Fortune. I hope they do your fine ship justice.


Andy

[Andy Blozinski]

Anyone know how to get hold of Andy Roberts? He hasn't logged on in weeks and I was hoping he could modify the pirate logs he made so they would work for my ship.

[Gunner]

That red & black paint scheme looks great.

[Nightmoss]

That red & black paint scheme looks great.

Thanks, Ed. The red isn't quite as bright as it's coming through on the photos. I suspect it's the heavy blue mat background that's weirding out the camera?

[Пилот]

Amazing stuff can be found here
Bravo!

[RickyBobbyFan]

I printed out the ship card and mat. Please find a photo taken from an iPhone. Andy you do amazing work.

[Nightmoss]

Looks great, Jaime!!

[Пилот]

Fine

[Nightmoss]

Hi Andy,

The ship card and log look great!! Thanks very much for doing this. I'm going to be busy with a model railroad show so I probably wont get any printing and photos done until early next week. Thanks again!!

[7eat51]

Great work on the card, Andy.

I'm going to be busy with a model railroad show so I probably wont get any printing and photos done until early next week.

The used bookstore by my house is clearing out quite a few books. I stopped by there today, and I saw a decent sized collection of model and real locomotive/railroad type books. If you're looking for anything, let me know. I will stop by there again next week and can take a look for you.

[PirateBlake]

Argg, the repaint look awesome. Andy the cards and logs are great. And I approve of a pirate section

[Nightmoss]

It's finally warmed up enough so I can go back to the basement work area and start working again on SoG repaints, etc. Here are two photos of the Black Pearl and Royal Fortune and the other two repaints I've managed to date. Custom card work by Andy. I've not cut out the ship log that Andy did or a new label for the Royal Fortune's other base, but that will come soon, if it stays warm enough. Cheers!

[RickyBobbyFan]

Awesome work Jim!

[mt1ss bob]

these are so awesome!!!! wish I was talented enough to do this!!!

[SeaRoyal20]

Nice. Are there duplicate cards already?

[Nightmoss]

Nice. Are there duplicate cards already?

These are custom crafted cards by Andy (nothing officially sanctioned by Ares, or anyone else). I believe he's posted the files on our site for download?

[Пилот]

Really great looking fleet! Awesome!

[Nightmoss]

Well, another ship has joined the Pirate Fleet. However, this ship, captain and crew answer to no ones navy; pirate or otherwise. I give you the Flying Dutchman (text below is from Wikipedia). Cheers!

The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from 17th-century nautical folklore. The oldest extant version dates to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman will try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.

P.S. Sure hope those custom Anchorage ratlines would hurry up and get here?

[Hobbes]

That is an amazing paint job. Really nice looking sails, I can see my sailors shiver upon site of them.

[Nightmoss]

One last ship for my pirate fleet, which now includes all the ships from the SoG starter set. I really liked how Jaime's (RickyBobbyFan) Queen Anne's Revenge turned out so I decided to use the British ship HMS Defense as the base model and painted it as close to what I think he had as a final version? It's now ready for rigging.

If Wikipedia can be trusted in this the Queen Anne's Revenge was originally a British frigate (Concord) built in 1710 and later captured by the French one year later. She was renamed La Concorde de Nantes and converted into a slave ship.

Sailing as a slave ship, she was captured by the pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold on November 28, 1717, near the island of Martinique. Hornigold turned her over to one of his men —Edward Teach, later known as Blackbeard—and made him her captain. Teach's first mate, Christopher Blackwood (known as Blackbeard's Claw), was feared as a ferocious fighter and led many of Blackbeard's boarding parties.

You can find the rest of the story here with additional information on a wreck found off North Carolina in 1996 that may well be the real Queen Anne's Revenge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne's_Revenge

[Andy Blozinski]

I absolutely love how the sails on the Flying Dutchman look. That green is perfectly ghostly spooky. You need to do something with the hull to go along with it. I'm thinking maybe you should try a light wash of that same green and do a practice run on something to see if you can get the suggestion of green glow from the hull, but still keep the basics of how it looks.

[Nightmoss]

I absolutely love how the sails on the Flying Dutchman look. That green is perfectly ghostly spooky. You need to do something with the hull to go along with it. I'm thinking maybe you should try a light wash of that same green and do a practice run on something to see if you can get the suggestion of green glow from the hull, but still keep the basics of how it looks.

Thanks for the suggestion, Andy. I'd thought about doing the hull in the same green, but was concerned that it might be overkill. I went ahead and tried it this morning with a light black wash over the green to tone it down a bit. I think it turned out OK? Here are a couple of shots to see what you think?

[RotS-Targe]

Thanks for the suggestion, Andy. I'd thought about doing the hull in the same green, but was concerned that it might be overkill. I went ahead and tried it this morning with a light black wash over the green to tone it down a bit. I think it turned out OK? Here are a couple of shots to see what you think?

I'm a little late, but, please tell me her sails glow in the dark.
(overkill?)

[Coog]

I'm a little late, but, please tell me her sails glow in the dark.
(overkill?)

Hmmm...There is glow in the dark paint.

[Nightmoss]

I'm a little late, but, please tell me her sails glow in the dark.
(overkill?)

They don't actually glow in the dark, but they do reflect and react to light in a rather eerie manner. Kind of creepy as a matter of fact.

[Gunner]

Now that is a nice touch to the Flying Dutchman, Jim. I also like your use of the brown.
No kings ship would dare go near it.

[Andy Blozinski]

I think that might be a good starting point. I was thinking in terms of a faint green "glow" from the hull in general. I think the stronger green sides works out well to set the tone, but you wouldn't want that all over. The brown accents do look good as well. What might top it all off is a light green wash only on the deck sections. It's kind of a risky move, so I would suggest a practice run on some other surface or mini. Some green settled down into the surface and still having the other projections (boats, cannons, etc) brown will probably give it just enough ghostly hint.

[Nightmoss]

I finished up the Queen Anne's Revenge today. Some photos for the record. These ships improve so dramatically with a minimal amount of effort. I can't wait to see how the brass ratlines coming from the Anchorage Store will enhance them even more. Cheers!

[Andy Blozinski]

What you have been doing is not minimal effort! You've been putting lots of quality work into these and it shows.
I've just been painting the masts, cross beams and putting a wash on the sails. That's minimal effort. But...your statement is quite accurate. This minimal level of effort has a huge positive impact on how the mini looks.
When I get my wave 2 ships in, I fully plan on doing one of the heavy frigates up Hollywood pirate style and you have been the inspiration. I've never rigged a ship before and I just might go for it. I'm thinking on going for the Royal Fortune look you did as I really like that. It's going to have the ratlines and just maybe the rigging. When I do my demos, I want to have three levels of detail so prospective players can see the flexibility of options
1) Factory stock
2) Minimal level = masts, sails washed and maybe ratlines. I might do minimal level with and without ratlines.
3) All out = hull detail, masts, sails washed, ratlines, and rigging.

[Gunner]

To me rigging is a maximum effort/level. Ratlines with Keith's brass would be the easy part. Thanks Keith.