Black Seas

[Capn Duff]

Over the weekend I picked up a couple of sprues of the ships for Black seas, one of each from the starter set.
The models are quite nice and flat bottomed as you would expect.
Building seems simple enough although there are a couple of pieces that I am not sure about as there were no building guide in the magazine and nothing yet on Warlords website as yet.

The brig models measure up around about the same size as Ares frigates and so
I was looking to maybe use them as another class of frigate, then I saw the obvious reason why not, they come as two masted ships, so to be a fully rigged version a rear mast will need to be added, oh well.
However they could be used as merchantmen, yes still missing the rear mast for a rigged ship but as eye candy for a merchany convoy I think it would work.
I am almost certain evil bay will soon be selling individual sprues so maybe able to pick up some extras to make up a convoy of say 6 -8 vessels. Thats my theory anyway.

The frigate seems to be a much better option for us. The dimensions are very close to using as a Razee 74/64 to a large frigate or even as a different class of 74’s. The sprue comes with three different sterncastles and three different figureheads so a single sprue could be made up into one of nine different ships, this gives a great varition.
I will look further into this model to see what best way it could be utilised in our game as there does not seem to be anything on the horizon from Ares

[Bligh]

The Razee Frigate option looks very good Chris. I would even use a few of my spare masts from sunken Ares ships to replace the paper ones and bring her into line with the look of my fleet.

Rob.

[DeRuyter]

Over the weekend I picked up a couple of sprues of the ships for Black seas, one of each from the starter set.
The models are quite nice and flat bottomed as you would expect.
Building seems simple enough although there are a couple of pieces that I am not sure about as there were no building guide in the magazine and nothing yet on Warlords website as yet.

The brig models measure up around about the same size as Ares frigates and so
I was looking to maybe use them as another class of frigate, then I saw the obvious reason why not, they come as two masted ships, so to be a fully rigged version a rear mast will need to be added, oh well.
However they could be used as merchantmen, yes still missing the rear mast for a rigged ship but as eye candy for a merchany convoy I think it would work.
I am almost certain evil bay will soon be selling individual sprues so maybe able to pick up some extras to make up a convoy of say 6 -8 vessels. Thats my theory anyway.

The frigate seems to be a much better option for us. The dimensions are very close to using as a Razee 74/64 to a large frigate or even as a different class of 74’s. The sprue comes with three different sterncastles and three different figureheads so a single sprue could be made up into one of nine different ships, this gives a great varition.
I will look further into this model to see what best way it could be utilised in our game as there does not seem to be anything on the horizon from Ares

Actually merchant brigs were quite common. Dana's voyage in "Two Years Before the Mast" was in a brig and he went around the Horn to California. Also for the US coast and lakes schooners were also common merchants (most of the armed "lakers" were converted merchants). It would not be hard to convert a Black Seas brig to a schooner. Remove the yards on the main mast and add a gaff for the fore, etc.


Can you tell me if the brigs model has the separate stern like the frigate? I saw a painting video on YT and either the painter forgot to add it or the sprue in the magazine did not come with it.