Thursday, October 31, 2019

Black Seas Merchant conversion from 5th Rate

 by Matt Varnish

One of the scenarios in the Black Seas book needs a Merchant ship.. and here I am with a free sprue from Wargames Illustrated.. fresh off the heels of putting rigging and sails on my starter set ships, why not convert the freebie into a merchant.

Someone kindly made a printable version of the sails that are double sided, and I used some cut up balsa rod to make some crates..


And now painted up



I removed some guns, though I don't like how this turned out, will fix this at some point and spread them out.




With spare boats and wood rod I made up some floating wreckage.. to count as the different Damaged States.



Just need to figure out merchant flags and pennants and good to go!


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