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Brig hull textures

Here a first look at the upcoming brig texturing. I have got the hull - outside and inside - textured and go my build this far.

My work pipeline allows for pretty accurate parts except for on...

Sneak peek at the brig textures

Still feeling woozy with my cold but there is one good thing. My voice has dropped two octaves and became sexy :-) I sound like Michael Clark Duncan!

With all the prep work I have done on the...

Brig and sick

Just a quick update to let you guys know that I have started working on the Brig textures but I haven't been feeling well the last days, so everything is slow.

I managed to work in all the ge...

恭喜发财 Happy Chinese New Year 2019

Here's my little surprise gift for the year of the pig!

I have made a Chinese treasure chest in my 'Basic Bits' series. Use these boxes to enhance your tabletop scenery or maybe just as a goo...

Color variations

While I am still waiting for Patreon to finish the end-of-month processing (it's taking quite long this month!) I want to show the different color modifiers I have added for the courtyard house. 2019-02-04 10:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Courtyard Fold-Flat

I have just finished the second build with the fold-flat version of the courtyard house! I am never sure how well I can convert a model, but I think this one went really well. Esp for the interior ...

Alternative front build

As I am working full speed to get the release done in time, here are some pics showing the new final build I made for the regular instructions (fold flat still to be done) showing the wooden framew...

Fleshing out the Chinese interior

For the interior main walls I am going to just reuse the brick walls, but for the spacing walls I really wanted to have wood as the main component. 

This wood texture will also be availa...

Chinese Courtyard Modules

Today I want to show the modules I am going to make over time for the courtyard houses.

There are three buildings categories and then gates and walkways. For each of them there will be two va...

Making Chinese roof tiles

When I went to texture the roof, I first tried reusing the old ones I created for the Samurai Castle sets. But for the Chinese houses I wanted a more lighter tone and more variations in the tiles. ...

Finetuning geometry and textures

I had started working on the roof, when my girl friend made a remark about the shape of the roof, specifically how I designed the slanting and curving as compared to my research pictures. After a s...

Expanding the Brig to 30mm scale

This weekend I worked a little on adapting the 15mm parts to 30mm scale. I only got to make the core and outside hull parts but you can now see the scale of the brig in comparison to minis :-)

Court yard house texturing I

Here's an update on the WIP of the Chinese court yard houses. As you can see I have finished a bulk of the wall texturing. 

For now I have focused on the brick "skin". It's the simplest ...

Welcome to the new Patrons!

Thank you all so much for your support. This means a lot to me. Both emotionally and also financially! 

I have had a couple of chats that made me realize I should explain "my way" of doi...

Basic Bits: Wooden Crate A

Every month I am going to release a small paper model for free download. 

I am calling this series "Basic Bits" covering stuff like crates, barrels, carts and other bits that will help p...

Brig figurehead section

So this one was a little bit tricky for me, but I think I have got it now. This will be the geometry onto which the actual figurehead will be attached.

I will go for two versions. The one abo...

New in 2019

End of last year I announced I will add some freebies this year, so this is what it's about :-)

Every now and then, when I had a little time, I started working on smaller models. Usually it w...

Paper engineering for fold flat

This is an idea I had for another set which I thought I could put into action in the "hidden" base section of the court yard buildings. That way I wouldn't need use the clamping bits (shown below) ...

Court yard house white build

Today only a brief update on my progress. Here's a look at white test build of the basic house. The biggest design choice was the top roof edge. I was tinkering with the rounded version but went wi...

Honing in on the basic court yard house

I have been studying (and finding more) references for the court yard houses and am working on locking down the geometry and the basic texture patterns.

This sketch above is a more decorative...

Getting a grip on the new geometry

Between working on the Chinese Court Yard buildings I was able to advance the Brig a little. So here's a look at my first test build of the brig. It's a rough build at half scale (15mm) with the ma...

Taking off into 2019

I have returned from the New Year celebrations with the folks - lots of good food and drink and a mist covered firework at midnight - and started fleshing out the modules for the Chinese Courtyard ...

Sailing into 2019!

I am very excited about the new year. I have lots of things I want to build. Most of them will be from the usual Asian and Pirate theme again, but I also have more "cultures" to mix in, if we have ...

This was 2018!

After a couple of quiet, peaceful and restful christmas holidays I am in the right mood to take stock of this year.

Today I want to take the time and look back at what we created this year. I...

Added more flags

For the gunboat I have create a flags file with some Jolly Roger pirate flags. For the Sloop I wanted to add more flags, this time going for different navy flags. I have added British, French, Spanish...

New photo setup

Last weekend I found some new background plates for taking photos. The old tools are becoming too small to take good photos of the large ships! :-)

So above you see the results of the new photo rig ...

Weekend Sloop teaser :-)

Here's a little pic to show the almost finished Sloop. Only the top mast flag is missing. As I have done pirate flags the last time with the gun boat I want to add some "country" flags now. I think I ...

Splitting the mast

The mast extensions can look intimidating to a beginner, but I think I have found an easy solution!

I have made two versions, depending on how comfortable you feel cutting holes into the separating ...

Taking the Sloop apart ...

Today I want to quickly show you how the Sloop can be disassembled for better storage and/or transport. Above you see the main components, esp the masts taken apart. That is just one way. For my next ...

Cannon builder helper ...

When I was building my first batch of cannons I was aligning the barrel any way I wanted. Some I made horizontal and some I had pointing up a little. Now when I had the sloop hull done I realized a li...