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Thursday, August 28, 2014

1/1200 Langton Merchant Ships Completed

 The four merchants I've been working on are now complete and ready to see some action on the table top.  Of course, action for a merchant ship in a naval game is essentially being hunted down but that how the dice roll.

 I also made up a marker for a sunken ship.  Ships in this time period took a long time to sink and often lingered at the surface posing a risk to other ships in the battle.

I did break down and order a few East Indiamen ships from GHQ - no collection from this period could be considered complete with a few of those beasts.  East Indiamen are armed merchants and were favored by pirates - hmmm pirates???...

I highly recommend 1/1200 scale Age of Sail ship models as a hobby.  If you choose to give it a go, I do recommend you pick up a copy of Rod Langton's assembly guide - it really is a hobby gem and I constantly refer back to it when modeling.

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5 comments:

  1. Paul O'GAugust 28, 2014 at 5:24 PM

    Huzzah! Top job Miles

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  2. DeanMAugust 28, 2014 at 8:15 PM

    Nice work on those ships, Miles. Luckily the Ancients line doesn't have many parts - although the cover art of that book sure is nice looking. Best, Dean

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  3. IanAugust 29, 2014 at 6:37 AM

    You have to feel sorry for these guys, good work though s they will be good looking targets

    Ian

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  4. Stefan (aka. Monty)September 1, 2014 at 8:58 AM

    Well done, Miles !
    Those ladies of the sea are real beauties.

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  5. A Miniatures Hobby RoomOctober 2, 2014 at 7:25 AM

    Nice merchant fleet Miles. Are these all Langtons? Which models?
    What rules are you playing?

    Vol

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