Dark age and Medieval warship

[fsn]

Gentlemen ...

I am conceiving a desire to visit the Battle of Sluys (read the Longbowman vs Crossbowman Osprey book) but can not find any cogs (10mm  or smaller).

Outpostwargames services do some cogs in 1:1200. Are they any good?   

Does anyone know of any other suppliers?

Now, since I know me, I'll probably be looking for some Dark Age (Early Medieval, Just After the Romans but before the Normans, Sub-Saxon Hegemony, whatever you want to call it) ships too.

I know naval warfare at the time consisted of tying ships together and fighting a land battle ... so 10mm scale would be fine.

All help gratefully appreciated.   



If I don't get any, I'll probably be on the ACW next week, but I'll probably come back to cogs ... later

[Leman]

the little cogs are quite nice as you can even make out the fore and aft castle crenellations.

[d_Guy]

NavWar also has them (but no pics and may be what Outpost sells)

http://www.navwar.co.uk/nav/default.asp?MMID=78

( i'm perpetually looking for 16th - 17th c ~"n" scale models - most are too expensive!)

[FierceKitty]

Heroics and Ros used to make a 6mm scale cog.

[fsn]

Thank FK. The cog seems to have gone but they seem to have a range of Viking ships. 

[Orcs]

Thank FK. The cog seems to have gone but they seem to have a range of Viking ships.  :-

Not Sure Where your looking, they are in the "Renaissance section". Perhaps I could get you some spectacles from Amazon? 

I used to have the galleys and they were quite nice. Antiquated order system, but the old guy (80) is a very nice bloke.



Northern European Cog
Code - RS08
£1.50

Mediterranean Cog
Code - RS09
£1.50




more info


Qty   

[Roy]

From this blog:

http://dtbsam.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Medieval%20Naval



"Also recently finished, three 1/1200 cogs from Outpost Wargame Services. These were painted in the black hull / red sails scheme of Jeanne de Clisson,a  noted French woman pirate who, following the execution of her husband by King Philip, terrorised French shipping in the English Channel for many years."

Some more



Navwar:









As I say, not my blog so I don't know any of the details. But I remembered seeing them, so LINKed to them here.

[Ithoriel]

Not Sure Where your looking, they are in the "Renaissance section". Perhaps I could get you some spectacles from Amazon?  

I used to have the galleys and they were quite nice. Antiquated order system, but the old guy (80) is a very nice bloke.

I believe the Viking ships fsn is talking about, in response to FKs post, are the Ros & Heroics ones - several different ships plus various 6mm crew.

I'll second the comment about Tony at Navwar (though I'm not sure he's quite that old?) - a scholar and a gent ... and very prompt at despatching my orders.

[fsn]

Thank's all.

Those Outpost chappies are tempting me.

[fsn]

*Thanks all*

Apologies.

[fsn]

Is it wrong to want to crew some cogs with oversize crew so it looks contemporary? 

[d_Guy]

Absolutely not wrong  - I think it is valiant.
I for one,  however, would not want to wear full plate armor on a ship were the gunwale hits me right above the knee, but that's me, Mr Cautious.

[Ace of Spades]

Buy your plate armour one size bigger and wear some inflated pigs blatters underneath I'd say...
It's actually more the corrosive effect of salt water on polished bare metal that would worry me. Especially if you would be wearing French or Italian armour.

Cheers,
Rob

[Westmarcher]

Is it wrong to want to crew some cogs with oversize crew so it looks contemporary? 

Surprised that Mike hasn't mentioned "Wendy" boats yet. 

[Ithoriel]

Surprised that Mike hasn't mentioned "Wendy" boats yet. 

Not so much Wendy Boats as confirmation of fsn's odd view on the world

After the obliquey unjustly heaped on his head recently it seemed churlish to pick on this!