1/1200 Naval

[FierceKitty]

Warning - DON'T put pennants and jacks streaming out behind the ships. It's an easy mistake to make, but these vessels like the wind more or less behind them; they aren't motor-boats.

[pierre the shy]

WARNING WARNING - rigging 1/1200th scale ships will lead to LOTS and LOTS of really foul language.

IanS 

Do you use etched brass ratlines on your ships Ian or does installing them have its own unique language  :-

I can remember making a 1:600 Airfix kit of the Victory many years ago with moulded plastic ratlines that took a fair bit of doing shall we say.   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Cotton for a very stripped down running rigging, and net curtain for the ratlines.

IanS

[Westmarcher]

Nice looking ships, Aksu. I've never played 18th/19th century age of sail games using actual models, using simple top down view cardboard cut outs instead. On the subject of rigging and peanuts etc.(believe it or not, I did type 'pennants'), from a practical viewpoint, what do naval wargamers do to denote a vessel losing a mast? Using our cardboard hulls, it was easy enough to cross off a mast with a felt-tip pen but with a model there seems to be the dilemma of fully rigging it to enhance its appearance or not rigging it to allow the removal of masts. What do the larger scale naval wargamers (i.e., not 1/3000) do?

[Roy]

Use a counter to say its suffered a dismasting if there's a need for on-table information. Or, just cross off a mast's structure points on a reference sheet if that's how the rules work. That's how I do it. I might have a model of a ship sinking, but none for a hull without masts due to battle or sailing damage.

[Aksu]

from a practical viewpoint, what do naval wargamers do to denote a vessel losing a mast? Using our cardboard hulls, it was easy enough to cross off a mast with a felt-tip pen but with a model there seems to be the dilemma of fully rigging it to enhance its appearance or not rigging it to allow the removal of masts. What do the larger scale naval wargamers (i.e., not 1/3000) do?

We usually put a matchstick next to the ship on the side the mast fell. I don't remove any masts from the model. Also I am still to make wreck dioramas for sinking ships... another item on my endless to do list.
I really need to deliver on my promise to put up pics of my rough and ready ships with minimal rigging, I haven't even done any shrouds on them, some of my mates have. One of these days
Aksu

[Aksu]

Here's a pic of ships in transit - magnets on bases and biscuit tin to store them. Hence the mirror image in the background.

[fred.]

They look good!

[paulr]

 
Nice ships, with pennants flying the right way
I particularly like the Santísima Trinidad

[Westmarcher]

Trific! 
Pity there's no photos on the Navwar website - grateful for your photos.
Also, like the idea of a matchstick!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Wow, very cool!

[Roy]

Nice