Manda's (Amachan) Black Seas

What will I be doing?

I will be making 2 fleets for Black Seas, 1 English and 1 Dutch.

The English fleet will be completely official Warlord Games fleet and I will start that as soon as I can get the Master & Commander starter set.

The Dutch fleet will be 3D printed models from Henry Turner, link below. These ships are 17th century ships rather than the 18th century the game is set in. As for rules I will just be using basic rules for ships and such, so no national special rules, characters or ships. Because, Warlord Games does not have any rules for the Dutch in Black Seas.

All ships should be at 1/700th scale as the the Warlord Games’ ships come like that. Henry Turner’s ships come in either 1/700 or 1/600. After doing a little bit of maths I’ll print the 1/600 at 85% to get them to 1/700th scale.

Why not Oak & Iron?

While Oak & Iron is set in the period I am more interested in and does have rules for the Dutch, in order to play it I need their special bases, cards and everything to play. This means I will have to buy every set for every ship I am going to 3D print. I don’t like the look of their ship models and this is going to be quite expensive. While Black Seas also uses cards, they aren’t mandatory because as far as I understand all the rules for the ships are in the rulebook.

Will I do the rigging?

I intend to, yes. It will be a bit more of a challenge on the 3D printed ones I think, but I’ll definitely give it a go.

Sails?

One thing I haven’t really made up my mind on how I will do them. Currently I’m thinking of printing them on paper or just use paper and weather it up. I haven’t decided yet, if anyone has any ideas for sails 1/700th scale, let me know.

Bases?

For my ships I will be using bases, I have not yet decided on the dimensions, but length wise they will be adjusted to match the ship and 3D printed. The bases will most likely just be a rectangle printed without texture. I will then add texture and paint them after.

I am using bases simply because it makes the models more stable on the tabletop, especially the resin/metal Warlord ones.