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Post by nukacola on Sept 21, 2015 6:42:40 GMT
hello all.
for a new game, I will need to build two full size(25mm scale) Galleons. one will be a fully useable sailing vessel with multiple decks, the other will be a wrecked vessel buried in sand, also with decks.
my plan is to use them for 'mini dungeons/adventures', as players will investigate the vessels as the game progresses.
has anyone build a 25mm scale galleon? most ships I've seen are not ships. boats won't work for this. I had an idea to build each deck DMScotty style with cardboard and paint, but am unsure where to start.
can anyone offer any advice? please post any pictures if you have them.
thanks.
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Post by curufin on Sept 21, 2015 10:51:46 GMT
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Sept 21, 2015 15:08:51 GMT
Howdy, might offer some inspiration... Wow. These are all fantastic. I wonder what became of the members. It has been more than a year since any of these crafters has been on. Too bad, they had mucho potential, Kev!
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Post by sotf on Sept 21, 2015 20:29:31 GMT
Quite honestly, there are some easy ways to make some rather good looking stuff.
The easiest is to use the cheap foam core, cut out the outlines of the floors, then use a craft stick of your choice as a measuring tool to mark plank lines after peeling a side and gluing the other side to cardboard for more support. Then mark it up for the wood grain. After that, take another piece of cardboard and measure along the edges of the floors and cover the sides for the walls and such. Additonally, add some height to the forward and rear raised areas with some cardboard turned vertical to add height and let you stack it like the 2.5 baseplate houses/crypts/other videos...
With the sections that would be railings, take a bit more care and use pieces of cardboard cut to the wall width but in small squares and divide them under the normal "wall" piece and it looks like a railing.
I would also try to avoid adding anything specific to any individual ship to each piece as that would mean that the ships can be re-used any time you need one without having to deal with the parts that were adventure specific.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Sept 21, 2015 23:46:03 GMT
i had books in 3.0, 3.5 d&d that had basic floor plans for those who wanted adventures in ships. i dont remember their names and i dont have the books anymore. but i found something usefull on the net by just typing d&d ship floor plans. heres a galleon designed for play. you have all 3 floors. www.spelljammer.org/ships/deckplans/Galleon.gifi kinda did a ship like this before, nothing that big though... each floors were one under the other on the table. so when they wanted to go down a level i simply took the mini and put it onto the next level below. think i'll make myself another one but full size this time around.
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Post by sotf on Sept 22, 2015 1:42:58 GMT
i had books in 3.0, 3.5 d&d that had basic floor plans for those who wanted adventures in ships. i dont remember their names and i dont have the books anymore. but i found something usefull on the net by just typing d&d ship floor plans. heres a galleon designed for play. you have all 3 floors. www.spelljammer.org/ships/deckplans/Galleon.gifi kinda did a ship like this before, nothing that big though... each floors were one under the other on the table. so when they wanted to go down a level i simply took the mini and put it onto the next level below. think i'll make myself another one but full size this time around. Stormwrack had several, Arms and Equipment did as well...there were a few in the various Eberron ones, though they tended to focus more on the airships. There is actually a rather good layout for a ship in the back of the 5th Edition DMG's map section. Also, the Freeport books and adventures tend to have piles of different ones.
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Post by adamantinedragon on Sept 22, 2015 2:56:06 GMT
I did a couple of ships for game sessions. The main lesson I learned on the first one is that miniatures with bases don't work well in to-scale ships. For my second attempt, which was a riverboat, I designed the boat around the miniatures we'd be using instead of going to scale. That worked very well. But it meant the boat layout was pretty oddly shaped compared to actual boats. Here's the final result: rpgobsessed.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/finished-riverboat/
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