Adam Saunders

Hi Nigel,

If you rig the basic plastic ships per the rule book and glue on the sails and ratlings well they are very robust. I’ve dropped a plastic brig off the table onto a wood floor and it was completely unscathed.

The larger metal/resin ships are a bit more delicate as white metal is always free to bend. I’ve heard some people make their own…[Read more]

It dawned on me this past weekend that I wrote this post using “Lucky Jack” instead of “John Lucky.” I must have had Pirates of the Carribean floating in my subconcious ;).

So for Black Seas, they model at approximately 1/700th scale (most of the boxes have this in the top right corner).
When I do models based on actual places, I used Google Earth’s measuring tool as my guide. When measuring from the gate house to the opposite point on the star I get approximately 4584″. Divide that by 700 and I get 6.55″ as my…[Read more]

I really enjoyed your videos as well. Your rocky structures came out fantastic!

I’ve looked at a few options for terrain;
1) The Black Seas Scenary Pack – I really liked all the pieces in this set. I ended up buying a second to chop the base of the light house and Martello tower to allow better integration with my other terrain. I’m also really…[Read more]

Thanks Craig, do the attachments on the edited work better?

-Adam

I imagine you have your answer by now but for anyone else I’d recommend a hand drill (available at any hobby store or Amazon) using at least a 1.2mm or 1.5mm drill bit and the box art to approximate locations.

Just to close the loop on this incase anyone else comes here to look (as I just did) there is a PDF on the black-seas.com website with a points cost of 260 for each ship.