Decided to do some Man o' War rigging (lateen).

[androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Decided to do some Man o' War rigging (lateen).

First I tried using 0.2mm wire, melting it into the plastic, but this this brave approach brought a ship too close to the sun, and the aft starboard oar section took a damage marker, prompting some repairs.

In the end I drilled holes in to the (hollow) hull center, then used thread and glue dots. This also allowed me to tension the ropes by tugging them into greenstuff under the hull.

Paintjob needs a bit of touchup as I did it back in the day.

[androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I used Diode legs to make the mobile oars, squeezing them at the end to make paddles.

I think the paper sails might need to be crumpled to make them more realistic, like I tried on the top flag here (which is too big if I'm going for a 1:900 scale).

I wonder if the sails can be wet and pressed over a ridged thing to produce some vertical bulges between sheet seams, kind of like:
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The super smooth curved and gloss (printed) sails in official pics look a bit off.

[craigp@mastodon.social]

@androidarts Try just folding them for those creases first, paper's cheap.

[androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Craigp Folds seem to work nicely for seams. My thought was to create bulges, a bit like how wet water creates bumps. Not sure if even possible.

Edit: pressing wet paper onto a bed of round BBQ sticks, perhaps. or a sculpted 3D sail, resetting the paper fibres.

[eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social]

@androidarts This is so cool! They look phantastic!

My brother in law uses strings of drawn glue for rigging on his planes.

[androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place]

A sloppy test sail, folded and pressed onto some round rods for "ripples", while dabbed with murky paint water.

Ideally the bulges should follow the seams so each segment is bulging. I think in production, one could provide a plastic sail shape that wet paper is pressed onto and let dry, setting in a 3D shape.

This is a bit risky if one has spent time painting the sail beforehand. Better be waterproof paint, like acrylics.

[craigp@mastodon.social]

@androidarts How about folding it a few times, wetting it, and then pressing it against a tennis ball? While still folded, of course.

[androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Craigp The overall curve of the sail doesn't require any special operation other than bending it with your fingers.

These ships are just a few centimeters, so a tennis ball is too big anyways. Generally you roll the sail up against a pen to curve it, though this might destroy some of the 3D bulges.

I'm talking about creating individual bulges in the lattice of sheets. If you fold it into a zig-zag and let dry around a small rod, unfortunately half of the bulges from that will go in wrong dir.