The Elven Boat.

Here's the faering model modified as one of the Elven canoes from Lord of the Rings.
Pretty simple build.

"I'm going alone Sam!"
"Of course you are Mr. Frodo...and I'm coming with you.....!"


Here's the link:

Elf Boat

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

The Knarr: Viking Cargo Ship.

Got a lot of loot to move?  What you need is a seaworthy ship with lots of room for cargo:  the knarr.

These were the workhorse ships of the Vikings (when they weren't looting and pillaging).  These were the ships that sailed across the North Sea, the North Atlantic, up the Volga River....bringing trade goods, loot, slaves and settlers to and from everywhere the vikings went.

Here's a waterline model (a fairly big one: 16 inches long as printed, but you could always make it shorter) good for tons of loot, settlers, livestock, or anything else you want to cram in.

8 page pdf.

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhWU4tcVZ0TnJVVms/view?usp=sharing


Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64.

The Viking Drakkar Longship.

The Longship.  Also known as the dragon ship, or drakkar.

Here's a waterline model of a smallish warship...just the right size to transport a dozen or two of your best berserkers to some foreign port or monastery to sack....and burn...and pillage.

It's a four page pdf with options to make a short, or long, or very long ship.

With a few different dragon heads to fancy up your bowpost and instill fear into you hapless victims, and some oars for when the wind fails.
(the fig is from OneMonk from Cardboard Warriors)

Here's the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_Wdv8oYpJhS3hNRkt5d2N3OFk/view?usp=sharing


Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother64

The Giant Squid and the Jolly-Boat.

Beware the Kraken!
OK, he's a little smaller than Captain Jack's Kraken, but he's still a pretty big squid.
And he comes with a little Jolly-boat, or ship's boat, kinda like the one Captain Jack stole from Anna-Maria.
And then sank in that cool opening scene of Pirates of the Caribbean....?

Sorry, I couldn't find a colour pic anywhere.
The boat is brown wood and and plain canvas...pretty much boat-like.
And the squid is kinda speckly, squidly orange...pretty much squid-like.
Here's a bit of that texture:

These were posted on "Miniatures in  Paper" quite a few years back.
I think these were the first paper models I ever posted online.
I like the boat, and I like the squid's paint job, but he's a bit clunky as a model.
Try him out anyway...he's pretty simple to build...and he's free.
The boat will fit a few 28mm(ish) figs, and the squid is big enough to be a challenge to a few cutlass wielding pirates.

They're both together in one PDF file right here:   Giant Squid and Jolly-boat.

(1 page instructions, 4 page for the squid and 2 for the boat....7 pages total)


Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother


Edit: Ignatius from Cardboard Warriors recently made the model and has generously allowed me to post a pic here:

Thanks Ignatius.

The Birch Bark Canoe.

"Land of the silver birch, home of the eagle, where still the mighty moose wanders at will......"

Yup, the old Algonquin standby: the birch bark canoe.

So prepare to dip your paddle and practice your J-stroke....

(paddle not included)

Fits a couple of 28mm(ish) figures.

One page (actually...about half a page), instructions included.

Link....The Birch Bark Canoe.

Hope you like,

Grendel`s Mother

(Last Wild West post for a while. And yup, that`s Dryw's wrangler from Cardboard Warriors)

The Faering.

From Wikipedia:

"A faering is an open boat with two pairs of oars commonly found in most boat-building traditions of Western and Northern Scandinavia."

These boats date back to the Viking Era, and several examples were excavated with the Gokstad ship.

These may have been what Tolkien had in mind when describing the boats of Lake-Town.
I have a master plan to design a whole Lake-Town set, with docks and boats and buildings, but you'll have to wait for that one...maybe for a long time....

These boats were also the inspiration for the Elven canoes from Peter Jackson's LOTR.
Maybe I'll texture a version to match.  So many ideas...so little time.....

So, here's a small faering boat model, suitable for Viking, Dark Ages, or Fantasy gaming.

Or just to have floating around your docks.

Its a waterline model, scaled for 25-30 mm figures with room for a few figures to stand inside.

There's three different coloured versions, the third one is slightly longer.

Each one prints on a single 8.5x11 page at full scale.

With instructions.

Download the jpg's here...

Faering one (dark brown).

Faering two (medium brown).

Faering three (lighter brown, longer).

Hope you like,

Grendel's Mother