I had sworn that I was done with rigging tiny ships, but being gifted a pair of 1/700th Warlord Games Black Seas Brigs by Andy (a covermount giveaway on one of the wargames mags a few years ago) unfortunately meant the glue, tweezers and swearing all made a quick reappearance as I conjured these two little ships up into a pair of Pirate brigs.
Other than the rather obvious "Pirates are COOL!" malarkey, flagging these with the Jolly Roger does open up trying a couple of the scenarios from the Black Seas rulebook - and with my French and British fleets now stretching up to 1st Raters, the 6 brigs I already have flagged as French and British are more than enough anyway.
Being covermounts these were missing the sails, which come pre-printed on thin card in an actual Warlord set.
Matching up the front and back on my printer proved rather more tricky than I hoped it would be, so in the end I just printed them on two sheets of paper and glued them together - which gave the sails more robustness anyway compared to a single sheet of paper.
The other thing "missing" would be ratlines, which Warlord provide as black-printed acetate sheets. These ones feature the more expensive and sophisticated laser etched metal ones which I ended up buying from Ali Express in China as a bit of an experiment in seeing how long delivery would take - which was not that long at all.
I think they do look good, but whether the extra faff is worth the squeeze I'm not sure - maybe next time I might buy some sails and ratlines from Warlord anyway for a few quid?
On what are gaming pieces after all, I doubt anyone will notice the difference, and the Warlord acetate sheets are far easier to cut out and stick on than the super-fine laser-etched ones on these little guys.
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