Hobby | Black Seas La Princesa

Uh what a whirlwind of a time it's been for me, I won't get into details, but I will say that it's been very busy here. I've finally gotten around to finishing La Princesa, a model I started way back in August after I wrapped up the Lake Erie project. Hopefully, the next thing I do won't take anywhere near as long. But back to the subject at hand. 

Hobby | Black Seas Santa Ana

Now that I've run through all of the ship sizes in the game, it was time to go big. This is the generic Spanish 1st Rate, cast in resin with metal masts. I decided that I would paint her as the ship Santa Ana, as the generic model fits closely with her look. Warlord does provide a unique Santa Ana model, but I don't feel like hunting that one down when this will do. 

Paint Recipe | Black Seas Spanish Navy

I’m moving through all of the major nations present in Black Seas, and now it’s the turn of the Spanish. I have painted a Spanish ship before, a large merchant vessel, but it’s not the “official” scheme used by Warlord Games to denote our Iberian friends. I use official loosely, as there weren’t really standardized paint schemes in this timeframe, more like pick a color out of this pot, and it was almost always a variation of yellow it seems. Regardless, here’s the red version.

Hobby | Black Seas Merchant Vessel

As I mentioned in the last post, I've begun dabbling with the world of historical miniatures. And by dabble I mean buy way too many ships, but that is a problem for future me. Current me is proud of the first ship out of the shipyard, a large Merchant Vessel from Warlord Games Black Seas.