Painting Reaper’s MASSIVE Pirate Ship for D&D 

Thank you!!

thank you! i agree! (it's also all i know how to do)

thank you! !!

Most of mine are still grey, too hahah! Just not this one! Thanks for watching!!

These are all excellent tips - thank you!! Next time I am spray priming for sure haha. Thank you for watching!

haha well to be honest i did think about it, briefly, and my concern was that i would get it everywhere! on top of that, i also greatly, greatly, GREATLY underestimated the value of having a decent primer coat... major lesson learned. on my next of what can surely only be imagined as a fleet of giant miniature ships i will definitely be using spray on primers. or perhaps i'll just fill my bath tub with paint and give it a dip! anything to speed it up! thanks for watchin' through my weeks and weeks of follies !!

@@zaqstoner your video is great, subbed.

Spray outside or a garage. I use Chewy boxes to put my pieces in to spray on my balcony. It keeps paint off my furniture and after the fumes are more or less dissipated I bring the box inside.

I agree. He looked silly to me brushing this monster.

@@zaqstoner Great job my man. looks like a lot of fun to play on. My girlfriend and I are beginning to dip our toes into the world of terrain building, using lots of hirst arts molds. As far as my take on gun powder and magic. Unless everyone can shoot fire out of their hands, and you have people in plate armor that are really hard to hit, gun powder still makes lots of sense. In my game, hand held gun powder weapons ignore ten points of physical armor class at short range. Have fun with your wooden ships and iron men motif. Best and cheers,

this sounds so rad!! 13 playmobil ships is so many - you've got a whole fleet. have you painted them all? and the bespoke port sounds so cool. you must have a very big gaming table lol!

hahah where was everyone with the magnet tip when i started the project!! but thank you i’ll definitely be using magnets on my next giant ship project

everyone who comes across this video is a hot nerd

Thanks for watching! Yeah, I think the fit is a bit of a bummer but also my sticky paint makes separating the layers annoying. For now it's just a decoration on the top of my bookshelf! And yes, I think you're so right about the cannons!

@@zaqstoner I use Apple Barrel matte paints for woods, walls, stones, etc. 1. You cannot beat the price 16oz on Amazon is 5 bucks, the colors come out fantastic and unlike glossy or metallic paints, they don't stick. You can also use multiple waxes (I use to use turtle wax but now I've switched to all matte paints there is no need) to wax over the layers that connect and this eliminates the stickiness/adhesion. Just give it a good buff around all surfaces that would connect.

@gettingpolitical i am looking up that paint right now - that sounds glorious. thank you for the tips!!

Next time I paint something this big I am not using a paint brush a single time hahah just spraying everything

@@zaqstoner yeah its definitely saved me a load of time. I like gw chaos black but you can use pretty much anything from cheap hardware store primer to getting a whole airbrush set up.

i never prime the minis but this ship was like greasy or something... i dunno the plastic was bad all around!

@@zaqstoner I've still not started mine. I know what a project it's gonna be lol.

@@rc7771 well i wish you luck hahah! i hope it turns out amazing!

@@zaqstoner Thanks :) I've been thinking about it after watching you though, and I think I'm getting a can of the brown camoflauge primer just to get started.It'll go faster than painting lol

thank you!!

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Thank you!! I'm in LA but if I ever find myself in SE Michigan I will definitely check it out I love miniatures!

Thank you so much for watching!!!

ooo good tip! i’ll bust out the ole hair dryer on the next one. thank you!

Thank you!!

the sails are rolled up i guess! i considered making cloth sails but by the time i was done painting the ship i was over it! perhaps i will return to it one day and add sails. thanks for watching!

oh my god a comment from kaylee r??? this made my day

You're so right! Haha love that movie!!

worry not - it is getting plenty of natural weathering in the back of my closet

everybody loves a twist

hmm this is an excellent point... i suppose yes, gunpowder may be created! i'm not sure if magic would cause the gunpowder timeline to develop faster than it did in our own world, tho... and in a world where even the most novice of magic users can shoot fire i wonder what kind of design innovations would have to occur to keep the gunpowder on a ship from becoming an easily exploitable weak spot!

@@zaqstoner Well, interesting historical note: One of the reasons gunpowder weapons started overtaking bows in the middle ages was because they required much less skill on the part of the wielder to use. Proper longbows needed someone with a lot of strength and a great deal of practised experience to be of real use in warfare. Guns, despite not having reusable ammunition and being more expensive to build and maintain could be used by almost anyone. By comparison, if this is something like a D&D setting, then yes, its relatively easy to pick up magic, but like an archer, being a spellcaster who's worth anything would be on par with getting a masters degree in a science field - that is to say, a great deal of practice and hard work. Further more, spellcasters only have so much arcane energy they can draw on at a given time (usually represented in game by spell slots or something). A wizard needs to recover their spent energies, where as a cannon, as long as it has shot and powder, can just keep firing. Not to say they'd supplant spell casters all together, but I think they'd definitely have their place even in a world with magic. Lastly, ignitable gunpowder was just always an issue on ships back in the day. A lot of shipping lines had policies like leaving so much as candle unattended was an offence big enough to strip you of your wages for the journey. In battle you were always one lunatic with a Molotov cocktail away from disaster so to say. All that said, things like big ships were astronomically expensive to produce so it was generally a better idea to capture an enemy ship rather than blow it up. Which is also something cannons are better at. Well, at least better at disabling a ship than fireballs. It's much easier to repair cannonball holes than trying to salvage a burned out exploded wreck. Lol

@@TheGlassPhantom I think of it as an equalizer too...not everyone can shoot fire from their hands, but if I was going up against one that could, I wouldn't want to charge him with a sharp stick if I could come up with a way to level the playing field. A cannonball or a tube full of grapeshot would inconvenience a wizard just as much as it would inconvenience anyone else.

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You’re the second person to recommend that to me! Gonna have to give it a shot

@@zaqstoner , just know that I am not an expert in these things. If it doesn’t work, my bad.

@@kstevens4226 hahaha okay i won’t hold it against you

yes that seems to be the general consensus!! good thinking!

thank you! it was a kickstarter exclusive i’m pretty sure… but you can probably find it being resold on ebay or something. it’s called “sophie’s revenge” by reaper miniatures

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@@zaqstoner lol! ( I buttons me lips )

Yeah and it didn’t really hold its shape so it doesn’t fit together very nicely… For the money it cost I agree it should’ve gone together better and also been easier to paint!

Oooo good tip!! Didn't even think of that!

yes yes i should have sprayed i know this now!! hahaha. and yes general consensus is that this ship would still likely have cannons

it was a part of the reaper bones v kickstarter so i don’t know if you can buy it retail anywhere anymore. i gave it a quick google (reaper sophie’s revenge) and it looks like you can buy it from resellers…very expensive tho… reaper also just started their bones vi kickstarter so maybe they’ll have another ship with that if you want to check that out

@@zaqstoner I am definitely too poor to get one Dang.. but I am building two ships of my own from scratch but they aren't done and it's been at least two years since I started

@@CapnMadelyn two ships! well i’m sure they’ll be great when you finally do get around to finishing them!! i believe in you

@@zaqstoner Thx it's the flying Dutchman and my own idea the heavens light but it was gonna be the black pearl 2.0 but I changed my mind

I did not! Damn, that might've been the solution. It ended up fitting together nicely enough for me to be satisfied but using something like magnets definitely would've kept the nose stuck together better... next time!

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who had problems but I’m sorry you had to also experience it! And that’s a major bummer - Maybe you can get a lil crafty with some green stuff and mold it back into shape? Or you could remove the other one from the top section so at least it seems a little balanced and not too incomplete

@@zaqstoner yeah, I've glued it together again and put some green stuff around it to hopefully keep it together. So I'll see when it sets whether it will fit in again, and hopefully once it's painted up its not too noticeable, or worst case looks like some battle damage. I would have just left the top windows empty, but I already had them on at that point and didn't want to move any around once they were in, in case I snapped more of them.

@@nnewman1129 Well I hope it fits together nice n easy and I hope the painting goes well!!

There are a lot of things I should have done hahah!! But same - I put on the little rope ring pieces at the bottom of the masts upside down and decided to just leave them that way cuz it would've been such a pain to remove them. Hope your build progress is going well!!

I ALSO wish I would've saved myself the time! Lol! Next time I do a large project like this I totally will. Thanks for watching!

to make it harder to spot by dragons

@@zaqstoner Interesting. Maybe some deep sea greens and dark ocean blues for highlights would help with that?

@KlingonCaptain i was being a little facetious hahah - i went with brown because that’s how the collective consciousness thinks of a ship! i was not going for historic realism

get some rest!

I don’t know if the issue is alignment as much as it’s the warping of the plastic - the nose where the bottom and middle pieces touch just won’t stay together as hard as I try because the plastic seems to bend away from itself. That’s really the only places that’s overwhelmingly noticeable though - all the other imperfections are sorta hidden by the final paint job

@@zaqstoner I’m going to try some straightening but it appears that the sides near the middle were wider on the base than the sides of the ship. This might motivate me to look into it this weekend finally. Thanks.

@@constitutionallyfree6035 another commenter recommended getting some magnets and using those to help hold it all in place correctly. might be worth looking into! best of luck!! let me know how it goes!

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i agree - not a good assembly. could've also used some instructions lol!