12-26-2014, 02:33 PM
5 DAYS...
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@ Elderac - I do plan to take lots of pictures of the map in play. I am eager to see what it looks like with units all over it.
@ pendrake - Thanks for the ideas.
A raft sounds like a really good idea. I was wanting another small boat to put in one of the small sea caves, but I did not want something just like the rowboat. I will keep your other ideas in mind as I go along.
@ kerinst - I appreciate your generous offer, but if this does not end up staying in the Dallas area, I can clear off my bottom map storage shelf to make room. The wire shelves on my wall were laid out to accommodate my Battletech hex maps which are also 2 feet on one side, so everything is already set.
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Some of the priatey details I want to make if I can squeeze in the time are some flagpoles for each of the four pirate factions. To get started on those, I copied the faction images from the Reapercon website and pulled the faction symbols from each image.
![[Image: 15999878891_003c3eba2a_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8606/15999878891_003c3eba2a_o.jpg)
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Using these I printed out some flags, giving each faction their own background color to change things up a bit.
For my first flagpole, I wanted to make something that looked like the tip of a snapped off mast complete with a crow's nest that was stuck into the ground and used as a flagpole.
The underwater adventure kit that contained my kraken also included a scuba diver and a powered motor for pulling him through the water.
The cowling around the propeller looked just like a crow's nest to me.
![[Image: 15815846419_44f4e3e1f5_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8607/15815846419_44f4e3e1f5_o.jpg)
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A bit of cutting and trimming got the cowling free. I then filled most of it with a shaped block of balsa wood hot glued in place with a hole drilled through it to hold the mast securely to the nest.
![[Image: 15814462038_4c364b6d17_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7540/15814462038_4c364b6d17_o.jpg)
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A snapped off dowel made a nice mast tip. I used a large fender washer for the base and weighted everything down with two layers of crushed lead pellets held in place with more hot glue.
![[Image: 15976069186_6920545fe6_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8563/15976069186_6920545fe6_o.jpg)
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I then coated the base and pellets with more hot glue and covered everything in clay cat litter.
![[Image: 15976069176_661a65df10_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7532/15976069176_661a65df10_o.jpg)
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To give the paper flags some strength and better give them the ability to hold flapping shapes, I cut them out and glued them to both sides of some heavy craft aluminium foil. For the two non-symmetric emblems, I was careful to print out mirror images for the back sides of the flags.
![[Image: 15999878871_7a91d6fcc2_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15999878871_7a91d6fcc2_o.jpg)
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A base coat of some brown primer, some dry brushing, and some dyed floral wire rope, and everything was complete.
![[Image: 15816101927_dabb1056bf_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7471/15816101927_dabb1056bf_o.jpg)
![[Image: 15814587820_50f575ef35_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8602/15814587820_50f575ef35_o.jpg)
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Three more flags to go. Thumbs Up
(Now that I have made one, I have to do the other three of the other factions will get jealous.)
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@ Elderac - I do plan to take lots of pictures of the map in play. I am eager to see what it looks like with units all over it.

@ pendrake - Thanks for the ideas.

@ kerinst - I appreciate your generous offer, but if this does not end up staying in the Dallas area, I can clear off my bottom map storage shelf to make room. The wire shelves on my wall were laid out to accommodate my Battletech hex maps which are also 2 feet on one side, so everything is already set.

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Some of the priatey details I want to make if I can squeeze in the time are some flagpoles for each of the four pirate factions. To get started on those, I copied the faction images from the Reapercon website and pulled the faction symbols from each image.
![[Image: 15999878891_003c3eba2a_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8606/15999878891_003c3eba2a_o.jpg)
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Using these I printed out some flags, giving each faction their own background color to change things up a bit.
For my first flagpole, I wanted to make something that looked like the tip of a snapped off mast complete with a crow's nest that was stuck into the ground and used as a flagpole.
The underwater adventure kit that contained my kraken also included a scuba diver and a powered motor for pulling him through the water.
The cowling around the propeller looked just like a crow's nest to me.

![[Image: 15815846419_44f4e3e1f5_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8607/15815846419_44f4e3e1f5_o.jpg)
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A bit of cutting and trimming got the cowling free. I then filled most of it with a shaped block of balsa wood hot glued in place with a hole drilled through it to hold the mast securely to the nest.
![[Image: 15814462038_4c364b6d17_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7540/15814462038_4c364b6d17_o.jpg)
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A snapped off dowel made a nice mast tip. I used a large fender washer for the base and weighted everything down with two layers of crushed lead pellets held in place with more hot glue.
![[Image: 15976069186_6920545fe6_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8563/15976069186_6920545fe6_o.jpg)
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I then coated the base and pellets with more hot glue and covered everything in clay cat litter.
![[Image: 15976069176_661a65df10_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7532/15976069176_661a65df10_o.jpg)
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To give the paper flags some strength and better give them the ability to hold flapping shapes, I cut them out and glued them to both sides of some heavy craft aluminium foil. For the two non-symmetric emblems, I was careful to print out mirror images for the back sides of the flags.
![[Image: 15999878871_7a91d6fcc2_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15999878871_7a91d6fcc2_o.jpg)
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A base coat of some brown primer, some dry brushing, and some dyed floral wire rope, and everything was complete.
![[Image: 15816101927_dabb1056bf_o.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7471/15816101927_dabb1056bf_o.jpg)
![[Image: 15814587820_50f575ef35_o.jpg]](https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8602/15814587820_50f575ef35_o.jpg)
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Three more flags to go. Thumbs Up
(Now that I have made one, I have to do the other three of the other factions will get jealous.)