Let me explain, Man O War was launched whilst I was on a hiatus from gaming in my early 20's although I was aware of its existence due to having a younger brother who had taken up gaming, and whilst it caught my eye I had neither the time or inclination to pick it up at that point. Fast forward a number of years to when I return to gaming and MOW is just about keeping its head above the waves soon to disappear for ever, but I was too distracted by the shiny new Epic/Blood Bowl and Warmaster stuff to notice its demise.
Since then MOW has always been the game that got away and one of the few Old School GW games I haven't actually played. Every now and again I would browse E-bay and consider buying in, but one thing or another stopped me. However the day has finally come (I blame the Covid Lockdown!!) and I now have the original box set plus both expansions, a bunch of original GW ships and a load of 3D prints.
The first to arrive in these days of haphazard postal services, was a small Khorne fleet, all 3D prints from E-Bay and for around £15.00 in total which considering most original GW ships go for anywhere between £15-£50 each is not bad.
They took a little cleaning up (but overall I'm more than happy with the prints despite them being filament rather than resin which would have been much nicer)and some time was taken making masts from cocktail sticks with some hole-punched plastic card for the fighting tops:
I then sprayed them all white and painted in the main colours before a quick light wash with earthshade. The original GW sail sets can be found online so I utilised these to finish off the fleet:
Bloodship:
Ironsharks:
Deathgalleys:
The Khorne contingent:
2nd to turn up was my original GW Tzeentch stuff, just the two "ships" to which I added another squadron of printed Deathgalleys with the masts set up differently to offer some slight variation.
Winged Terror(which is still a work in progress as I fell out with the Tzeentch stuff!)
Bane Tower(this is the reason i fell out wit the Tzeentch stuff having picked up a "bargain" on E-bay only to find out it was missing two of its towers swiftly replaced by some Brigade models small scale Irish towers:
Deathgalleys(I changed the mast set up for both variety and to fit the only Tzeentchian sail I could find online):
The Tzeentch fleet:
Definitely more MOW next, as I've waited over 20 years for this game and I am currently enthusiastically painting my way through a small Pirate contingent and an Empire fleet.
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