Pirate Sloop

[Ido]

I've created a pirate sloop for my Pirates diorama. It was a very fun and challenging project. here are some pictures of it: Album

Enjoy!

[Sebeus I]

That is a lovely little sloop, I like the comparison shot with he Black Pearl.

[Ido]

1 hour ago, Sebeus I said:

That is a lovely little sloop, I like the comparison shot with he Black Pearl.

Thanks a lot! I love your ships BTW

[GeoBrick]

Beautiful creation. The entrance to the cabin, the stern wall and the lines of the bow must be my favourite features here.

[Franco Clarke]

Perfect little pirate ship there, scales much better with the port building than the larger official sets would. I like the texture you've achieved with the sails, how'd you achieve that? 

[Ido]

11 hours ago, GeoBrick said:

Beautiful creation. The entrance to the cabin, the stern wall and the lines of the bow must be my favourite features here.

Thanks! much appreciated

45 minutes ago, Franco Clarke said:

Perfect little pirate ship there, scales much better with the port building than the larger official sets would. I like the texture you've achieved with the sails, how'd you achieve that? 

Thanks a lot!!  Indeed, it scales much better, I used to have official sets there but they dwarfed the rest of the diorama and blocked it from view.

As for the sails, I cut them from a canvas used for painting (Not the ideal material to be honest, because it can be ruined easily by water. Apparently there's a canvas fabric which is more fitting). I used simple scissors.

I drew the vertical lines with a pencil, then painted them with a simple light brown solid oil pastel color. I didn't press hard against the canvas, I wanted the color to be more off white-ish than brown.  

The little holes for the rigging were done with a needle and then I enlarged them using a toothpick.

LMK if you have any more questions :)

[Franco Clarke]

Thank you for the summary, that sounds pretty straight forward. The brown gives it a nice weathered feel, similar to the sails in the flagship. 

[Papaladin]

Beautiful sloop !

I love seeing these "smaller" builds, packed with a lot of details and cool techniques (for the stern back wall attachment for example!) . Gives me a lot of ideas to improve my small ship, that is still based on the building techniques from 25 years ago :D 

Thanks for all the pictures and the info for the sails aswell !

[Ido]

On 1/6/2026 at 1:15 PM, Papaladin said:

Beautiful sloop !

I love seeing these "smaller" builds, packed with a lot of details and cool techniques (for the stern back wall attachment for example!) . Gives me a lot of ideas to improve my small ship, that is still based on the building techniques from 25 years ago :D 

Thanks for all the pictures and the info for the sails aswell !

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

[Velika314]

You should post this to BDP and see if it wins! I would vote for it. We need more small sets on there.