3D printed islands and Pirates game

I'm finally getting consistently acceptable prints. Printed 4 islands I found on Thinggivers for free and painted them up. Very happy with end products. Also used them in a club game of Pirates by Wizkidz Games.

Here are some shots from the game. Despite the games name, our's featured 2 squadrons of English and French ships.

Here are some of the original islands that came with the game. They still work fine but its nice to have something a bit nicer to look at.

First game back in the US of A

So I have not posted in a long while which was due to a brake from painting and playing fewer games. I recently moved back to the United States of America from  England as my tour at RAF Lakenheath was over. Now we are stationed in the bread basket of America, Missouri, at Whiteman AFB and still waiting for all our stuff to arrive. Fortunately their is a good game store just 10 min down the road though historical games dont seem to be big there but I can fix that.
The next few months are going to be busy as I get trained up at my new tower and my son is born in early Oct. This will result in fewer game time but I all ready have plans to build a moulder terrain table and start a Warhamer 40k army so I wont be quiting the hobby any time soon.

Speaking of gaming, while my very pregnant wife and I wait for all our belongings to arrive I happened to grab a tin of Pirates that had been at my parents house from nearly 10 years ago and decided to teach the wife how to play.
If you are not familiar with the game, made by WizKids, I recommend taking a look here and giving it a read.
Basically you would buy tin foil packs of stirean cards that would have punch out pieces to construct ships from the age of piracy. It was a constructible, collectible, tabletop game with very simple rules that was fun and easy to play.
Anyway we played two games in which I won the first and she won the second. She really seemed to enjoy it and wants to play again when my main collection arrives. She also feels like it will be a really good game to get my son into the hobby in a few years.
Fallowing are a couple of pictures from our games.

I hope to have a post next week with my new hobby room setup with posts to fallow of games and projects.

Pirates! Arrrrrrg

Anyone remember the constructible card game Pirates by Wizkid that came out in 2004? They came in foil packs like any other collectible card game except that some of the cards punched out and could be assembled to create sailing ships. I happened to have a tackle box in my closet back home with a large British fleet and a large Spanish fleet so I had my folks ship it over to me. Hoping I can revitalize the game a bit as the rules are very simple and offer fast and fun play.