I have been building 1/300 scale ships for a number of years, after having been originally inspired by Ted Roy's ships on his now defunct sites. I think I salivated over the Langton cutter for two years before I decided to try my hand.
All ships in these pictures are Rod Langton kits if indicated, or are otherwise scratchbuilt hulls with masts and sails kitbashed from commercial plastic kits.
 | English cutter. This is a Rod Langton Model |
 | 16 gun Dutch brig. You can see another view here, and a picture of the hull being built here |
 | The American privateer Fly |
 | English Archer class gunbrig, 10 guns |
 | A 7-gun Dutch schooner gunboat |
 | The French gunbrig Creche Fue. This was an early invasion craft... not really seaworth |
 | French Pram. This is another invasion craft. It really amounts to a 117' landing barge rigged as a corvette. It carries 12 x 24pdrs |
 | The notorious American privateer Prince de Neufchatel |
 | The French corvette Babet. You can see a close-up of the hull under construction here and here. |
 | A schooner made from a 1/96th scale ship's boat |
 | A xebec that started as a Lindberg Barbary Pirate kit, redone with scratchbuilt masts and sails. More views here and here |
 | The American Lake Ontario brig Oneida |
 | Langton Cruizier class brig. I lost the bowsprit, so had to substitute my own. |
 | Langton French brig La Curieuse. Click here to see this model being built |
 | French 40 gun frigate |
 | Scratchbuilt lugger |
 | 32 gun frigate. This is converted from a Lindberg USS Constellation kit. The decks and stern are scratchbuilt. This is probably not worth the effort, but I just wanted to see how it would come out. |
 | Langton sloop USS Wasp, showing some shelf-wear. |
 | USS Java, a 44 gun frigate completed during the war of 1812, but never tested in combat. |
 | A Pyro/Heller/Life-like/Lindberg Brig-of-War kit, with additional sails. This ship is roughly 1/300, but makes for a rather tubby ship. |
