It has been many years, but my model of The Wormwood finally had another use – as the centerpiece for our Cub Scout pirate-themed Crossover ceremony. This is a paper-craft model I built several years ago, in preparation for the Pathfinder campaign, Skull and Shackles. Unfortunately, the campaign died off after a bit into the second chapter, but for the first several game sessions it had a lot of activity (this was due to mechanics problems with ship to ship combat, the group was loving the campaign itself).
At the time, since most of the campaign was to take place on the ship, I wanted a long term and detailed model. Since this was before 3d printing was more mainstream, I settled on paper-craft, something I was familiar with from growing up in Europe (where I believe it was or is more popular). Regardless, it was a major project, and used up several ink cartridges and evenings. The base is foamcore, with printed cardstock pieces assembled, bent, and curved to the shape. The rigging is printed on transparencies. Although the glue and attachments haven’t fared too well, most of the assembly is holding up very well still. At most, all I had to do was re-assemble and blow off the dust, and she was back to her former glory. For our campaign, the model was nice because it comes apart to reveal the interior for the game. Although it is not a complete match for the true Pathfinder ship design, it more than worked for us with only minor modification to the storyline.
The original model was created by Denny Unger, with WorldWorks Games, using the Maiden of the High Seas model.
