Visit To the Shipyard

This is going to take a teeny bit more time and effort than I would have thought, if I had taken time to consider the matter, but they are coming along nicely. 

"Is that your whole work team??" 

One of the interesting and useful qualities of the original Prince Valiant series is that it mixes a wide variety of settings and time, mixing late Romans and Huns with Vikings, Arabs, North American "Indians" etc.,  up to 12thC or even 13thC knights.  When I went looking for references of the sort of ships that might fit in, I initially thought of Viking long ships, but the variety of ship styles in the strips gave me wide options, but, various cogs not only appeared most often in the strips but it was the easiest option for modifying my toy pirate ships into ships for Prince Michael and his foes to sail across the tabletop. 

Modern replicas.
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28ship%29

Without having thought about it, I was kinda expecting all sorts of 'flash' paint jobs, like the Greek triremes with the big eyes etc but nope, most of the replicas are just plain wood like an everyday working ship with only a few having some  spiffy trim. Which is good for me, much simpler for ships that will probably have to serve from the Dark Ages to the 16thC to the mid 19th Century on Lake Champlain or the Great Lakes or some fictional setting. After all, they will be toy ships for toy soldiers, not historical models.