Making Boats for Nautical-but-Nice Fast Risk

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What Is a Nautical-but-Nice Ship?

It's a little ship to use to hold armies for playing a naval version of Risk.

How to Make It?

It's made of bits of corrugated cardboard cut from the same single template.

The corrugated cardboard makes it thick, plus it's easy to glue with Elmer's Glue.

Cutting it out and Putting it Together

I take three identical cuts of corrugated cardboard ship hull shapes for each ship

The first piece is the "hull," which goes on the bottom, and doesn't get cut to smaller bits at all.

1. bottom, hull piece

The second piece, cut into two, are the "gunwales," which are glued along the edges of the "hull."

2. gunwales layer

The final piece, also cut into two parts, forms the fore and aft castles. These are glued on top in front and back, and cover the "gaps" at each end of the gunwales pieces.

3. fore and aft castles layer

...and you're done!

Dressing it Up?

I have not tried it, but it might be possible to cover these in papier-mâché, but I have not tried it. I would suggest using tissue or toilet paper. I'll post more if I try that.