I am sailing... (a.k.a. "Welp, that was unexpected!")

Well, as I said in an earlier post, I was working on a unit of Pavesiers for my Fantasy/Dungeoneering games. But last week Johan gave me the last missing component for my Man O'War Dwarf fleet. My original intention was to simply strip the paint off, and store it with my Man O'War stash until I could get around to it one day.
The Muse, apparently refreshed from her prolonged absence, thought otherwise...
Before I knew it, I had cleaned and assembled all the Dreadfleet terrain (yeah, I fell for the Man O'War nostalgia buy :/ ) , and was well underway assembling my Dwarf fleet:

The Dreadfleet Dwarf ship snuck into the assembly line as well. Might as well paint all the Dwarves in one go. And he may just be useful as a sorf of superheavy battleship? Missing from this picture is the second squadron of Monitors, and the other two Ironclads. I also have a second set of 3 Nautilii, but these can wait a bit, I fear 6 Nautilii may be a bit overkill...

Speaking of Nautilii, I want to do a bit more for the submerged option than just plonking down a "submerged" counter next to the model. I'd like to build proper submerged models and have been thinking/experimenting on how to best go about it:

From left to right:
    -A. My original idea of making a Natilus profile as a "submerged" marker.
    -B. A based, non-submerged Nautilus.
    -C. My second idea, of making an empty base, to serve as the "submerged" marker.
    -D. A still-unbased Nautilus, for comparison.
My intention is for both option A and C to have the chimney and banner still sticking out of the water. On option A I tried one of the ideas for doing water on the bases:

While I like the effect, I fear that doing all my fleets this way will simply take too much time/greenstuff. I will paint this one up, and try another one with acrylic gel, to see which I like best.

After that, insanity struck...

You see, somewhere in the past I had acquired a Heller 1/600 model of the Couronne with the intention of using it for Man O'War or Dreadfleet as a Bretonnian Galleon. Sadly it turned out to be way too large for either application. When I found it again in the stash, and having run out of momentum with the Dwarf fleet for a bit (I can't progress until I decide on basing), I decided to have a go at the build/conversion anyway, just for fun and possibly for display.

What can I say about the Heller model, it is rough, it really shows its age. But that is not a problem in this case, as its roughness released me from the need to be finicky and delicate with my alterations. :D
No expansive explanations or blow-by-blows for this build, just a few quick piccies:

She's a big one, isn't she?

Conversion in progress. Yes, that is a Trebuchet on the middle deck. This is a Bretonnian vessel after all! Brother Gunfondler has sauntered over to give an idea of size.

And the point at which I called her done, just as today's daylight started to fail. I replaced the rear flagpole (which didn't flow with the rest of the ship) with a nice, pompous armoured wheelhouse.

See you next time!