Corsairs of Umbar

The Corsairs of Umbar!

Here is a great way to build 28mm scale model ships. It looks a lot easier than the way I've been doing it, though I wager my ship models will last longer! Essentially the LOTR ships are modified dhows. Whats interessting is that they have junk sails just like the ship in the animated film 'Sinbad', yet I've never seen an image of a real life dhow with junk sails. I guess this is due to western misconceptions of non western ship types, or maybe there just aren't that many 'foreign looking' ship types to choose from...