Materials Needed
-	self healing cutting mat
o	this makes things easier, but you can do without it

-	glue pen
o	I use an Elmers No-Wrinkle Glue pen.  The glue is an orange tint, but dries clear.  I find normal white glue wrinkles the pages too much and “superglue” dries too brittle

-	Hot glue gun
o	this is solely for gluing the sails onto the masts.  The glue dries with a good hold and sort of rubbery.  Its much easier to use and holds better than regular glue.

-	steel ruler

-	exacto knife, sharp!

-	Something to score the paper with
o	This is for folds
o	I’ve heard a ball point pen with the ink removed works great
o	If you turn your exacto blade over you can use the dull point

-	Inkjet printer

-	Packaging tape
o	I’ll go into this more later, but I use it to “laminate” the base

-	coloured felt pens and pencils
o	these are used for edging, makes the model look even better
o	I’ll talk about edging later

Print it out 
-	I use matte photo paper, but even your normal paper you use for letters will turn out just fine.  Once everything is glued together it gets stiffer.  Another option is cardstock.  110lb cardstock is the preferred weight.

Score Everything first
-	try and be as exact lining your ruler up as possible.  This will help everything line up when gluing.

Cut it Out, Rough Cut
Base
-	Cut the base out 
Main Ship Body
-	just roughly cut near the guide lines.  You will end up with a rough rectangle that will get folded up in half and glued together later.
Sails and Pennants
-	same as with the main ship body 

Gluing
Main Ship Body
-	fold the ship along the fold line
-	reverse fold the two tabs at the bottom of the ships hull
-	smear the glue on
o	don’t use too much or too little   both are bad
-	bring the two halves together
o	if your scoring was perfect then the black guidelines should match up, if not then try and match them up.
o	Using your steel ruler or anything flat press the two sides together to get a good fit making sure the black guidelines stay lined up.
o	Put it under something flat and heavy to dry
Sails
-	same as instructions for Main Ship Body
Pennants
-	do not glue these together until the whole ship is put together.  They will be glued around the flag poles
Base
-	do not glue this together yet either.  This will get glued once we slip the finished main ship body into it.
-	If you want to use all those little triangles and circles I put on the base to help in record keeping during the game (I’ll tell you more about how this works at the end of the document) then you need to laminate the top surface.
-	I found the simplest way to laminate it is to use a roll of packing tape you can get at any office supply store.  The stuff you use to package up boxes.  Its maybe two inches wide and clear.
o	Fold up the base so only the top is showing
o	Cut a piece of tape a little longer than the base
o	Put the tape on the base
o	Cut off all excess tape from the edges
o	The base is laminated, dry erase markers should work on the surface now
-	there is a white line down the middle of the ship.  Cut along this line.  The tabs on the main ship will slip through this cut when it’s finished.

Cut it Out, Finished Cut
This unfortunately is the hard part, but its not that bad.  The better a cutting job you do the better your finished product will look.

Pennants
-	these we have to cut without first gluing.
-	It’s a little harder to keep everything lined up when its not glued, but they are only straight cuts.
-	Fold the pennants over and cut them out
Sails
-	I would make the cut along the yard arm first
-	Then cut along the straight edge of the sail
-	Finally make your cut along the curved edge
-	Take your time
-	At this time we need to also give our sails the beautiful curve they need
o	Put the yard arm along the handle of your exacto knife (I’m assuming you have a round handle) or a pencil/pen and gently bend the sail around it
Main Ship Body
-	this is the hard part 
-	cut as close to the actual ship’s edge as you can
-	do as good a job as you can, if you mess up don’t worry.  A lot can be fixed up with “edging” later

Edging
This is really important if you want a professional looking finished model.  The problem with paper is its white and most things we want to build with it are not.  When we make a cut through the paper, the resulting edge shows as white.  What we want to do is to use a coloured felt or pencil and colour the edge to the approximate colour it should be.  This doesn’t need to be a perfect match.  Its just so our eyes don’t notice an edge of white on our red sails.

Felts would be the best and easiest to use, but they do bleed into the paper and give a messy edge when viewed from the side.  I might use a black or brown felt when edging a part that was primarily that colour.  Coloured pencils are better.  But they don’t give off as much colour since you can’t “draw” on the edge very hard without bending the paper object.  Experiment with edging.  You will find the models look a lot better when edged!  Oh and don’t forget to edge the base, a blue felt pen does the trick.

Assembly
Main Ship Body and Base
-	the tabs on the main ship’s body slip into the slit we cut on the base.  Then glue these tabs to the underside of the base.  Then fold and glue the white bottom.  Finally fold and glue the blue bottom.
-	You should have a model ship without pennants and sails now
Sails
-	first pinch the base of the each mast between two fingers and twist the mast slightly so that the mast is halfway facing the front of the ship and the side.  Be careful not to tear or break the mast.  This will make it easier to mount the sails to the mast.  
-	The smaller sail goes on the back mast even though it looks like it fits better on the front mast 
-	Take a sail and line it up on a mast.  Find out the best place to put it and note where the mast touches the sail.  This is where you will put a small dab of hot glue onto the sail and then attach it to the mast.
-	Glue the sails to the masts
Pennants
-	first put the wave in the pennant by using your round exacto or pencil/pen like we did with the sails
-	then put some glue on the pennant and wrap it around the flag pole

You should have a beautiful looking paper model of a Wolfship now.

Whats all those numbers, triangles, squares, and little blue men all about?

I haven’t tested my idea (since I have still never played the game), but I thought there needed to be a better way to keep track of damage to the ship.  Something along the lines of the Wizkids Clix games.  Having to put a template out for each ship seemed a bit much.  I know some players have simply shrunken the template cards to save space, but that still leaves the problem of knowing which template goes to which ship.  So I thought why not laminate the base and put all the record keeping on the actual model.  Then by using a dry erase marker you can simply cross off anything that is damaged.

You still need one template for each ship type you have in your fleet to consult after the attack roll and save roll.

I can make bases without all the record keeping stuff if requested.

-	Triangles are for the sails
-	Circles are for the cannon
-	The thing that sort of looks like the end of an oar are for oars 
-	The squares are for miscellaneous items that get damaged (Stern of the Wolfship)
-	The “X”’s and the star like symbol are for below the waterline hits, the star means it’s sunk
-	The men are for the crew
-	Finally the red outline tells you that once this item is destroyed the next hits will cause critical damage

That’s it.  No idea how well it will work.  Hope to try it all out soon myself!

Other ideas:
-	print the base out on magnetic inkjet paper
o	this will enable you to store your models better since they will stick to a metal carrying case
-	glue the base to something heavier (wood, metal, ?) so the model won’t move around so easy.

Morval