🚢 Brig Ship Skeleton – Pirate-Fashion Mannequin Base・Free 3D File for ・Cults

Begin your subsequent shipbuilding venture with this laser-cut picket skeleton modeled after traditional 18th-century brigs — the quick, agile ships favored by retailers, navies, and sure, even pirates.

Measuring approx. 16″ (406mm) from stem to stern and three.25″ (83mm) at its widest level, this framework contains the keel and bulkheads wanted to kind the sturdy base of your mannequin, good for making use of your individual planks, decks, and sails.

⚓ Impressed by historic brig and pirate ship designs
🪚 Interlocking tabs for straightforward, exact meeting
🛠️ Nice for hobbyists, educators, and makers
🧱 Corresponding to 3mm (1/8”) plywood, MDF, or acrylic
📏 Approximate scale: 1:72 (adjustable as wanted)
🎨 Print and Able to be painted, custom-made, or detailed
Deliver your nautical imaginative and prescient to life — from service provider brig to battle-ready privateer. Whether or not you are crafting a centerpiece or constructing a fleet, this body units the course.

Meeting

Begin on the bow with rib 1 and work your method again. You’ll want one thing to press the ribs into the keel. The total keel is 16″ lengthy and about 3.25″ extensive on the beam, so you might must slice it to suit your printer. Every part is scalable. Created from a laser-cut file because of an actual shipwright nicknamed Pirate Rob — this can be a skeleton body mannequin nice for hobbyists and shipbuilders alike.

The Story Behind the Ship

This mannequin began with a easy act of giving. I used to be making a gift of some previous instruments when a person named Rob got here by to choose them up. As we bought to speaking, I came upon he wasn’t simply any hobbyist—he was a shipwright who works on actual ships… and, in accordance with him, a “former” pirate. Naturally, I needed to hear extra.

“Pirate Rob,” as he launched himself, instructed me he additionally builds mannequin ships and requested if I may assist carry a laser cutter file he needed to life as a 3D-printed mannequin. I used to be all in. A day later, I had printed the primary prototype from his design. The unique format had laser-cut numbering that didn’t translate properly to FDM printing, so I went again in and created a second model—this time with bigger, embossed numbers for simpler meeting.

And that’s how Pirate Rob and I ended up collaborating on my very first laser-cut-inspired mannequin ship skeleton.