foxbat's stuff. last update 06/11//2025 BB-61 USS Iowa

[chrisswim]

Very nice pictures.
I do like the terrain and sunlight in the pictures.
Excellent!

[pmskaar]

Excellent work on the IJN Maya, Foxbat! I also love the backdrop you have there.

[foxbat]

Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen!

I got the painting juices running again, and could do a few more ships. Scharnhorst in in its 1942 Operation Cerberus livery, it is a "repaired" model (the best I could do from my bits box leftovers... ) and unbased as I already have that ship in my collection and don't intend to keep it.

[foxbat]

Gneisenau is in what's supposed to be a 1940 paint job. I've got some doubts that the Kriegsmarine would have given it an elaborate arctic paint job at that time, as it was undergoing repairs in Germany after operation Weserubung and when it sailed again in January 1941 for operation Berlin, it was painted simple grey with mustard turret roofs. But well, since it looked cool...

[redleg]

Those are both beautiful ships, Foxbat! Superbly painted!

[pmskaar]

Great work on the Gneisenau, Foxbat! The camo is excellently rendered.

[chrisswim]

Wonderful looking ships Foxbat

[foxbat]

Thanks for the kind word, gentlemen. I really appreciate, and they encourage me to keep painting.

I've taken a new step expanding my collection, by painting aircraft carriers : I only painted for playing, and carrier battles are so more easily played without models. But Sam Mustafa's NIMITZ rules set seems to make it possible, and even if they are never used for games, they are fun to paint and nice to add to my collection.

Thanks also to Flight Deck Decals. I've discovered their products at this occasion, and I can't recommand them enough, as they save the impossible job of painting the various signals of a flight deck.

My first carrier was the HMS Furious, which seems about right as it was also the 1st ever carrier to be commissioned.

[foxbat]

Now, IJN's light carrier Ryujo. Not a very successful design, as it was intended to exhaust the tonnage left over by the treaty of Washington but a fairly useful little ship, which took part in most carrier actions of 1942 before meeting its doom at the battle of the Eastern Solomons.

[redleg]

Those are gorgeous ships, Foxbat! I'm pretty blown away by the amount of detail you are putting into the aircraft on deck!

[pmskaar]

Excellent work on both of those carriers, Foxbat! You do have great painting skill and combined with the excellent product from Flight Deck, they look extraordinary.

[BurtWolf]

Incredible work - just great to look at!!!

[foxbat]

Thanks for the praises, gentlemen. The Ryujo was the last ship missing from Java 42 campaign project... Now to find teh time & opponents to actually play it

I've reverted to the 1st World War, and completed my Jutland Beginning project : After Hipper's Aufklarung Staffel & Beatty's 1st & 2nd Battlecruiser Squadrons, here comes Evan-Thomas' 5th battle Squadron. I may still add a few German dreadnoughts, and SMS Blücher for the early war raids as well as the Invincible class, but the core of the project is done and will allow me the game the beginning of Jutland, the Skagerrak Schlacht, which has been fascinating me for 40 years. Come on, how could beatty be beaten with what he had ?

The whole squadron sailing into battle


And à tout seigneur tout honneur, the mighty Warspite












Since I own also the WW2 model, here they are side by side for comparison. You can see the rebuild was quite extensive, with these torpedo bulges and modernised bridge, and single funnel

[foxbat]

The remainder of the squadron, the whole Queen Elizabeth class, minus of course the QE herself that was missing at Jutland. Starting with Evan-Thomas flagship, HMS Barham










HMS Malaya










HMS Valiant

[foxbat]

Torpedo Boats & Torpedo Boat Destroyers played a big part too at Jutland, both during the Battlecruiser Action and the Dreadnought battle (and it has been lasting to the present day too, given the not little amount of controversy it has spawned till today). Models are mounted on a grouped base : they’re intended for wargaming) , each base can represent a variable total of ships, without the need of moving each of the individually. They must be both scary (all these torpedoes !) and easy to kill so the battle can proceed once they’re out of the way, one way or another.

German Torpedo Boats




And British Torpedo Boat Destroyers (the brown are supposed to be corticene, not sure it was already in use in 1916, but it looked cool)