Thanks Scott, right now I'm concentrating on building for the Battle of the Atlantic so its just the Brits and the Germans right now. Eventually do plan on expanding into the Med and the Pacific, but that's a ways off.
I'm trying to post lots of pix to boost interest in naval wargaming. We're starting a small new wargaming club out here in Vegas so when we start using these ships in action I'll be sure to post a photo summary of the action.
In the meantime I've been practicing with the camera for fleet shots (I really need to get a good backdrop for the photos). Below are shots of Somerville's Force H leaving Gibraltar and others of the big surface raiders of the Kriegsmarine being escorted out to sea by a flotilla of destroyers.
Force H:
HMS Renown (flag)
HMS Ark Royal
HMS Sheffield
HMS Faulknor
HMS Foresight
HMS Forester
HMS Foxhound
HMS Fury
HMS Hesperus
Well, I don't have any GHQ stuff in here yet, but I took some pictures today of the start of my Liberty Ship loading supplies diorama. I'm having problems with photobucket, but here are five of the nine pictures so far:
The cargo pallets and cargo are probably way over scale, but I like how they look (and those are two 16 inch shells on the pallet there, I had four, but two disappeared).
I'm going to put one or two jeeps in the hold and I'll have one being lifted from the dock to the hold by the ships cranes.
About eight years ago I built the Grand Fleet and the High Seas Fleet to fight the Battle of Jutland. Since then my painting and basing skills have improved with the help of practice and this forum.
The fleets have spent most of that time boxed away in hiding from my kids, but it seemed a shame to leave them that way, so tonight the Grand Fleet sortied from Scapa Flow:
The battle squadrons with destroyer screen:
Jellicoe's flagship HMS Iron Duke:
Captain Stirling's 12th Destroyer Flotilla:
2nd and 4th Battle Squadrons at full speed heading towards the High Seas Fleet:
Dude man you make me sick with your consistency. LOL! Just kidding man, But on a serious not. You do have the best work I have ever seen. Your bases are of equal width for all ships and proper length for all your ship classes. Your paint work looks like it has all been done by airbrush. Your color scheme is the same for every ship from the same nation. Really I must take my hat off to you. I have been working with GHQ ships for almost 15 years. I have over 300 of them and most are painted in so many different shades of colors. My Japanese ships most of all because I always made a custom Blue/Grey color that changed every time my supply ran out or went bad. Or I felt the need to alter the shade. But here are some pics of mine anyway.
Really fantastic work on those BT-5s. Did you do this in 1 weekend start to finish? How did you drill out the square hatches on thes and what did you use to make the frame antennas. These are really great.
To Cbovill and Skeem. Great ships and very nice little vignettes. Cbovill your work is really great on your various fleets. I will be getting back to doing some more ships for WWII Pacific later this year. My current projects are painting more buildings and my 1942 Russian Front forces.
Really fantastic work on those BT-5s. Did you do this in 1 weekend start to finish? How did you drill out the square hatches on thes and what did you use to make the frame antennas. These are really great.
I gotta agree with Pete ... man, Paul, those BTs are GREAT!
Please do share how you did the square hatches and the frame antennas. Oh pleeeaazze!
-Mark 1 Difficile est, saturam non scribere. "It is hard NOT to write satire." - Decimus Iunius Juvenalis, 1st Century AD
Really fantastic work on those BT-5s. Did you do this in 1 weekend start to finish? How did you drill out the square hatches on thes and what did you use to make the frame antennas. These are really great.
Pete - Binpicker, Out!
Pete, Mk1 and jb:
Thanks guys. I started these on Friday night (scratchbuilding and primer), basecoat and oil washed on Saturday night , and drybrushed Sunday night. Maybe a total of 10 hours.
I handdrilled out the hatches with a #80 bit at the corners, and a 1/32 bit in the center. Then used a brand new xacto blade to connect the holes and square up the edges and corners. Hatches were made from .010 styrene sheet.
Frame antenna were made with plastruct .010 white styrene rod. Held in horseshoe shape with scotch tape until, I could tack glue it to the support arms with CA glue, and accelerator.
Crew are from DAK artillery crew with headgear removed and replaced with soft russian tankers helmet made from white putty (Vallejo).
I still need to put vehicle markings, and need to weather. I just couldn't resist posting.
It appears to me you have chosen to NOT base them, but have places some white "foaming" along the waterlines. Is that right?
Could you give us a close-up of one or two? In particular, the old battlewagons down-front-center look nice to me. Pennsylvania/Arizona or Nevada? I can't make it out from the distance, but those yellow-wings on the spotter planes it looks MUY BUENO!
Also, what are those small craft following behind the old battlewagons? LCIs or some such?
And behind the jeep carrier ... do I see a couple LSTs followed by some DEs?
All in all, quite a sight!
-Mark 1 Difficile est, saturam non scribere. "It is hard NOT to write satire." - Decimus Iunius Juvenalis, 1st Century AD
