Italo-Turkish & First Balkan Naval Wars

[paulr]

No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

NO!

Please, no! 

They're really, really attractive.

I now want some.

I don't need this in my life.

I have been considering a new (to me) way of doing naval wargames.  I always hated the look of battleships pinging away at each other from very short ranges. I pondered dividing the playing surface into 3. Force A on one side, force B on the other and a bit in the middle for destroyers to mix it up. Conceptually the two main forces could be very far apart, but the middle ground would be where you might actually get ships of both side appearing.

It's a Work in Progress that I haven't thoiught about for a while. Now, seeing these, I'm reaching for the book on Force H ...

I am, as the Scotsman said, Doomed.   

Happy to help Nobby

The three zones is an interesting idea. One of the advantages of pre-dreadnought naval is that the ranges are shorter
The ground scale we will be using is 1cm : 100 yards or 1 : 9,144 so our 1/3,000 scale ships aren't too far out of scale

[paulr]

A three hour basing session last night

I ran out of filler, paint, PVA mix with four ships left to do
I was not going to mix up another batch of mix, they will be based with the next lot of ships

The seascape has blended well with the moulded bases of the smaller torpedo boats
As I expected I will need to paint the base to get a uniform colour and complete the blend

[Ithoriel]

Those look really good. The wire masts really make a difference.

[fsn]

Happy to help Nobby

The three zones is an interesting idea. One of the advantages of pre-dreadnought naval is that the ranges are shorter
The ground scale we will be using is 1cm : 100 yards or 1 : 9,144 so our 1/3,000 scale ships aren't too far out of scale

I've been quite fascinated by the Med in 1940-41, before the Germans came in and spoiled the fun. The Italian Navy was in parts very modern and there are quite a few "what if's" with the French fleet in 1940. What if they'd decide to break for Martinique in 1940 as opposed to waiting in port until the RN ... visited them?

Dammit! I know what's going to happen, I do, I really do! 

[paulr]

Definitely an interesting area and period, FSN. Pierre the Shy is keen on the Med but our focus so far has been a little later

Touched up the seascapes in a few places last night

Base coated the next two batches; more Italians and the first of the Australian-Hungarians
I'm pleased with the look of the green I've used for the Austrian-Hungarians
It will be interesting to see how it works with my planned deck colours

[pierre the shy]

Base coated the next two batches; more Italians and the first of the Australian-Hungarians
I'm pleased with the look of the green I've used for the Austrian-Hungarians

Can you enlighten us about the Australian-Hungarian navy you are building Paul - even I've not heard of them  

FWIW I painted the Russian Vladivostock Cruiser Squadron last night - Valejo Olive Drab is the recommended shade according to WTJ.

[paulr]

Bloody autocorrect 

[paulr]

No progress on the Austro-Hungarians last night

But I did get the bases for the small torpedo boats painted

[paulr]

Very limited progress again last night

But I have painted the decks of the Austro-Hungarians so far this morning

[paulr]

Reasonable progress today

The current batch of Austro-Hungarians and Italians are now painted
They just need touch ups
The deck colours look to have worked for the Austro-Hungarians 

Painted the waves and wakes on the last batch

Cut out the bases for this batch and those I missed last batch

[fsn]

How do you paint your ships?

Hull then decks, decks then hull?

Just asking, if I ever want to ...

[Ithoriel]

Usually hull first for me, basically there's more hull than deck so less effort involved in adding the colour neatly.

[Westmarcher]

How do you paint your ships?

Hull then decks, decks then hull?

Just asking, if I ever want to ...

That's easy. For me it's hull then decks ..... then hull then decks .... then  hull .... then decks    ... then the fr*gg*n hull .....   

[d_Guy]

 

[paulr]

Hulls then decks

I usually use two similar but different deck colours for different ships of each navy to add a bit of variety, e.g. Austro-Hungarians Tan Yellow or Iraqi Sand

Then funnel tops, boats, boat covers, boot topping (these little details really lift the ships)

Then touch ups as Westmarcher suggests

Finally a black wash to bring out the details and hide some of the touch ups I've missed