Tumbling Dice

[paulr]

I'll take some pictures once I've had a chance to varnish them and let you lot decide

Forecast is showers and/or windy all week

[paulr]

A beautiful sunny day today so I got the ships varnished before the wind got up

I should get a chance to photograph them this afternoon

[paulr]

Photographs as promised...

Two large three deckers, one large frigate and two frigates





Eight three deckers





Eight large two deckers





Sixteen two deckers

[paulr]

A picture with a ruler to give a better indication of the size of the ships


Some of these are from the initial batch and some from the last batch, anyone care to guess which are which

And finally a picture of all my ships



  2  Large three deckers
  9 Three deckers
14 Large two deckers
26 Two deckers
  3 Large Frigates
  6 Frigates
60 Total

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are awesome incarnate!

[OldenBUA]

Some of these are from the initial batch and some from the last batch, anyone care to guess which are which :-

Very fine looking ships and quite a lot of them too!

First and third are one batch, second and fourth another. But I only noticed because you mentioned something about the base colour being different. If you hadn't I would never have seen it!

[toxicpixie]

Lovely stuff, Paul!

Are they all on 40mm by 15mm (?) bases or are the smaller ones at the top on shorter bases - I can't quite tell on the phone!

[paulr]

@ OldenBUA - correct

@ toxicpixie - Ships of the line are on 40x20, Frigates on 30x20 to help differentiate them

In my rules 40mm = 1 cable

[Techno]

Those ARE rather spiffy !

Cheers - Phil

[toxicpixie]

Good idea Paul, I've been debating what to do with mine

[d_Guy]

Just excellent work as always, Paul. Really like your basing technique. I'm going to look back through the thread and see if you described your method. If it is not there, what IS your method? 

[paulr]

My basing is based on a method I picked up on here

I paint the base the appropriate blue and then glue the ship to the base.

I then use a filler (Spackle), paint and PVA mix to cover the base and blend the moulded sea on the model. Once the mix has started to dry I use a toothpick to lift the mix to form the waves. Then once fully dry I dry brush around the ship and the waves white.