Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-05

[pierre the shy]

    

But where is the Kamchatka? Has the "Hull fishing fleet" already caught up to her?   

Probably not since I was waiting for the Russians to arrive before finishing the Channel Fleet.

The simple answer I think you will find is that not even Paul has enough painting rods to fit all the ships we got at once  

[Steve J]

Cracking work and well worth the wait !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Brilliant work. Looks ace

[fsn]

I have to say poor old No 69.

It doesn't have a real name; it's only half tuberculosis, and I bet it's crew gets mocked mercilessly about their nocturnal activities.


Beautiful work.

[paulr]

I have to say poor old No 69...

She deserves more pity than you think.
No69 was lost 28.5.1905 during Tsushima battle: she was rammed by the torpedo boat destroyer Akatsuki (former Russian Reshitelny).
She was the only torpedo boat of her class sunk during the war.

[paulr]

A batch of smaller bases painted and magnetic vinyl glued on the bottom

Labels applied to the 2 bases I was short

[fsn]

No69 was lost 28.5.1905 during Tsushima battle: she was rammed by the torpedo boat destroyer Akatsuki (former Russian Reshitelny).

Oh no! Was she split in two so both ends end down?

[paulr]

 

[paulr]

Finally got around to doing the grey touch ups on the half batch of Japanese

Look to have avoided the need to do any deck or other touch ups, so avoided the circle of doom

[mmcv]

Those look great! 

[paulr]

Washed the Japanese half batch

[paulr]

A couple of coats of blue on the integral bases of the smaller torpedo boats in the Japanese half batch  

Sorted, prepared and washed a batch of Russian ships    

[paulr]

Drilled the holes and glued in masts on the batch of Russian ships  

Based the half batch of Japanese ships, plus the couple of Russian Minelayers I'd missed the labels for

[paulr]

Cut masts to length on the Russian batch

Had to reglue a couple of the masts, lost one in the process and had to recut, reglue and cut to length again  
Fortunately the glue held on both reglued masts 

Painted waves and wakes on the half batch of Japanese ships, plus the Russian Minelayers

Undercoated the Russian batch

[paulr]

Painted the first side of a couple of batches of bases need for the Russian batch