Cruel Seas Convoy

[Last Hussar]

Wargaming loose change for you.

[fsn]

Yeeess.

I spent about £250 on 47 ships over 2 years ... and haven't painted one of them yet!

[Orcs]

Wargaming loose change for you.

I agree its not horrendous amounts of money, but a little more than I want to spend at present.  There is also the possibility of the Black Sails game

[Ithoriel]

I agree its not horrendous amounts of money, but a little more than I want to spend at present.  There is also the possibility of the Black Sails game

Go 1:600th

They take up less space - both on-table and in storage.

Less detail but therefore faster to paint.

Admittedly the plastic ships are much the same price as the 1/600 ones but everything else (ships, planes, terrain) is hugely cheaper.

[Orcs]

Go 1:600th

They take up less space - both on-table and in storage.

Less detail but therefore faster to paint.

Admittedly the plastic ships are much the same price as the 1/600 ones but everything else (ships, planes, terrain) is hugely cheaper.

The problem is all the other I game with have gone 1:300 so I either have to go with 1:300 or do both sides.  Also the most expensive bit is the cloth, and that's the same cost no matter what scale you play

[Last Hussar]

Have you considered becoming blue/green colour blind

Also how much are you spending on a blue cloth!

[sunjester]

But he wants a pretty cloth!

[Orcs]

Also how much are you spending on a blue cloth!

A Tiny Terrain cloth is £60 for 6x 4 feet, but if I get one that fits my new table its about £125

But he wants a pretty cloth!

Exactly, otherwise I might as well use cardboard counters for the ships.  I like my tables to look pretty

[sunjester]

I have added a new vessel to my British fleet, an armed Isles Trawler with a 3 pounder gun and two twin 20mm. It is my first 3D printed model, from this chap https://www.magpiedesigner.com/.

Before and after pictures on the blog https://grahamsgaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-new-ship.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Like, a lot

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice trawler, I've gone for both scales as I had a load of 1/600th already. One advantage of 1/600th - Tamiya 1/700th scale destroyers - OK a bit small but who's complaining? at £9.99 a pair, I have 2 O class, and 2 1936 German types...

IanS

[Techno]

That really is a nice little model..And you've done a cracking job on that  one SJ.

Cheers - Phil

[Sunray]

I have added a new vessel to my British fleet, an armed Isles Trawler with a 3 pounder gun and two twin 20mm. It is my first 3D printed model, from this chap https://www.magpiedesigner.com/.

Before and after pictures on the blog https://grahamsgaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-new-ship.html

Graham - a neat discovery is your magpie designer !  And thanks for your review.  The painted model look well.  Regards -  James

[paulr]

 

[Orcs]

That looks very nice, just ready for the S boats to put a couple of torpedoes in.

You are really painting them very fast.