Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-05

[paulr]

Ships dry brushed

Funnel tops painted

Decks painted, two coats as light decks over darker base colours
There will need to be some touch ups

[paulr]

Ships' boats painted  
A good way to add some variety and emphasise the detail of the models

[paulr]

Order of bases and 'other things' from Pendraken has cleared Customs and is on its way to a local/regional delivery depot

Interestingly this order includes only one 10mm pack

But lots of other things

[Steve J]

Looking forward to seeing some painted ships when they're done. Shame the Navwar site doesn't have many, if any, images .

[paulr]

The pictures are getting closer

I've done the touch ups and was very very pleased:

• that I didn't need to go back and touch up any of the decks
• the second lot of Black with a brown tint that I mixed up matched the first  

A package from Pendraken arrived today with the bases for the ships and some other things

[paulr]

First batch of bases painted on both sides

[steve_holmes_11]

All this harking back to range estimation and other 2nd generation gaming mechanics prompted me to comtemplate a 1st generation naval game.

Large patio, or gym hall, fairly large cardboard cutout warships and a nerf gun for each team.

Little (Naval) Wars.

[paulr]

Sounds like fun

Ships washed

Magnetic vinyl glued to underside of first batch of bases

One side of second batch of bases painted

[paulr]

Torpedo boat bases painted sea colour

The smaller NavWar torpedo boats have an integral sea base so all the ships will have seascape bases rather than my normal flat bases to match the blue sheet I use as a base cloth

Second side done on second batch of bases

Pierre the Shy has kindly printed the ship labels for me which I'll collect at our regular game tonight

[paulr]

Second coat on the Torpedo boat bases

Magnetic vinyl glued to second batch of bases

First side painted on third batch of bases

[paulr]

Second side painted on third batch of bases

[paulr]

Magnetic vinyl glued to third batch of bases

Bases labeled for all but two of the currently painted ships  

Some fool forgot to create the labels for the two Russian Minelayers
I've created them now and will get them printed, along with any others I've missed, by the kindly Pierre the Shy

Ships sorted onto bases freeing up painting rods for the next batch
Wednesday next week is the first day forecast to have undercoating weather

[paulr]

Weather was better than expected this afternoon 

So a half batch of Japanese ships that I had already prepared and added masts to have been under coated

[paulr]

Half batch of Japanese ships base coated 

[d_Guy]

Weather was better than expected this afternoon 

So a half batch of Japanese ships that I had already prepared and added masts to have been under coated

So, the half batch was insufficiently coated and now have to be recoated?