Back in April 2022 I built a number of warships for my Belle Époque imagi-nations. They looked like this:
My scratch-built Burgundian battleships.
My scratch-built Schwarzenberg battleships.
My scratch-built Khakistani battleships.
Whilst they are perfectly acceptable, I've been thinking about building some new models to replace them. For inspiration, I have been looking at the MAJOR GENERAL TREMORDEN REDERRING'S COLONIAL WARGAMES PAGE. (Although the creator of the page - David Helber - no longer adds to it and the original URL no longer works, it is available thanks to it being archived by Wayback Machine,)
On the 'Ships and Boats for Colonial-era Gaming' page, David describes the models ships that he has built and used in his Colonial wargames, including the Ironclad Ram HMS Tempestuous ... which, with a different flag, became the SMS Dundermaus.
The model is 9-inches long and scaled to work with 25/28mm figures. As my ships need to look right alongside 15mm figures, I could reproduce something similar and it would be just under 6-inches long ... which I think is eminently doable.
An excellent model there Bob from David and one that has so much character to it, rather like your ones at the top of the post.
ReplyDeleteThat was a brilliant, entertaining, inspiring webpage. I'm still using some of his techniques for building buildings.
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