Sunday 10 January 2021

On the painting table - Vince Cholewa 04/01/2021

 

What’s on your painting table? It would be great to see your posts of what you have on the go and what you might have got from Santa.
On my painting table are:
- Three elements of Bohemian knights, painted and varnished ready for basing. These are the last elements for my early 16th Century Polish.
- Two baby elephants that work perfectly as elephants with riders instead of howdahs. It is a tip I picked up (last century) from one of the modelling magazines. These are for my Seleucids.
- Stakes (temporary fortifications - TF) for my Early Imperial Romans. In November, Graham Starkey and I played a game inspired by Claudius’ invasion of Britain and I discovered I did not have enough TF for my Roman marching camp.





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  • Russell Briant
    Not DBMM (yet) but I’ve got fixated on the Black Seas naval game and cut two of their small plastic brigs not quite in half and then rejoined the parts to make a longer ship and a shorter one.
    The long one I finished yesterday as a Spanish Jabeque (Xebec) and the shorter as a Goleta (Schooner)...
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    • Russell Briant
      Ended up looking like this... the San Mateo and the Elizabet







    • Russell Briant
      ‘Tother side...




    • Vincent Cholewa
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      Russell Briant
       nice work. I have a set of DBx Renaissance naval rules that need vessels ...
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    • Russell Briant
      San Mateo started like this...


    • Vincent Cholewa
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       you have done a great job. My attempts at cutting and rejoining have been on toy soldiers and always ended up with mismatched joins and lots of glue and filler. The finishing of your vessels is excellent 👍
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    • Neil Williamson
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       what bit of kit is the raised poop deck from?
      Plus I like the way you have angled the yardv arms. Permission to copy the idea.
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    • Russell Briant
      Neil Williamson
       I can send you a post on three techniques I experimented with to reposition the yards.
      The poop deck on the Jabeque is a scratch build from plastic.
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    • Neil Williamson
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       did you buy sets of sails separately so you can mix and match?
      I hadn't thought of kit bashing but it sounds a really fun way of making the different ships they have provided rules for.
      Thanks for the idea
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    • Russell Briant
      Neil here’s what I posted elsewhere
      Dry fitting the masts to my Xebec tonight.
      Had fun today experimenting with diagonally swinging the yards around the masts today.
      Found a few ways that worked.
      1. Splicing the top mast then filing at an angle and rejoining.
      2. Cutting above the mast with the furled sails. Then drilling a hole down into the mast. Then cutting below the sail. Then threading a cut down plastic javelin into the hole and treading all the bits back together while canting the yard.
      3. Lastly carefully cutting out the yards from the mast. Refilling the gap in the mast with plastic scrap melted with glue. Once set, re-gluing on the yards, but swung around.
      All seem to work. Will use the last two again.
      The photo is of technique 1 and 2.
      No photo description available.
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    • Neil Williamson
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       that would be great thanks.
      9 ships done, 20 to go. Unless I buy some more of course lol.
      There are some pics of my ships on the Masterton Marauders group.
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    • Russell Briant
      Oooh. We need a game or two in due course.
      There’s a few fleets about.
      I have 14 to go (yay)
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    • eil Williamson
       they came with sails. They are two sided printed thin-ish card.
      Many of the sails on these two are straight from those.
      I have cut up a few to make sails I didn’t have.
      You can order sails separately from Warlord Games which I have done to give me options.

    • Neil Williamson
      Russell Briant
       wow, thanks.
      Its a pity the yard arms aren't separate then you could easily angle them.
      I'll give it a go on my next ships.
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    • Russell Briant
      Just announced some new ships. Maybe they’ll make that change.
      But also have another constituency that mightn’t like the additional complexity.
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    • Neil Williamson
      Russell Briant
       yes, that's what I thought of doing. You can then have plenty of options of colours and options.
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    • Neil Williamson
      Russell Briant
       New ships? I'm off to the website now to look.
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    • Kelly Gay
      Nice. I have a couple of Napoleonic fleets if anyone wants to buy them? British, Spanish/French and some US stuff. They are taking up valuable space these days, and i can't imagine using them again anytime soon! K
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    • Russell Briant

      The official FB page posted this from the author.
      “2020. What a year it has been. We had such good plans to release a LOT more models for BLS this year but, alas, covid thwarted them all.
      However, 2021 WILL be different, as we have some great new releases coming out.
      Xebecs, galleys, generic 4th rates, generic 2nd rates, small 3rd rates (64s, so I can finally model my favourite ship: the Agamemnon), some more named ships, maybe a generic razeed! And a printed supplement.
      Unfortunately this will not be in the first months of the year but I am counting on just before or after Easter, so hang in there as reinforcements are on their way.
      I will post some preview pics in the next few days. Here is the 1st.”


    • Neil Williamson
      Russell Briant
       Thanks. Never thought to look at the FB page, just the website
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  • Russell Briant
    And Elizabet like this.
    Learned a poultice of new things in the process.
    History of the Real Armada.
    Contrast paint use.
    Rigging with cotton
    Adding paper sails...
    Happy place.


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