Tumbling Dice

[getagrip]

AND the ship's cat!

Love to see the detail on that at this scale.

[Wulf]

My little bases arrived, but are unfortunately just too small - the measurements looked OK, but 'in the flesh' they're too tight to get even the simple labelling I want. I'll get some Minibits bases, but I'm waiting for another Pendraken order to arrive, and I don't want to put another in just for that!

[Westmarcher]

AND the ship's cat!

It's not the cat - it's its nine tails that scare me! 

[paulr]

My little bases arrived, but are unfortunately just too small - the measurements looked OK, but 'in the flesh' they're too tight to get even the simple labelling I want. I'll get some Minibits bases, but I'm waiting for another Pendraken order to arrive, and I don't want to put another in just for that!

What size were your little bases Wulf? I don't want to make the same mistake

[Wulf]

I went for absolute minimum, 10x20mm. Which, in retrospect, made sense for the ship hulls, but not the metal bases moulded on...

I'll buy 15x30 bases this time around. I may still use the 10x20 ones for the small craft. I wanted to use 1" hexes, to get the biggest possible number on a map, but I've given up that hope!

[paulr]

Thanks Wulf

I'm going for 15x30 for Frigates and smaller and 20x40 for Ships of the line with names etc on 'temporary' extensions. Sounds like I will have ample room

Not using hexes, using 4cm to the cable and home made rulers

[Wulf]

Not using hexes, using 4cm to the cable and home made rulers

Yes, if I were using anything more complex than the 1-page rules I'd go for bigger bases. I do have lots of 20x40 bases (and huge numbers of Magister Militum minis they came with...), but even the triple deckers look a bit small on there...

[paulr]

I've had a look and can only find 1939-41 and Coastal naval rules from Pz8. Could you point me at a link, interested to have a read.

[Wulf]

Looks like they're only available on the Yahoo Group
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/pz8/

In the Files section they're in the 'Other Rules' folder, but there are changes/options which I don't see there, and I can't remember where they appeared - if you get the rules, you'll see a diagram of the field of fire of cannons - the one-hex wide bits are now 3-hex wide, so it now goes 2-3-2-3- from the ship instead of 2-1-2-1- (you'll see what I mean). Also, single deckers can now move 5 hexes, but have only 4 hits.

[paulr]

Well, Paul at Tumbling Dice is certainly efficient

I ordered the ships last night my time and got an email about 9 hours later (mid afternoon UK time) that the ships were in the post  

Now I have to wait patiently for them to arrive

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Hope for a fair wind and a clam sea....

IanS 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[FierceKitty]

A chowder, I think it is.

[paulr]

Ships were waiting for me when I got to work today 

Pretty quick delivery given two weekends and a public holiday 

I've had a quick look at the ships and am very pleased with the genral look 
Will have a better look tonight and start working out how I will paint them

[paulr]

I sorted out the ships and preped 9 last night as well as cooking dinner and watching an ANZAC documentary

The ships have very little flash and only some have mould lines that need cleaning up

I'll prep some more tonight and make a start on painting over the weekend. Still thinking about how best to paint them