Italo-Turkish & First Balkan Naval Wars

[pierre the shy]

Base coated the next two batches; more Italians and the first of the Australian-Hungarians
I'm pleased with the look of the green I've used for the Austrian-Hungarians

Can you enlighten us about the Australian-Hungarian navy you are building Paul - even I've not heard of them  

FWIW I painted the Russian Vladivostock Cruiser Squadron last night - Valejo Olive Drab is the recommended shade according to WTJ.

[paulr]

Bloody autocorrect 

[paulr]

No progress on the Austro-Hungarians last night

But I did get the bases for the small torpedo boats painted

[paulr]

Very limited progress again last night

But I have painted the decks of the Austro-Hungarians so far this morning

[paulr]

Reasonable progress today

The current batch of Austro-Hungarians and Italians are now painted
They just need touch ups
The deck colours look to have worked for the Austro-Hungarians 

Painted the waves and wakes on the last batch

Cut out the bases for this batch and those I missed last batch

[fsn]

How do you paint your ships?

Hull then decks, decks then hull?

Just asking, if I ever want to ...

[Ithoriel]

Usually hull first for me, basically there's more hull than deck so less effort involved in adding the colour neatly.

[Westmarcher]

How do you paint your ships?

Hull then decks, decks then hull?

Just asking, if I ever want to ...

That's easy. For me it's hull then decks ..... then hull then decks .... then  hull .... then decks    ... then the fr*gg*n hull .....   

[d_Guy]

 

[paulr]

Hulls then decks

I usually use two similar but different deck colours for different ships of each navy to add a bit of variety, e.g. Austro-Hungarians Tan Yellow or Iraqi Sand

Then funnel tops, boats, boat covers, boot topping (these little details really lift the ships)

Then touch ups as Westmarcher suggests

Finally a black wash to bring out the details and hide some of the touch ups I've missed

[paulr]

Touched up the current batch
I should get the wash done this evening once the touch ups are fully dry

Varnished the last batch, the last of them still drying
Partly cloudy so light a bit low and variable for photography

Painted both sides of the bases for this batch
On to the edges which are a bit more time consuming as I have to work in smaller batches

[paulr]

Ships washed

First batch of base edges done

[paulr]

Edges done on the penultimate batch of bases

Magnetic vinyl glued to the first 34 bases

[paulr]

I also got to take some pictures yesterday evening

The last two Greek destroyers and the Bulgarian navy


Ottoman Torpedo Cruisers, Torpedo Gunboat and Torpedo boats


Ottoman Gunboats


The first of the Italians; Armoured Cruisers, Protected Cruiser and Destroyers


A couple of close ups of the Italians

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil.

[d_Guy]

Brilliant!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb. what do the numbers refer to?

[paulr]

The numbers are the Defence factor in General Quarters I/II, for pre-Dreadnoughts 1 per 500 tons displacement

When firing you roll 3 dice; a D10 to see if you straddle and two D6 one for hull and the other for armament damage
You compare the Attack factor to the Defence factor to get a ratio and use that and the D6 result to look up a combat result table to give how much damage is done

The two letter code is the armour class (for pre-Dreadnoughts BB, AC, PC) or ship type for non-armoured ships

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks

[KTravlos]

pretty good work!