Cruel Seas in 1-600 Scale

[Sunray]

Four H&R Landing Craft Assault and two Landing Craft Mechanised, still needing their ID labels but otherwise done.


With speeds of 6 - 10 knots these are never going to outrun an E-Boat!!!   

Which is exactly what happened at Slapton Sands (28 April 1944).

Nice eye candy Mike.  Will you restrict gaming to narrow seas naval - or add a beach landing with 3mm tanks and infantry?

[Ithoriel]

I have enough 0ddzial Osmy stuff to do a Panzer or Panzergrenadier Brigade plus attachments and a similar sized British force, Sunray.

Currently waiting for BKC IV and it's army lists before deciding on basing so currently in the lead mountain.

Combined ops definitely planned.

[Techno]

Those look great, Mike !! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Which is exactly what happened at Slapton Sands (28 April 1944).

My late, dear departed next door neighbour was on the clear up for that. Fishing bodies out the sea for weeks he said. He also claimed one of the local pilots started 'helping themselves' to personal effects.
He wasn't seen again...

[Sunray]

I have enough 0ddzial Osmy stuff to do a Panzer or Panzergrenadier Brigade plus attachments and a similar sized British force, Sunray.

Currently waiting for BKC IV and it's army lists before deciding on basing so currently in the lead mountain.

Combined ops definitely planned.

Yeah, they are addictive !  What do you think makes purchase of 1/600 so compulsive ?
Will look forward to enjoying your paint work images as they appear Mike

Regards James 

[Ithoriel]

Yeah, they are addictive !  What do you think makes purchase of 1/600 so compulsive ?
Will look forward to enjoying your paint work images as they appear Mike

Regards James 

Thanks for that James and to all the others posting supportive messages!

For me the attraction was being able to fit an entire unit at 1:1 scale on a 40mm square base (40mm disc for command) at a price that would't break the bank.

[Sunray]

Thanks for that James and to all the others posting supportive messages!

For me the attraction was being able to fit an entire unit at 1:1 scale on a 40mm square base (40mm disc for command) at a price that would't break the bank.

Yes, 1/600 (3mm) would allow the satisfaction of 1:1 .  So for a 20th century basic infantry unit (a 10 man section) would your base still be 40 square ?

[Ithoriel]

A base would be a platoon. So roughly 30 men. Yes, I know, thirty men in that space in real life isn't a unit it's a target! However, certain liberties need to be taken :-)

30-ish infantry, 4 machine guns, 3 or 4 artillery pieces and tows, 3 or 4 tanks, up to half a dozen armoured cars.

Towns consist of 60mm square modules with the central 40mm removable to allow units to occupy the space. Farms are mounted the same way. So far just a few unpainted test pieces done.

[Sunray]

A base would be a platoon. So roughly 30 men. Yes, I know, thirty men in that space in real life isn't a unit it's a target! However, certain liberties need to be taken :-)

30-ish infantry, 4 machine guns, 3 or 4 artillery pieces and tows, 3 or 4 tanks, up to half a dozen armoured cars.

Towns consist of 60mm square modules with the central 40mm removable to allow units to occupy the space. Farms are mounted the same way. So far just a few unpainted test pieces done.

Thanks Mike - as I read this - and looking at the new OO early WW1 Germans, I am thinking a platoon base on 40mm square would be a sweet fit for the 1870s (FPW etc)
Indeed the late 19th Century before the Head Sheds finally got it that mass attacks with the bayonet did not survive a killing ground dominated by MGs and quick firing artillery.
The Peter Pig ACW range offers a few ships that are passible in the time zone, and Tumbling Dice do a few nice WW1 small craft.  Old Glory do massive Pre-dreadnaughts - too big for my table !   

Hmmm ...adaption of To the last gaiter button to 1/600... :-   I do like the colour of the FPW .  Ruritania  on the Black Sea perhaps ?

[Ithoriel]

H&R package arrived this morning.

One tanker, one collier, a Raum-boot, a large German AA trawler, HMS Aristocrat (an AA paddle-steamer) and a coastal lighthouse.

I may not need a bigger boat but I do need some bigger bases.

The trawler and paddle-steamer in particular are somewhat larger than I'd realised!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good thing Minibits work to order! 

[Sunray]

H&R package arrived this morning.

HMS Aristocrat

The trawler and paddle-steamer in particular are somewhat larger than I'd realised!

Its a really neat model! I have one painted in WW2 style dazzle as in the fashion of the Clyde steamers.  I am now minded to repaint in 1880s style as a steamer requisitioned for troop transport.

I hadn't really appreciated the revolution that occurred in naval ship design between the Battle of Lissa (1866- still very Napoleonic in tactics ) and the debut of Devastation (the first true battleship )in 1871.   If I pitch towards the end of the century, there are three advantages:
1. Able to tweak Dave Manley's CS rules.
2. a decent range of Old Glory TBs, destroyers, and transition warships
3. Compatible with OO's range of "early" WW1 figures.

Need to do more research on the ships depicted as Old Gory models. For example trhe Preussan - is that the battleship or an earlier ship of that name? :-

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Tumbling Dice have some amazing stuff in that period

[Ithoriel]

Tumbling Dice have some amazing stuff in that period

Don't remind me! I have a single Battleship from the range which remains unpainted but also remains a constant temptation to start yet another period!

[Sunray]

Don't remind me! I have a single Battleship from the range which remains unpainted but also remains a constant temptation to start yet another period!

Go on Mike. Be a trend setter- lead us as a flotilla into full blown 1/600 pre-dreadnaught naval warfare.

Are there good rules for this era of  wargame ?

[Ithoriel]

The pre-dreadnaught is 1/2400 scale but I'll pass on that ... for the moment

Meanwhile, since I'm waiting for some bases for the next tranche of ships, I thought it time to do some terrain.

So, I give you "Rocky Islet with Lighthouse."

Not exactly a masterpiece but serviceable for sure.

[paulr]

 

[FierceKitty]

The pre-dreadnaught is 1/2400 scale but I'll pass on that ... for the moment

Meanwhile, since I'm waiting for some bases for the next tranche of ships, I thought it time to do some terrain.

So, I give you "Rocky Islet with Lighthouse."

Not exactly a masterpiece but serviceable for sure.

Mmmmmm. A Wendy tower, is it?

[Ithoriel]

Mmmmmm. A Wendy tower, is it?

Unlike most of my nominally 1/600 terrain, which is nearer 1/1000, this is a proper Heroics and Ros 1/600 scale lighthouse.

[FierceKitty]

Looks good, whatever.