Hitting the Beach!

[Martin1914]

Nope! We are all still in COVID lockdown. Our planned ITLSU game didn't get done at Xmas or then Easter. My WW1 Middle East Pendrakens should have hit the beach, but I'll be honest, I haven't painted all the British infantry yet! But I did complete the boaty stuff. I decided to downsize the naval items to reduce footprint in the game. I think the mixture of scales should still work. The freighter is from Magpie Designer with a bit of covnversion and the long boats are scratchbuilt from plastic card. The figures are from Baccus (I'm a little guilty I cut of their legs). If the lads are reading, I hope I haven't given the game away!

Keep well all.
Regards
Mart

[Martin1914]

More photos

[sunjester]

They look really great!

[Techno]

Splendid work, Mart. 

Cheers - Phil (Keep well, yourself !)

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff. Rather than surgery take a look on Warlords Cruel Seas site, might find sumat there

[Ithoriel]

Splendid!

The longboats are very clever.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are pretty amazing.

[Steve J]

Very nice .

[pierre the shy]

very nice Martin.....presume these are for a landing at Cape Helles/V and W beach scenario with the freighter being the River Clyde?

You don't have a template of the longboat avialable do you please? - he asks hopefully - always wanted to play the Cape Helles landing scenario but lack the boats.

Cheers
Peter

[paulr]

 

[bigjackmac]

Those are fantastic, Martin, great work!

V/R,
Jack

[Martin1914]

Thank you for your comments Gents. Will help with motivation to finish 2 bns of Brits. Tedium demon struck on the puttees.......then I did choose the WW1 era..Doh!

Pierre - Yes the V Beach scenario from the TFL Summer 2011 Special. Let me sort a photo for how I built my boats, and I'll post here.

Regards to all
Mart

[Martin1914]

Pierre
Hope this is useful. Boats built for 6mm Baccus figs.
These are the card templates I used. Each boat is made from 5 layers of 1.5mm plastic card. From bottom to top, layer 1 is cut from Template1. Layers 2 to 4  are again from Template1 but with a Template 2 hole cut from within. Layer 5  is again from both templates but only covering the forward third of the boat (See red line). This forms a sort of prow. I filed the rear edges to smooth down to Layer 4. The figures sit on plastic card made from Template 2 but it needs to be slightly smaller to enable easy removal of figures (TOP TIP - test this before you glue the figures on and paint/varnish are thicker than you'd think! ).
Regards
Mart

[Scorpio_Rocks]

Thanks Martin!

I can see a lot of use for this technique

[Noktu]

These look awesome! Your scratch built boats deserve a praise!