Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-05

[d_Guy]

As I live and breathe, the Repair Ship Kamchatka, the scourge of the seven seas! 

The entire project is lovely work.   

[fsn]

Good stuff!

[paulr]

Thanks all  

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How many will survive first contact.

That's hard to tell
The forces at the beginning of the war are more balanced than history would lead you to believe. There are a few simple steps the Russians could have taken to significantly improve their position. Most were advocated for at the time.

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There is a lot of variance in size of the cruisers, some seem as large as a battleship and others are way smaller. Is this simply because cruiser is a bit of a catch-all class?

Recent Armoured cruisers were expected to be able to extend the battle line so are quite large, some of the older ones are smaller Ironclads from the 1880s refitted with slightly newer guns. Protected cruisers tend to be smaller but some are quite long to improve speed (and allow for more machinery).

Japanese 3^rd Squadron to finish then this project will be done.

I finailsed the Russian Ship Damage Summaries (SDS) over the weekend and started looking at scenarios (at least a dozen historical ones).

[paulr]

Touched up base coat

Painted funnel tops, ships boats and other details    

Touched up base coat again  

Started finalising the Japanese Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)     

[paulr]

Painted bases

Washed ships

Continued finalising the Japanese Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)     
Torpedo Boat Destroyers and Torpedo Boats left to do

[Chris Pringle]

Do I remember right that the Russian ships coming from the Baltic should be filthy because they had to carry coal on their decks on account of there being no coaling stations between there and Port Arthur?

[steve_holmes_11]

Do I remember right that the Russian ships coming from the Baltic should be filthy because they had to carry coal on their decks on account of there being no coaling stations between there and Port Arthur?

There was a re-coaling arrangement with German Colliers, so some replenishment was possible.

But yes, all ships took on coal above their bunker capacity, stacking it on decks, in storerooms and even in corridors.

There were deaths form respiratory illness.
I've seen sources describing the situation as causing "primitive fuel-air bombs".

Not a good combination with Japan's high capacity and hot-burning shells.

[paulr]

Helpfully the ships were painted black, with yellow ochre funnels, so only the decks looked grubby

Glued magnetic vinyl to bases

[paulr]

Labeled bases

Continuing to finalising the Japanese Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)     

The weapons layouts on the Torpedo Boat Destroyers and Torpedo Boats are 'interesting' to say the least    

I managed to discover this very useful site combrig-models.com with images such as these which show where the various weapons are and can fire

[pierre the shy]

Bookmarked that site thanks 

[fsn]

Get thee behind me!

[pierre the shy]

Saw another update about Navwar today - evidently they are now running through existing stock as Tony is still not able to use his casting machinery 

So if you do need anything from him now is hour apparently, and be sure to advise alternatives as stuff is going fast:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=574459

Yes, the link goes to a thread about "the other Partisan show 2023", but if you scroll past that you will see the Navwar update......don't ask me why it was posted there...welcome to TMP! 

Paul R - I have a cunning plan to source a few more 1/3000 goodies - only if required of course 

[paulr]

Painted integral bases on the torpedo boats

Sorted ships on to bases ready for basing

Continuing to finalise Ship Damage Summaries (SDS), making slow but steady progress

Up to 9^th Torpedo Boat Division of 21

[paulr]

Ships based

Now I've got no excuse to not continue finalising Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)

[paulr]

Finalised the Japanese Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)

Now I just need to check the Russians 

[paulr]

Made a good start on checking the Russian Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)

Painted the wakes and waves on the latest Japanese battleships and cruisers

Smaller vessels still to do

[paulr]

Finally got a chance today to tidy up the sea around the cast bases of the torpedo boats

For some reason they hadn't blended in as well as the other batches

Fortunately the new batch of basing mix matched the old batch pretty closely

Wakes and waves for the smaller vessels will get done tomorrow when the basing mix is fully dry

[paulr]

Wakes and waves done on smaller Japanese vessels

Pictures of the last batch

Japanese 3^rd Squadron

Ironclad, Armoured & Protected cruisers



Protected & Unprotected cruisers, Gunboats



2^nd & 3^rd class torpedo boats

[paulr]

And that is the last of the ships for this project painted

	Russians	Japanese
Battleships & Cruisers	41	36
Smaller vessels	20	46
Total	61	82

[paulr]

Next on this project will be, in no particular order:

• Finalising the Ship Damage Summaries (SDS)
• Working on the dozen or so historic scenarios
• Building Port Arthur - at the ground scale used it will be an approximately 3', 4', 5' triangle in the north west corner of the table
• Developing a campaign - including some better pre-war decisions by the Russians