Not that I'm definitely going to fall into buying 1:3000 Eastern Med 1940 naval forces ... but hypothetically ... assuming the I was ... any recommendations?
Navwar definitely, the Davco range currently off stream, but should be available again soon. Mick Yarrow looks interesting. Seems to be a defintely lack of suitable aircraft ... but how much detail do you get in a 1:3000 aircraft?
However, a board on another place suggested to eshew 1:3000 and dive into 1:4800. Any experience you would care to share, Gemtlemen?
As always, you finer thoughts appreciated, your baser thoughts expected.
I'd go with 1/3000, or possibly 1/2400. 1/4800 are too small. Aircraft - two possibilities 1/1200 from MM, rather expensive and small, or 1/600th from TD or OO, my chosen option. Davco are still available, and Navwar have a very primitive ordering system. Mick Yarrow is good for the small stuff- including S Boats and MTB.
IanS
Definitely recommend 1/3000 stuff fsn.....I cut my naval gaming teeth with 1/4800 Leicester Micromodels ships in the 1970's (still have them all too :)) but they are small and 1/6000 is well, tiny.
I might be biased but the Navwar 1/3000 stuff is generally very nice with a good level of detail without too much and very affordable at around 1.25 per capital ship.
People bemoan the "old fashioned" ordering model that Navwar use - send them a fax :o !!! However between us Paul and I have ordered from Navwar at least 3 times from NZ without any issues and the owner (Dave??) is very good to deal with. Orders are processed quickly and we have got exactly what we ordered every time....even got a couple of bonus Brazilian battleships due to the size of our last order ;)
Can't comment on MY ships as I have not seen them in the flesh but he does appear to make a good range of the smaller and more obscure ships used by the British and Italians so worth a look.
For aircraft I choose to use my own cardboard counters rather than 1/3000 aircraft models as they are very small. Purhaps use larger scale aircraft (1/1200 as IanS suggests?) if you want to use models.
If you want to do early war Eastern Med and want a good range of ships Navwar do a Battle of Matapan battle pack for around 25 quid which might be a good starting point...you can always get more later!
Be very interested to see how your project progresses....assuming you do decide to go ahead of course.
Thanks, chaps.
I do have rather a lot of 1:600 aircraft - would it be too flamboyant to go for some 1:1200 as well? Hang on - roundels in 1:1200! I'll stick to the bigger ones and/or counters.
Will I go ahead? Probably. Unless something else shiny distracts me.
For me 1/3000 is the perfect balance between the need to tell what ship you are looking at and it not looking like the two crews are so close they could pick each other off with pistols, for WW1 and WW2.
Predreadnaughts back to the Armada period I'd go 1/2400 to make the most of the shorter ranges and smaller ships of the period.
Prior to that I'd use 1/1200.
If concentrating on coastal forces I'd go to 1/600.
I've had no problem dealing with Tony Anderson at Navwar. I created a spreadsheet which mimicked his paper order sheet, cut and paste info from his website so it can calculate what I owe for items and postage and send it off in the mail with a cheque. Technophobes could cut out the spreadsheet bit and fill out the paper version! The 1/3000 aircraft are dinky but identifiable (IMHO) and individual, unbased models so my plan is eventually to make flying stands with 3 or 4 models per stand.
Only ordered from Mick Yarrow once, 15mm stuff at that, items arrived promptly and well packed, what more can you ask.
Thank you.
I've got some of the coastal forces in 1:600 :-[ I just fancied something bigger. :-[
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2017, 12:30:02 PM
For me 1/3000 is the perfect balance between the need to tell what ship you are looking at and it not looking like the two crews are so close they could pick each other off with pistols, for WW1 and WW2.
This nicely sums up why I went with 1/3,000 for 'late pre-Dreadnought', WWI and WWII