Whilst I was looking around for other sources of ships for Cruel Seas I found this little lot for a tenner, old Matchbox Sea Kings.
More pictures and my first ideas on the blog https://grahamsgaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/old-toys-for-new-toys.html
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Those are just waiting to go down the slipway.
Unscaled but useful stuff
Quote from: sunjester on 14 April 2019, 09:30:15 AM
Whilst I was looking around for other sources of ships for Cruel Seas I found this little lot for a tenner, old Matchbox Sea Kings.
More pictures and my first ideas on the blog https://grahamsgaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/old-toys-for-new-toys.html
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7848/46689367295_73f8d2ea5e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2e8Mdgi)
(https://flic.kr/p/2e8Mdgi)
With the grey undercoat they look much better. I use 1/600 guns and fittings from Airfix spairs box to blodge such models up to scale.. Tumbling dice also do a range of guns that can be used, and Andy Kirk will sell bits ad bobs from H& R range.
I've started putting paint on the Convoy Escorts, before I start adding detail and dirtying the boats up, do people think brown decks or dark grey?
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I plan on using these various toys as generic ships, whenever I want a larger warship in a game, but the Escort seems to have a reasonable profile for one of the bigger German torpedo boats like the Type 24 series.
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Dark grey would be best...most decks in the RN had a form of non-slip lino on them, and think most other navies did similar.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 21 April 2019, 06:49:04 AM
Dark grey would be best...most decks in the RN had a form of non-slip lino on them, and think most other navies did similar.
Yes the lino was a brown colour, Its mentioned at some length on the "Thomos Hole" blog and as sunjester and I know Thomo is quite a naval buff.
Was that brown for all navies or just RN?