All,
I'm helping my buddy Sunray out with posting some photos of some 6mm Naval minis he's been working on. Pretty cool, a lot of it is scratch built. From him:
"I know you appreciate adventures in 6mm, and I am modelling a river fleet in 6mm - a sort of spin off to the recent Cruel Seas craze. Four of the models featured below have Irregular DNA.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lXWpYTG7RYc/XVShuRXTbxI/AAAAAAAAroU/M-MvroKXKU4rrF5v7oteIU96_67BSv-ZgCLcBGAs/s1600/Sunray%2B1.jpg)
From the front:
1. WWTM3 "D" class ferry converted to MZ Motozattera ferry (£28 from Warlord)
2. GWV31 Gunboat - major rebuild of superstructure and additional guns
3. An Airfix 25mm Bailey Bridge float, cut down and married to bits from BO5, with additional guns from Cruel Sea - the weapons are mounted on tack heads, so I can re-equip as a Khartoum era Melik style vessel,
4. BO4 - converted to a 1930s era car ferry- based on HO scale Sea Port Model Works model.
5. The two works in progress in the background are a steam gun boat and an Arab Dhow - both being converted down to 6mm in scale
Enjoy the eye candy.
Best wishes,
Sunray
PS - I have a number of 10mm ships on the slips including.........an Aircraft Carrier!"
V/R,
Jack
I did enjoy the eye candy :).
Same here !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: bigjackmac on 15 August 2019, 12:13:15 AM
PS - I have a number of 10mm ships on the slips including.........an Aircraft Carrier!"
Bloody Hell!! Let's hope it's HMS Audacity (although even that one is ~450 feet long . . .)
Nice, I enjoy the individual character of each ship.
Thanks forum - and to Jack for his encouragement and posting these images. :)
Scratch building is fun, and with the Cruel Seas weapons packs now available, you have the fiddle bits. There are other 1/300 bits and bobs on the market such as ship's wheels etc, and you get cheap second hand plastics in charity shops.
Yes, a couple of 10mm projects in the slips. I do have an aircraft carrier - its based on a plastic toy hull with new Island superstructure - early post WW2. 36 inch deck so it is stunted, but representative of an off shore operational carrier. As a compliment for Bush war intervention, I may well crew it with Pendraken Commandos, Wessex airmobile, and piston Sea Fury type ground attack.
I have an escort corvette nearing completion based on an old Pendraken Flower class. New bridge and guns.
A squadron of 1/144 MTBs and Gunboats also awaiting torpedoes and guns Some 10mm naval figures would be useful - just like Warlord do in 1/300 = (job for Techno).
Work at the yard has been stalled due to an industrial dispute. Memsahib wants conservatory repaired before winter.
Best wishes
James
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Haan Memsahib ;)
Very nice indeed. Love the gunboat/monitor. They always appeal to me in their ugliness!!!!
Terry
Those are superb! :-bd
#LIKE
They look very good. I recently bought a 6mm river gunboat for use in various 10mm scenarios (FPW battles around Paris sometimes featured them).
Quote from: Leman on 24 August 2019, 07:36:25 AM
They look very good. I recently bought a 6mm river gunboat for use in various 10mm scenarios (FPW battles around Paris sometimes featured them).
Now there is something I did not know! River gunboats used around Paris in the FPW.
They must have been insane/Seine. :)
Seriously - yes, look like barges fitted with old siege type artillery. Interesting. Would not be hard to knock one up in 10mm.
Lovely work
Amazon have an "enterprise" in 1/600th which might make a good hull donation. Building ships is fun !
ianS
Here's the result of a real life rebuild of MGB 81 that you might find interesting:
Not a lot of spare room on board....that big 3pdr up front takes up a lot of room.
That is brilliantly cool
Loverly boat