Here are mine so far!

https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2020/07/13000-italians-fleet-for-naval-thunder.html

Eight Navigatori class destroyers


Top view for stripes!


Do I get the other 4 so I own all 12? 


Collioni and Bende Nere Cruisers (Collioni was sunk before she could have he air recognition stripes done)


Lovely looking ships, pity they had very little armour


Menacing?

They look cracking, Will ! 

Cheers - Phil

Very nice Lemmey 

I'll try painting the deck stripes freehand when I get round to them.

My painting has been deferred by "real world" events for the past few days, hope to be able to get back to some next week, but we'll see.

Has anyone ever tried using wee brushes with very long bristles to paint lines/stripes ?

It's only something that's occured to me after I saw a bit of a TV show called "The repair shop", that Von was watching the other day.
The operative was using a brush like that to paint 'lines'......OK.....On something somewhat larger than a 10mm figure, but I'd imagine the principal would be the same.

She seemed to have MUCH more control doing the lines with a long bristle brush......because it holds (relatively) much more paint, and so she could do the lines much more smoothly.

Just a thought...Never tried it myself.....I'm not even sure that brushes like this, suitable for painting wee figures, even exist.

Cheers - Phil

I use Posca paint pens. Or a Sharpie.

Quote from: Techno on 21 July 2020, 06:45:50 AM
Has anyone ever tried using wee brushes with very long bristles to paint lines/stripes ?

It's only something that's occured to me after I saw a bit of a TV show called "The repair shop", that Von was watching the other day.
The operative was using a brush like that to paint 'lines'......OK.....On something somewhat larger than a 10mm figure, but I'd imagine the principal would be the same.

She seemed to have MUCH more control doing the lines with a long bristle brush......because it holds (relatively) much more paint, and so she could do the lines much more smoothly.

Just a thought...Never tried it myself.....I'm not even sure that brushes like this, suitable for painting wee figures, even exist.

Cheers - Phil

I remember seeing a episode on TV during the lockdown of "How do they do it" or some such like title about making Bentley's (the cars).

They had one employee who did ALL the pinstriping on the cars that they made by freehand using long bristle brushes that you discribe Techno. Looked like he had been there for a while so he must have had a fair bit of practice, and a very steady hand.....amazing skill to watch.     

It is, Peter.....And those 'artistes' make it look SO easy !!

Cheers - Phil

A few more Italian ships. I've tried to paint the paint scheme most prevelent, but cool camo always wins...

Light Cruisers Duca d'Aosta, Montecuccoli, Attendolo and Eugenia di Savoia






Fiume, Zara and Pola of the Zara Heay cruiser class






Bolzano, a modified Trento class




Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare

 

Very nice Lemmey 

I'm afraid my dockyard is a bit slower - still got to do the deck striping - before they are ready to hit the table.

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 16 July 2020, 12:13:45 PM

One of the best "what if" Naval settings is France Vs Italy in the Med (Assuming WW2 didn't break out).

Hmmm......French.....haven't got any of them yet......should I make another trip to Warehouse Stationary to send a fax to Navwar?  :-

I've switched to Davco...

Who do you source Davco from, couldn't find an actual Davco site

Try searching on "Skytrex" Paul. The company kept them in house when Hammond went broke !

https://navymodelsandbooks.co.uk/product-category/davco-13000/

Those look the biz, Will ! 

Cheers - Phil