To my defence I was getting dangerously close to being almost halfway done with my main miniature project of painting up a 10mm great northern war battle, and after some inspiring chats with a good friend who's working at a naval museum, I've gone about getting some 1:3000th scale napoleonic warships  





Plan is to use them for GNW naval battles rather than Napoleonic, possibly the battle of Köge bay 1710, which is a battle directly connected to the battle of Helsingborg...

That's nice. I did Napoleonics in 1:2400 and was not satisfied.

Perhaps 1:3000 would be better.

Off track maybe but your stuff still looks great .

They really are superb

Excellent! In wargaming there is no such thing as "off track".

Good stuff but I wouldn't want to try rigging them

Forged in Battle models?

     

What rules are you looking to use?

Those are fabulous

Those look ace! Good stuff.

No doubt FK will be along shortly to ask me why I haven't finished my 1/4800 scale Napoleonic ships

Quote from: Ithoriel on 11 September 2022, 09:33:26 AMThose look ace! Good stuff.

No doubt FK will be along shortly to ask me why I haven't finished my 1/4800 scale Napoleonic ships

Now, now, You're the only man I've ever bought jewelry for. Do you think I'd be nasty to you?

Fair point, FK, fair point

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 September 2022, 07:14:34 AMGood stuff but I wouldn't want to try rigging them

Yeah that was one of the reasons I went for 1/3000, rigging looks like chore...

Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 September 2022, 08:39:19 AMForged in Battle models?

Indeed! Very happy with the quality of the casts

Quote from: paulr on 11 September 2022, 12:45:57 AM     

What rules are you looking to use?

Uhm I'm not sure actually. I'm thinking League of Augsburg's coming Mad for War ruleset looks pretty good, but we'll see. I don't really know what rules are popular for late 17th/early 18th century naval wargaming....

Ooh, those look great!

Isn't it traditional when first starting out in Age of Sail wargaming to get a British frigate and an aging Spanish 50-gun ship of the line and refight HMS Lydia vs. the Natividad?

I'm certainly tempted (again) . . .

Quote from: Raider4 on 19 September 2022, 12:37:32 PMOoh, those look great!

Isn't it traditional when first starting out in Age of Sail wargaming to get a British frigate and an aging Spanish 50-gun ship of the line and refight HMS Lydia vs. the Natividad?

I'm certainly tempted (again) . . .

Haha, I honestly know very little about that, we have a lot of interesting naval history here in Scandinavia to play around with

Some more Swedish ship-o-the-lines, a two-decker and a three-decker: