Italo-Turkish & First Balkan Naval Wars

[KTravlos]

I give you the joy of it sir!

[paulr]

I sorted the order last night and everything we wanted is there, including the special order of half a dozen ships out of a couple of battle packs

I also prepared the Greek navy last night, all 18 ships

This morning I added masts to the larger ships and prepared the Ottoman ships for the battle of Elli, 16 ships (including 4 extra destroyers so I'm doing whole classes)
The glue is drying on their added masts as I type

Once the glue is fully dry I'll trim the masts then undercoat all the ships

I also need to pop to my 'local' model shop and get some light Khaki once they are open

Unfortunately for Pierre the Shy this is not helping the progress on his ITLSU 1914 Third Echelon 
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,15515.msg226379.html#msg226379

[pierre the shy]

I sorted the order last night and everything we wanted is there, including the special order of half a dozen ships out of a couple of battle packs

I also prepared the Greek navy last night, all 18 ships

This morning I added masts to the larger ships and prepared the Ottoman ships for the battle of Elli, 16 ships (including 4 extra destroyers so I'm doing whole classes)

34 ships on the go already!?! blimey they only arrived yesterday .....at that rate you should be able to get back to the PM WW1 stuff within a couple of weeks....tops  

FWIW I made plenty of progress on the WW1 ITLSU stuff I have to do, just need to print and glue on the labels for the British stuff now and then onto last of the German stuff I have to do (until Paul does the latest batch).

Picking up my share of the ships tonight, so between us we should be busy painting ships for quite a while.

[d_Guy]

(Head lowered into hands - slowly shaking it from side to side) - I can't keep up! - the quantity of the output - the quality of the results - and I'm retired! -and jealous - did I mention jealous? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Know how you feel

[Ithoriel]

Know how you feel

What!? You're as bad! You paint more in an evening than I do in a year!

[pierre the shy]

Know how you feel

Picked up my ships off Paul last night. He was just finishing the Greek ships off!

FWIW DGuy and Ithoriel I don't know how he paints up things so fast either but the results are always amazing   

[paulr]

What!? You're as bad! You paint more in an evening than I do in a year!

To be fair I did the Greeks in a day as well as mowing the lawns and a trip to my not so local model store (21km)
We continued our Napoleonic game yesterday evening

Unfortunately my local model/stationery shop closed before Xmas

I also base coated the Ottomans

I washed the Greeks and finished painting the Ottomans this morning, touch ups left to do
Not bad before breakfast

[d_Guy]

When you say you "washed the Greeks" I assume here you mean the entire country. 

[paulr]

 

Only my 18 ships I'm afraid

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 
I quit!

[Orcs]

(Head lowered into hands - slowly shaking it from side to side) - I can't keep up! - the quantity of the output - the quality of the results - and I'm retired! -and jealous - did I mention jealous?  

I know what you mean , you just want to put out their eyes with a red hot Iron and cut off their thumbs just to be on the safe side. - All in the nicest possible way of course.

I have some 6mm Irregular fantasy painted by a friend. The Riders of Rohan cavalry have white horses painted on their lance pennants.  He used to paint an Irregular army pack to this standard in three evenings !!!!!!!!

I try to console myself by thinking that they must all have small penises, ugly partners and  poisonous warts on the ends of their noses etc.  But I am sure that's not true  , well the bit about the ugly partners anyway. 

[paulr]

Did the touch ups on the Ottomans

Cut and prepared 30 bases, first side painted blue
Cut out magnetic vinyl for the bases

Prepared Ottoman Ironclads, Torpedo Cruisers, Torpedo Gunboat and a couple of Torpedo boats - 8 ships
Prepared the Bulgarian navy - 1 Torpedo Gunboat and 6 Torpedo boats

About to add masts to the larger vessels - not sure yet if that includes the Torpedo Cruisers and Torpedo Gunboats, I need to look at some pictures

[paulr]

Added more wash to the tripod masts of the Georgios Averof
Touched up a few Greek ships where the wash had overflowed
Highlighted the tripod masts on the Georgios Averof

Painted the second side of all the bases and first edge of most of them

Added masts to Bulgarian torpedo gunboat; Ottoman torpedo cruisers, torpedo gunboat and one ironclad
The other two Ottoman ironclads have masts moulded on

[paulr]

Work has slowed progress

Finished painting all the bases, magnetic vinyl glued on and bases labelled

Next batch of ships undercoated

[paulr]

Work and Valentine's Day have continued to slow progress 

The first batch of ships are now based

A third batch of ships; Bulgarians, the rest of the Ottomans and the first of the Italians, has caught up with the second batch
They have been prepared, had masts added and been undercoated

I now have 7 Bulgarian, 29 Ottoman and 16 Italian ships waiting for their base coat

[paulr]

Wakes and waves dry brushed on first batch
Waiting for day to warm up enough to varnish them

Second & third batches base coated

Bases for second & third batches cut out

[paulr]

The weather was kind for most of the day and I got the first batch varnished 

Bases for the second & third batch sanded and washed

Second & third batches detailed and touch ups done

I really seem to be on a roll with these ships

Later in the day it clouded over and there wasn't enough light for pictures 
Forecast not looking good for photography for the weekend 

[KTravlos]

good going!

[sunjester]

PICTURES!!!!! .......................please.