In need of a small Great-War era destroyer for a forthcoming game, I decided to build one in 'cartoon' scale from bits and pieces.
The hull and most of the superstructure were carved from balsa. The funnel and torpedo tubes are plastic tube, turret and TT mounts pdf bases. I'm particularly pleased with the bridge - part of a mounting from a roller blind which 'looked useful' and ended up in the spares box some years ago.
The turrets are resin castings I bought a few years ago - again, they 'looked useful...' The crew figures are from a Strelets 1/72 set of Crimean War Russian naval gunners. Finished in overall black, here is it wearing the first of no doubt many flags of convenience! It's combat debut will be later this month in a game set in 1939.
9 comments:
I like this Tim, great job!.
Hi Tim. Scratch building a ship is a post very likely to catch my attention, lol. Have just completed a transport ship for my 54mm c.1900 toy soldiers...... absolutely out of scale. I'm planning a matchstick firing game involving ten warships, and four transporters, USA versus the British Empire. I do like the guns on your model, very nice! Regards.
Michael (Wargaming with.....)
Most kind!
Your own boat models have been very inspirational!
Well, Tim. For the record, your Fort Fisher games/photos, quite a few years back, played a KEY role in my efforts to make some retro gunboats, to serve with 54mm toy soldiers. And I was also impressed with the 'Nordic but Nice' game in 2013. You see, I keep files on others, lol.
Michael
The ship looks splendid and it has a crew!
Tim,
Another excellent model ship to add to your fleet. I think that the gun turrets were a great buy and look very similar to the single-gun mounts used by the Germans.
All the best,
Bob
Tim -
What a fine looking destroyer/ gunboat/ torpedo boat! I'm already looking forward to seeing it in action.
I like the number, too (I notice things like that). 196 is a square number (14x14) as are 169 (13x13) and 961 (31x31). When I want to number my vessels or vehicles I usually make a selection based on that sort of thing. My 5 Soviet KV85s have been given cubes, starting with 64...
Cheers,
Ion
This has come out splendidly!
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