I Painted Things!

What Ho!

As promised in my last post I have gone away, given my little boats a lick of paint and taken photographs of them for you all to.....judge mercilessly.

As requested, I have added a picture for scaling perposes. 

Here we go....

The USS New Ironsides

The USS/CSS Stonewall

The BAP Manco Capac and Atahuallpa

 

The domestically built BAP Victoria

A Picture of Peru's force of ironclads....Im not sure why its here....it just is.  

And finally in this batch, a generic....well...it was supposed to be a Box Battery Frigate, but it just looks like a sort of boat shaped thing. I don’t know if I can really find a use for it. Perhaps an coal hulk?

Hope you enjoy them  and dont be shy telling me what you think

Marx

I made things!

I’ve been rather busy with work and other ‘real world’ nonsense recently, but have finally managed to find the time to do a little post.

I’ve been bashing on with my ill guided 1/2400^th scale naval project recently, and as well as painting up a bunch of models from Tumbling Dice (I’ll post up some picts at some point) I realised that I there were a fair few ships that I couldn’t actually buy models for. I thought to myself, ‘1/2400^th? That’s really diddilly. I recon I could do that.’ So I did.

First up, and for the Americans, the Ironclad Frigate USS New Ironsides

Fallowing her in-line, the Armoured Ram-Cruiser ‘USS/CSS Stonewall’

A little more random, a generic box-battery ship. Brazil had a few like this. I really don’t like the model though, and can’t see me using it much.

And now, proving that I am a little too obsessed with the Peruvian Navy, The Monitor BAP Manco Capac

BAP  Atahuallpa

And the delightful Peruvian built monitor/gunboat, BAP Victoria

And a group shot

What do you all think? I was generally chuffed with them to be honest. I’ll put up painted pictures of these and others soon.