tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76270824506035634082024-03-18T22:51:22.985-07:00Col Campbell's ShipyardColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-41996942897349924682019-12-04T14:21:00.000-08:002019-12-04T14:21:23.178-08:00Colonial River Gunboats<br />
Things have been quiet on the naval front at Col Campbell's Barracks, but a post on the Miniatures Page about the construction of a river gunboat brought back my memories of building some myself.<br />
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Back in the 1990s, Wargames Foundry had plans for a river gunboat available on-line. I downloaded the plans and used them to construct two sternwheel boats, one for me and one for my buddy, Lord Sterling.<br />
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They turned out well and served us in our "Green Nile" campaign back in the early 2000s. Mine has seen action several times since then.<br />
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In addition, I built a screw gunboat to add to the riverine force's combat power. It was entirely "freehand" built.<br />
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The two smaller steam launches were made from some wooden rowboats purchased from Michael's and finished with homemade boilers.<br />
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<br />ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-7310287895399413572018-05-04T15:54:00.000-07:002018-05-04T15:56:46.676-07:00Saga of Painting WTJ Ships - Part 2Well it has been a while since I published <a href="http://colcampbell-shipyard.blogspot.com/2018/03/saga-of-painting-wtj-ships-part-1.html">Part 1</a> of this tale. I finally completed the three British battleships and mounted them on the "sea" bases that I use. You will notice that I used two different colors on the decks, a darker on the Canopus and Collingwood and a lighter on the Majestic. I'm not sure which one I'll use in the future for British ships. With the white superstructure, turrets, and guns, the lighter deck looks a little "washed out" even though it may be more accurate.<br />
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Please click on the photographs to get a larger image. Just don't "notice" the touch-ups that still need to be done.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HMS Canopus - port side view</td></tr>
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The ships have no masts and I'm not sure how or if I'll make any. And I still need to paint the wakes on the bases.<br />
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But for right now they are "battle" ready.<br />
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The two Russian battleships are still "under construction."<br />
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<br />ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-35393323178557941022018-05-04T14:17:00.000-07:002018-05-04T15:57:11.029-07:00New Acquisition - Ocean Battle MatI just received an "ocean" battle mat from Cigar Box Battle. It is, first off, very nicely done. Not as dark as I expected it to be, but still very nicely done.<br />
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Here are some pictures with my 1:2400 Panzerschiffe Japanese and Russian pre-dreadnought battleships as they approach each other in line of battle.<br />
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Cigar Box Battle on-line store: <a href="http://www.cigarboxbattle.com/">http://www.cigarboxbattle.com/</a></div>
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and the actual mat's page: <a href="http://cigarboxbattlestore.bigcartel.com/product/ocean-battle-mat-105">http://cigarboxbattlestore.bigcartel.com/product/ocean-battle-mat-105</a></div>
ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-78259308211478580992018-03-29T13:56:00.001-07:002018-05-04T15:57:28.579-07:00Saga of Painting WTJ Ships - Part 1Back in early March, after helping play test the soon to be published "Si Vis Pacem" rules (see previous post) and reading a lot about the new rapid prototyped plastic ships from <a href="http://www.wtj.com/store/index.html">War Times Journal</a>, I decided to obtain several of their 1:2400 scale ships as a test bed project. So I ordered two British predreadnoughts (<i>HMS Majestic</i> and <i>Canopus</i>) and two early Russian predreadnoughts (<i>Sissoi Veliki</i> and <i>Navarin</i>). As a bonus, Jim from WTJ sent two extra ships, HMS <i>Collingwood</i> (with "undercut" gun barrels) and a Thorneycroft 4-stack destroyer used by the Japanese.<br />
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They all arrived very well packed. At first I wasn't sure which ship was which (except for the destroyer, of course), but then I discovered the almost microscopic SKU on the bottom of each ship.<br />
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First let me say that they are delightfully intricate "sculpts" with a lot of detail including lifeboats, ventilators, and different decking heights, some undercut. Once cleaned, as recommended by WTJ, they turned a somewhat milky color but that was predicted by WTJ on their web site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here they are in their"naked" plastic. The two Russians (<i>Navarin</i>, top, and <i>Sissoi Veliki</i>, bottom) are on the left; the three British (<i>Collingwood</i>, <i>Canopus</i>, and <i>Majestic</i>, top to bottom) are in the center; and the Japanese Thorneycroft destroyer is on the right. Even this picture reveals the detail in the "sculpting."</td></tr>
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My undercoat of choice is gray gesso, which I used on these ships. Since gesso is really designed to give smooth surface with tooth to canvas painting surfaces, using it on such small models really reveals its "roughness" as you can see with these two pictures, especially the <i>Sissoi Veliki</i>. I think I'm going to have to get a finer grained undercoat, and probably uppercoat paints, if I proceed with this project.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>HMS Canopus</i> (left) and <i>Majestic</i> (right), with her hull already painted black.</td></tr>
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Over a period of several days (interrupted by various tasks, including a 3 1/2 year old granddaughter), I continued with the painting, resulting in this stage of progress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>HMS Majestic</i> fully painted with black hull, white upper works, ocher funnels, and holystoned deck. Between the lighting and my camera, she looks rather washed out. I'm going to attempt a light wash to bring out more of the detail.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>HMS Canopus</i> still requires ocher coloring on her funnels and a holystoned deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>HMS Collingwood</i> with only forepart painted white. I may paint the exposed gun barrels black for some contrast. You can also see more easily the "undercut" main gun barrels. The other four capitol ships have a "tab" under the barrels to prevent damage to them from handling. I can't really tell the difference unless I make a close examination.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Japanese Thorneycroft destroyer with only black hull painted. Picture is a little fuzzy as it is not easy focusing on such a small model only 28mm long.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian <i>Sissoi Veliki</i> with only black hull painted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of Panzerschiffe (above) and WTJ (below) ship models.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian <i>Navarin</i> with only black hull painted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of Panzerschiffe (above) and WTJ (below) ship models.</td></tr>
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As you can see from my beginning painting, I am initially going with peacetime colors, mainly black hulls, white upperworks and main gun turrets, and ocher stacks.<br />
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My concept for the use of these ships will be "imagi-nation" battles in the Mediterranean as the Franco-Norman world and the Russo-Byzantine world struggle for control of the Middle Sea. This is loosely based on a parallel time-line from H. Beam Piper's <i>Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen</i> novel and its follow-ons written by Roland Green and John F. Carr.<br />
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<br />ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-34006333294912672352018-03-03T14:53:00.001-08:002018-03-03T17:35:39.929-08:00Play Testing "Si Vis Pacem" WW1 Naval RulesIt has been a long time since I made a naval post here. Lately the Jackson Gamers have been assisting David Manley and Stuart Machin of Long Face Games in play testing their latest naval rules. They have developed "Si Vis Pacem" for quick play WW1 naval gaming, subtitling it "How you can play Jutland in a day."<br />
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Here is a report on our final play testing with a brief description of the action, some pictures, and a few comments about the rules.<br />
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We used Lord Sterling's 1:6000 scale WW1 ships, which are based on the "Jutland" board game counters. If you'll remember, we used them back in 2016 to do a re-enactment of Jutland, using Avalon Hill's "Jutland" rules.<br />
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Based
on the situation of 31 May 1916 (first day of Jutland), the British
battlecruiser squadrons, reinforced by the 5th Battle Squadron, are out hunting for Germans. And the Germans are there, but more
than VAdm Beatty was led to believe. VAdm Scheer and VAdm Hipper had
planned a surprise consolidating the 1st Scouting Group with the 3rd
Battle Squadron. The British had 4 super-dreadnoughts and 6
battlecruisers versus the Germans 8 super-dreadnoughts and 5
battlecruisers.</div>
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As the
opponents spotted each other at 26,000 yards, each force immediately
started closing. Soon large caliber shells were raining down on the
"steel castles." But the lighter British battlecruisers
were at a disadvantage, soon sustaining heavy damage to all and
having two blown apart. But the Germans didn't escape unscathed,
having several ships sustain heavy damage and several more medium
damage. The British battleships also sustained some damage to all
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Smoke
sighted on the horizon behind both fleets had the commanders looking
over their shoulders wondering if it was friends or more foes. The
three battle squadrons of the British Home Fleet were advancing in a
long line from the northeast while the British 3rd Battlecruiser, 1st
Cruiser, and 2nd Cruiser Squadrons were approaching from the
northeast. The lead British battleships (2nd Battle Squadron) soon
made their impact felt by firing on the German 6th Division/3rd
Battle Squadron, which included <i>SMS Friedrich der Grosse</i>,
Scheer's flagship. Knowing that his fleet was now outnumbered, Scheer
decided to call it a day. He had destroyed two British
battlecruisers and heavily damaged four more, plus damaged four
British battleships. He had averted the Kaiser's displeasure by not
loosing any ships, only having four battleships and one battlecruiser
damaged.</div>
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With the 1st Scouting Group in the
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The British Battle Cruiser Fleet with
1st Battlecruiser Squadron, 5th Battle Squadron, and
<i>HMS Lion</i> (fleet flag) and 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron advance towards the Germans. All of a sudden Beatty realized, "By
Neptune's beard, those are battleships!"</div>
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Later in the action the German 6th Battle Division
turns towards the approaching British battleships, the 5th Battle
Division and the battlecruisers try to get around the rear of their
British opponents. In the background, the British 1st Battlecruiser
Squadron has had one ship heavily damaged, leaving the line, while
the same has happened to <i>HMS Lion</i> (Beatty's flag ship) in the
foreground. In the far background the British Home Fleet sails
closer, with the lead, <i>HMS George V</i>, sustaining medium damage which
she returned in kind on the <i>SMS Friedrich der Grosse</i> (Scheer's flag ship).</div>
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Now a third British battlecruiser
sustains heavy damage and withdraws while the remaining three have
medium damage. The two lead British battleships of 5th Battle
Squadron (center) have sustained medium damage. Three German
battleships and one battle cruiser have suffered medium damage and
one battlecruiser has suffered light damage. The German 1st Battle
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With <i>HMS Lion</i> and the two
battlecruisers of 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron heavily damaged and
fleeing the area, the British battleships attempt to screen them from
fire from the German battleships. On the top, one of the 1st
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<i>HMS Queen Mary</i> blows up as the heavily damaged <i>HMS Princess
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Final shot of the battlefield when VAdm
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"Si Vis Pacem" is a quick playing rule set that is both simple and complex. It is easy to pick up on the rule basics and a player can function without too much guidance after the first round of firing. Who moves first or second is decided by the side with the initiative while firing is done sequentially with the player having initiative firing a unit of ships first, then the second player firing, then back to the first player. Torpedo attacks are done the same way after all gunfire which allows ships being attacked to fire at their attackers, potentially driving them away.</div>
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There are advanced rules and campaign rules we didn't try, just concentrating on the basics. The advanced rules add some additional flavor and complexity to the basics, but not enough to take away from the playability of the rules. Based on what I've read in David Manley's pre-dreadnought "Broadside and Salvo," the campaign rules will allow one to fight their own actions in the North Sea between the British Home Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet.</div>
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We are looking forward to the release of "Si Vis Pacem" later this spring and to more WW1 naval games in the future.</div>
<br />ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-40944913975930350142016-05-31T11:27:00.000-07:002016-05-31T11:29:10.284-07:00Jutland with a VengeanceYesterday (Memorial Day) some of the Jackson Gamers gathered to play a WW1 naval game in memory of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. I titled this post "Jutland with a Vengeance" as Jay, Lord Sterling, our game master, used almost all of his 1:6000 scale ships, including quite a few that were not actually at Jutland, such as the <i>SMS Goeben</i> which was in Turkish livery and <i>HMS Queen Elizabeth</i> which was in drydock. But we had a lively time nevertheless.<br />
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There were 7 players, 4 British and 3 German. I had the task of commanding the German fast scouting group - 7 battlecruisers, 1 armored cruiser (<i>SMS Blucher</i>), 2 light cruiser squadrons, and 4 half-flotillas of destroyers - as Vice Admiral Hipper. The other two German players (Travis and Ed) split the four battleship squadrons and the other light forces. I'm not sure how many British squadrons there were, but there were quite a few! My son Sean commanded the main British battlecruiser squadron as Vice Admiral Beatty so we were bound to "cross swords" and we did. The other British commanders were Jay, Phil, and Grant (a new addition to our ranks).<br />
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We used a slightly modified version of Avalon Hill's venerable "Battle of Jutland" rules. Jay, Lord Sterling has, where available, glued a 1:6000 scale model of each ship to its appropriate counter.<br />
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So without further ado, here is Admiral Hipper's report:<br />
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"To Vice-Admiral Scheer, commanding High Sea Fleet:<br />
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Pursuant to your orders, the reinforces fast scouting group discovered advance elements of the British fleet as 10,000 yard range due to thick mist. We engaged the British ships, sinking one and forcing the others to flee.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lead ships of the German battlecruiser squadron - <i>SMS Lutzow</i>, <i>SMS Hindenburg</i> (did I not mention some ships were present that never made it to Jutland?), and <i>SMS Seydlitz</i>, plus some of the destroyer half-flotillas.</td></tr>
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Shortly afterwards, the British battlecruisers were sighted, steaming towards my command. After some minutes maneuvering to bring my guns into their most efficient aspect, I began firing at the British.</div>
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After several ranging volleys, I concentrated my fire on two of the British battlecruisers, resulting in stupendous explosions as their magazines blew up. So much for the vaunted British battlecruisers!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opening moves. The German battlecruisers and two battleship squadrons
are in the center on the dark colored bases. The German light ships
(light cruisers and destroyers) have a black bar on the stern of their
bases. The rest of the ships are British.</td></tr>
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The British did score some hits on my ships, most notable reducing the speed of the <i>SMS Goeben</i> resulting in her leaving the battleline to begin her return to Jade.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the left, Jim's German destroyers launch ineffective torpedo attacks
at the British battlecruisers, forcing three to turn away. The pinkish
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The same turn taken from the other German flank as Jay's British destroyers
launch attacks against Ed's German battleships, forcing several of them to
turn away. Travis' German battleship squadron is in the left center and
Jim's German battlecruisers are beyond him.</td></tr>
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As more and more British battle squadrons appeared through the lifting mist, our squadrons maneuvered to get the most effective angles on the British ships. The British fast <i>Queen Elizabeth</i> battleships were the most dangerous, but lucky hits forced one away with severe boiler damage and a second stopped dead in the water due to steering problems, as well as reducing the gunnery on several others.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The action in the center gets confused as Travis' German battleships and
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With the British forces seemingly everywhere, Vice Admiral Scheer decided that it was time to return to our bases as we had inflicted a large number of losses on the Grand Fleet. But before we departed to home ...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you say, "Crossing the T?" as Jim's German battlecruisers (dark
bases on right) cross Sean's British battlecruiser line. The resulting
gunfire from the Germans sank the lead British battlecruiser. Two of
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My four remaining battlecruisers were successful in crossing the T of the British battlecruisers, sending the lead one (<i>HMS Tiger</i>, I believe) to the bottom in another stupendous explosion."</div>
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All told the British lost six battlecruisers (three from Beatty's squadron and three from the main fleet), several older battleships, and several armored cruisers, plus suffered severe damage on at least four other more modern battleships. The High Seas Fleet only lost one capitol ship, the <i>SMS Von der Tann</i>, which was overwhelmed by many salvos from the British battleships. Two or three other capitol ships (<i>SMS Hindenburg</i>, <i>SMS Helgoland</i>, and one other) suffered severe damage and will be under repair for a number on months.</div>
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Jay, Lord Sterling, proclaimed a victory for the German High Seas fleet.</div>
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But more importantly, all of us had a great time and a great game!!</div>
ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-60477208934178729362014-07-04T14:44:00.000-07:002014-07-04T14:44:51.353-07:00WW2 Coastal WarfareIt has been a long time since I really did anything "naval" enough to post here. But my good friend and long-time war gaming buddy Jay and I have finally made the plunge into WW2 coastal warfare. He and I have been dodging around this genre for a long time. Jay got it started last year by getting some 1:700 scale plastic motor torpedo boats. He added a box of various small ships and I followed with another box on MTBs. Our first game is tomorrow.<br />
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So here we go into my endeavors:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Skywave 1:700 scale Motor Torpedo Boats kit. It contains four each of the three types of boats listed on the cover - American PT boats, German "S" boats (or "E" boats), and British Vospers MTBs. There is a plethora of teeny tiny parts that I had to use tweezers to install. Even then some of them got away from me so a couple of my boats are missing vents or flag staves. Shown propped against the box are two of the American PT boats with their various parts and a inch scale ruler.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two of my four German boats in their white-grey paint job. The Germans found that this was the best paint scheme to make the boats essentially disappear at night in the North Sea. The boats are mounted on 60mm x 20mm bases, to give you an idea of their small size.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And two of my British Vospers, the closer up-gunned into a facsimile of a motor gunboat and the further in its basic motor torpedo boat guise. I have two of each type. The British used a slightly darker grey so I used the medium grey of the German's decks on the British hulls and a darker grey on the British decks. These are mounted on 40mm x 20mm bases.</td></tr>
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I'm not sure what rules we'll be using as Jay has the penchant for devising his own using bits and pieces from other sets. But whatever the rules are, I'm sure we'll have fun if only in trying to keep from running into each other!</div>
ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-62960125062171104522011-04-15T10:06:00.000-07:002011-04-15T10:06:19.393-07:00Classic Compass RoseLast December, Litko was offering free items with orders of selected bases and markers during their "Twelve Days of Christmas" event. As I needed some more bases for my 18th Century figures, I took advantage of their offer and received a free Classic Compass Rose [<a href="http://www.litkoaero.com/products/Classic-Naval-Compass.html">catalog link</a>]:<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">It has an engraved large wooden base in which a smaller wooden base with a smokey plastic ship is mounted. It can be used as it comes, but I wanted to give it a little pizzazz. So I tried my hand at some painting embellishments:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1My_bNkmzDuBFvxllcbqwcCMg1mR0htgRVwaUF0JmuPiNCVyHCqFWS76nY2xlIxQmDRiIElZ-ywyPxm6LlXEjgX1-w8ZuEwaRMo0fPAqan4MCV7zbyf6b2OrrPzRtN42Oac5ETNMUopw/s1600/Litko_Compass_Rose_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1My_bNkmzDuBFvxllcbqwcCMg1mR0htgRVwaUF0JmuPiNCVyHCqFWS76nY2xlIxQmDRiIElZ-ywyPxm6LlXEjgX1-w8ZuEwaRMo0fPAqan4MCV7zbyf6b2OrrPzRtN42Oac5ETNMUopw/s320/Litko_Compass_Rose_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">I carefully painted the outer circular base with "Ocean Reef Blue" from Delta Ceramcoat line and highlighted the two engraved heads and the points of the inner ring with yellow ocher and flesh. The inner circle base was painted with the blue and ocher yellow. The ship was first undercoated with gray matte medium and then painted with a charcoal hull, gray-white sails, and black masts. The water was painted dark blue with white caps on the waves.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg51urxqGMBz4dOYigLReT-44Mw_a5jVBNZ1KYBatm6SaxLIOfG6YNLM2Lssnuu0ldocX0MULg2Eqd4VPMu-RcSsX2LRmBdufyjna7mvjdKz_2LsymqIx-cmhO0y-tPP8G52_oM_TrIE/s1600/Litko_Compass_Rose_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbg51urxqGMBz4dOYigLReT-44Mw_a5jVBNZ1KYBatm6SaxLIOfG6YNLM2Lssnuu0ldocX0MULg2Eqd4VPMu-RcSsX2LRmBdufyjna7mvjdKz_2LsymqIx-cmhO0y-tPP8G52_oM_TrIE/s320/Litko_Compass_Rose_02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Overall, I think it looks very good and will (hopefully) soon see use in a sailing naval game.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-54999817099236970442010-12-07T14:53:00.000-08:002010-12-07T14:53:24.632-08:00Splash MarkersAt our first 1:2400 pre-dreadnought game (<a href="http://jacksongamers.blogspot.com/2010/11/battle-of-yellow-sea.html">Battle of the Yellow Sea</a>), it was quickly apparent that I needed some way of marking which ship was firing at which other ship. In our WW2 1:1200 naval games, Lord Sterling used two different sized golf tees, suitably painted and marked, as indicators. But golf tees would be much too big for the 1:2400 ships I use. Not having a plethora of funds to order the very nice shall splashes from <a href="http://www.litkoaero.com/page/LAI/CTGY/TS_NAVAL">Litko</a>, I decided to make my own. As I was constrained by time, both the immediacy of the next game and the fact that I'm having to take care of my dear wife, who broke her left leg on Veterans' Day and can't put any weight on it, I went for the easiest solution -- two different sized of flat-headed wood screws glued to some blank board game counters and suitably painted. I numbered each marker, pairing one large and one small for those ships (battleships, armored cruisers, and a few protected cruisers) who had both main battery and secondary battery guns, resulting in 48 pairs and another 30+ singletons for the smaller gunned cruisers. They worked very well. You can see them in action in our fictional <a href="http://jacksongamers.blogspot.com/2010/12/battle-of-sea-of-japan.html">Battle of the Sea of Japan</a> game.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJVfkpFUMlb0hVkvd55GpgiQzcBdOb0CETctnAMqp406QceMHeXm83uf4BIowC6h1kTpBRBFjKlDhyphenhyphenMdpwLa7glRBrxnz3vz7Yr-tJizNAHzvHL4BBc9016r3tZrz5b0_YnpfPiCrVsk/s1600/Shell_Splashes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJVfkpFUMlb0hVkvd55GpgiQzcBdOb0CETctnAMqp406QceMHeXm83uf4BIowC6h1kTpBRBFjKlDhyphenhyphenMdpwLa7glRBrxnz3vz7Yr-tJizNAHzvHL4BBc9016r3tZrz5b0_YnpfPiCrVsk/s320/Shell_Splashes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here, the main and secondary batteries from a Russian armored cruiser target a Japanese battleship.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">One caution - please dull the points of the screws. I didn't and several of us, me included, stabbed ourselves during the game!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Later on I plan on adding some sort of filler to the screws to make them look more like water splashes.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-74223529719716799282010-11-11T08:26:00.000-08:002010-11-11T08:28:20.188-08:00The Fleet AnchorageWith the Russo-Japanese War fleets finally finished and a game under my belt (see the <a href="http://jacksongamers.blogspot.com/">Jackson Gamers'</a> blog sometime later today for a report), I wanted to show my "fleet anchorage" or where all these little ships reside when they aren't "afloat" on the wargames table.<br />
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The box is an old, no longer usable archival box that was being discarded some years ago. But it is imminently suitable to store wargaming figures. It measures 15" x 10" x 3". I glued some magnetic sheeting from a local sign store into the bottom and then cut two upper "floors" to take advantage of the smallness of the ships. The upper floors have magnetic tape affixed to them as moorings for the ships. The Russian battleships and cruisers occupy the lower level; Japanese battleships and cruisers the middle level; and both sides destroyers and, eventually, merchant ships the upper. All the ships fit with plenty of extra room on the top level.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZ7q3L204ApI7E9MvMBZrkk1WhLPgPPt89q8zO5702QLggfMOl-8DGVHD5z4rgCi20lbVP-jLYaYx0oTxOTwK9WNSjOU4El5Tvl_4T6I5Bz1Z53Rspx5pTT_X0JfVOoFWepSmQ0HfNBk/s1600/Storage_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZ7q3L204ApI7E9MvMBZrkk1WhLPgPPt89q8zO5702QLggfMOl-8DGVHD5z4rgCi20lbVP-jLYaYx0oTxOTwK9WNSjOU4El5Tvl_4T6I5Bz1Z53Rspx5pTT_X0JfVOoFWepSmQ0HfNBk/s320/Storage_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Part of the Russian fleet on the lower level. One ship is turned upside down so you can see the metal base I glued to the plastic ship base to provide heft and a mooring for the ship.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_xTWn47tTR4iIwxpYcTF-BFZqEbinDG-mGZCIZcUq5uU2OcY6n8zHK3NSb32yWx274F0uVHoRyw0kK38Lhr3q9qQ3WRx3gziC16PKPwopHuV82Bg2t445lvTPipaRt88M9nIBAlDlHo/s1600/Storage_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_xTWn47tTR4iIwxpYcTF-BFZqEbinDG-mGZCIZcUq5uU2OcY6n8zHK3NSb32yWx274F0uVHoRyw0kK38Lhr3q9qQ3WRx3gziC16PKPwopHuV82Bg2t445lvTPipaRt88M9nIBAlDlHo/s320/Storage_02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here part of the Japanese fleet sits on its middle layer. The finger holes on each end aid in lifting this level out of the box.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeAUi_31KQR1iJfVPFg6tamPIX8svTpC_axWLO_zl7hUzEqOAuxYlbyAZo0Cc6qxzA_qRt3h6QzcWvUD7yGF4kFXJBVdX1J5u7bPZbcobwGiEvF3_UHNtL_OcBUJD7XphTFL2EtDKrjw/s1600/Storage_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeAUi_31KQR1iJfVPFg6tamPIX8svTpC_axWLO_zl7hUzEqOAuxYlbyAZo0Cc6qxzA_qRt3h6QzcWvUD7yGF4kFXJBVdX1J5u7bPZbcobwGiEvF3_UHNtL_OcBUJD7XphTFL2EtDKrjw/s320/Storage_03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">All three levels of the fleet anchorage.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-69677637264341110112010-11-08T11:34:00.000-08:002010-11-08T11:34:31.528-08:00The Rest of the Baltic FleetJust this past Friday evening I completed the last of the Russian Baltic Fleet (4 battleships and 5 cruisers). They are presented for your viewing enjoyment. All models are 1:2400 scale ships from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/Catalog.html">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a>. Please click on the photos for a larger image.<br />
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The Baltic Fleet was divided into two sea-going squadrons and sent on an immensely long voyage to the Far East, there to meet their doom against the Japanese fleet at Tsu-shima in the Korean Straits. A few of the ships survived the battle, some were captured and incorporated into the Japanese fleet, and some were sunk.<br />
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The four modern battleships of the 1st Battle Division, 2nd Pacific Squadron were already posted immediately preceding this post. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5GUBvoGzExdxSzau20iPQERxGGgUnDvvB3043K5XZAIGqXsp14ZfAplFgl42jaavIem3I7aSyGeaqvs00XQKFnQ7TTlHE3dYKexoM0s_X0lF_OFlc0ZcRDE-alVAfgir900ha7sFy-lQ/s1600/2ndBatDiv_2ndPacSqdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5GUBvoGzExdxSzau20iPQERxGGgUnDvvB3043K5XZAIGqXsp14ZfAplFgl42jaavIem3I7aSyGeaqvs00XQKFnQ7TTlHE3dYKexoM0s_X0lF_OFlc0ZcRDE-alVAfgir900ha7sFy-lQ/s320/2ndBatDiv_2ndPacSqdn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The 2nd Battle Division, 2nd Pacific Squadron consisted of three battleships and one armored cruiser. The three battleships' pictures have already been posted previously. The only new ship here is:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">With the exception of one yacht-cruiser (<i>Svietlana</i>), three destroyers, and the fleet auxiliaries that accompanied the Baltic Fleet, that completes all my Russian ships for the Russo-Japanese War. As Panzerschiffe makes a <i>Svietlana</i>, I may end up getting it although it didn't take part in the Battle of Tsu-shima, having been ordered to escape to Vladivostok at the start to let them know the fleet was coming. I'm also short four Japanese destroyers. But for all intents and purposes, the fleets are finished, URRAH! BANZAI!</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-60322717932822572532010-10-31T13:10:00.000-07:002010-10-31T13:10:56.587-07:00Baltic Fleet Battleships, Part 1As I posted yesterday, I completed six of the Baltic Fleet battleships that sailed to the Pacific, only to die at Tsu-shima. Today I present them, starting with the four brand-new battleships of the <i>Borodino</i> class, which were hurried into completion and for which Admiral Rozhdestvenski was forced to wait before he could sail. Of course if he had sailed earlier with only the smaller number of capitol ships, the big question would have been could he have arrived near the Japanese home islands before Admiral Togo could repair his ships that were damaged in the Battle of the Yellow Sea by the Russian 1st Pacific Squadron? An interesting speculation, no doubt!<br />
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These are all Panzerschiffe Miniatures models. Please click on the pictures for a larger image.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of these four battleships, only the <i>Oryol</i> survived the battle but was captured by the Japanese. The other three were sunk in the action. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Additionally, I completed two older battleships, which were part of the 2nd Battle Division. In addition to the <i>Oslyabya</i>, which was pictured earlier, and the <i>Admiral Nakhimov</i>, an armored cruiser, which hasn't been painted yet, the 2nd Battle Division consisted of:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">More ships will be posted later this week.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-65437883461919349182010-10-30T18:11:00.000-07:002010-10-30T18:11:25.888-07:00The "Small Boys"Torpedo boat and torpedo boat destroyer development was improving as the Russo-Japanese War opened, but still was not up to what would occur some ten years later in the First World War. Even though both the Japanese and Russian navies had significant numbers of both types of vessels, they weren't as effective as they would be in ten years. But since I have the models as part of the Tsu-shima fleet lot that I bought, I will use them. All models are from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a>. Please click on the pictures for a larger image. <br />
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The Japanese torpedo boat destroyers and torpedo boats operated primarily in 4-boat divisions. I have enough models for four destroyer divisions (three of 4-boats and one of 3-boats), which will replicate the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Destroyer Divisions of the main battle fleet, and two torpedo boat divisions (each of four boats), which will replicate the 9th and 14th Torpedo Boat Divisions. All of the Japanese destroyers were based on British models, either the 4-stacker or 2-stacker versions. They are pictured below. <br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgdj2VLiX2J7mBZG0ea9rGqJj5yy3Vg6w1dwpk5t_0ZyNOU-475ue5rCNnegZQNPz6gyuP73GzaDq316FEV6iDOS1abeMKNilXJ-PJBWQGTamz_BZSJ04wxHzi8Xcf1peSTXO7O6elc8/s1600/DesDiv03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKgdj2VLiX2J7mBZG0ea9rGqJj5yy3Vg6w1dwpk5t_0ZyNOU-475ue5rCNnegZQNPz6gyuP73GzaDq316FEV6iDOS1abeMKNilXJ-PJBWQGTamz_BZSJ04wxHzi8Xcf1peSTXO7O6elc8/s320/DesDiv03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Division 3, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Usugumo</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> and <i>Shinonome</i> (<i>Murakumo</i> class) (2-stackers), and <i>Sazanami</i> (<i>Ikazuchi</i> class) (4-stacker).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgplTY5y2_iAM7M20p53YEUXjOudqJ9YMxVLee-jm16EQunTeteyUP1OerNRCTKv67QLgDrcdnrH8-sJu3wNkWQNfxHt6ICcx9pYi5KS_t6_fZaRKhyphenhyphen_4mxO7Y-di9T8c0qmdwP3WrZTIE/s1600/DesDiv05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgplTY5y2_iAM7M20p53YEUXjOudqJ9YMxVLee-jm16EQunTeteyUP1OerNRCTKv67QLgDrcdnrH8-sJu3wNkWQNfxHt6ICcx9pYi5KS_t6_fZaRKhyphenhyphen_4mxO7Y-di9T8c0qmdwP3WrZTIE/s320/DesDiv05.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Division 5, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Murakumo</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, <i>Shiranui</i>, <i>Yugiri</i>, and <i>Kagero</i> (<i>Murakumo</i> class).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD6EEHO7P_Re4GDKc8Yk34WkEs7Mk_fDBSjngAwxnrMnwE1rl2gWEVp1ky9UrJ0wST0_Zmo_U-BvjUI6AdWwD3E9skCckfQAAJDOnXhy0owiS551xEjg5l6T1PCXCbNvY1lkim5olbbX8/s1600/TorpDiv9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD6EEHO7P_Re4GDKc8Yk34WkEs7Mk_fDBSjngAwxnrMnwE1rl2gWEVp1ky9UrJ0wST0_Zmo_U-BvjUI6AdWwD3E9skCckfQAAJDOnXhy0owiS551xEjg5l6T1PCXCbNvY1lkim5olbbX8/s320/TorpDiv9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Torpedo Boat Division 9, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Aotaka</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, <i>Hato</i>, <i>Kari</i>, and <i>Tsubame</i> (<i>Aotaka</i> class).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENrThgOyZXhCmxnfFGsgk7u0DySWY8cfhGBtXOYltfj-uJ06XTqOSem6SHcPafuDGUxOf9zUZIgsa9bCMWa0782Ev2fH9Rkvk5nt6Zub1PeZGALMw0cSfe0wCh82kdC8rMcaNAvYoecY/s1600/TorpDiv14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENrThgOyZXhCmxnfFGsgk7u0DySWY8cfhGBtXOYltfj-uJ06XTqOSem6SHcPafuDGUxOf9zUZIgsa9bCMWa0782Ev2fH9Rkvk5nt6Zub1PeZGALMw0cSfe0wCh82kdC8rMcaNAvYoecY/s320/TorpDiv14.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> Torpedo Boat Division 14, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Chidori</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">, <i>Hayabusa</i>, <i>Manadzuru</i>, and <i>Kasasagi</i> (<i>Hayabusa</i> class).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Destroyer Divisions and the 14th Torpedo Boat Division were part of the 1st Battle Squadron, which included all the battleships. The 5th Destroyer and 9th Torpedo Boat Divisions were part of the 2nd Battle Division, which included only cruisers. I didn't have enough models to make the 4-boat 4th Destroyer Division, part of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Maybe I'll do that one some time in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Russian Navy made even more use of destroyers and torpedo boats since they followed the French operational doctrine called the <i>Jeune Ecole</i> which posited that smaller torpedo laden ships and boats could defeat the opposing fleet in home waters, preventing that fleet from intercepting its commerce raiding cruisers. Both Port Arthur and Vladivostok had large numbers of destroyers and torpedo boats as part of their "floating defenses." About half of the Port Arthur destroyers, however, were assigned to the battle squadron as the 1st Flotilla, represented on three separate bases.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0U3LAXhCkfu87MmUGbjYq0lET2F7jVe79YY6stQGrCu8mAwBdAnD_c9MWokmy0RtySLkoDogabU2YIb2yE90xjmem3gUR7wDWGUc99BnV88d8Ndq6JZ_EVrhRZJeL1bpgaE1HUKjCiM/s1600/DesFlot1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0U3LAXhCkfu87MmUGbjYq0lET2F7jVe79YY6stQGrCu8mAwBdAnD_c9MWokmy0RtySLkoDogabU2YIb2yE90xjmem3gUR7wDWGUc99BnV88d8Ndq6JZ_EVrhRZJeL1bpgaE1HUKjCiM/s320/DesFlot1a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Flotilla 1a, consisting of four </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Bezstrashni</i> class.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3RHA6T0H9zJyXV87GMLQlnZDUH2HdC5b-h6NHP3IX9X2YMIrJrZRmzCHnHnlN9A7SGRvWF5ONrygDAKFFZzUBz73Dd5f5tyKIvnHfmLxdLsXf6GusUQueWQpz4E4fejJEX0n54clnNg/s1600/DesFlot1b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3RHA6T0H9zJyXV87GMLQlnZDUH2HdC5b-h6NHP3IX9X2YMIrJrZRmzCHnHnlN9A7SGRvWF5ONrygDAKFFZzUBz73Dd5f5tyKIvnHfmLxdLsXf6GusUQueWQpz4E4fejJEX0n54clnNg/s320/DesFlot1b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Flotilla 1b, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">one <i>Boevoi</i> class, two <i>Boiki</i> class, and one <i>Vnimatelni</i> class.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vPjPIdS5mKhU7QCjXY_ho-9RE_EysIyu19C5CGO5JRz6riCSr1m_sZvCRvOcNthjJWdwgvFZW8vhAFuQ1lzOzkwbiXLThdM4Gp6RvV_ftthGoPv7CvbXrBMq8zG_kyxVnFUV__0LZso/s1600/DesFlot1c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vPjPIdS5mKhU7QCjXY_ho-9RE_EysIyu19C5CGO5JRz6riCSr1m_sZvCRvOcNthjJWdwgvFZW8vhAFuQ1lzOzkwbiXLThdM4Gp6RvV_ftthGoPv7CvbXrBMq8zG_kyxVnFUV__0LZso/s320/DesFlot1c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Flotilla 1c, consisting of </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">one <i>Lt Burakov</i> class; and two <i>Puilki</i> class</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Russian ships that were enroute to the Pacific when the war began (see <a href="http://colcampbell-shipyard.blogspot.com/2010/10/early-russian-reinforcements.html">Early Reinforcements</a>) were accompanied by six destroyers, which I've organized into a second flotilla of two 3-boat bases.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULA4uvFlTE4ChFfM4H_HYcRoeHD60pXSzQsV0bq3RDBMdBL7Khj6J71NwU3S7NWDa5BmTRz827JQ-VdcTQCOq5y_ewSr97l-PFGNH_a58WZMEMAZM_Usc_JW_tiigSt_Wnd3yUVcIoEY/s1600/DesFlot02a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULA4uvFlTE4ChFfM4H_HYcRoeHD60pXSzQsV0bq3RDBMdBL7Khj6J71NwU3S7NWDa5BmTRz827JQ-VdcTQCOq5y_ewSr97l-PFGNH_a58WZMEMAZM_Usc_JW_tiigSt_Wnd3yUVcIoEY/s320/DesFlot02a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Destroyer Flotilla 2a, consisting of three <i>Boiki</i> class.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Some of these destroyers also accompanied the 2nd Pacific Squadron on its epic journey from the Black Sea to the Straits of Korea near Tsu-shima Island.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I decided in my games to use these destroyer and torpedo boat divisions as single units. They didn't have the stamina to go up against undamaged battleships and cruisers during the main battle but could (and hopefully will) be used to harry and sink the wounded "big boys" who fall out of the battle line. They will also, I'm sure, go up against each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This completes all the ships I require for the 1904 naval battles, both the "real" ones of the Yellow Sea and Ulsan and the "imaginary" one that will pit all the available 1904 ships in a pre-cursor of the 1905 Battle of Tsu-shima. I'm currently working on fifteen additional main combatants (10 battleships and 5 cruisers) which will join the three already completed ones. Four of the battleships will be completed tonight so their pictures should be posted tomorrow. The rest will be completed this coming week.</span></div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-24205508076824647982010-10-23T14:56:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:03:50.466-07:00Last Japanese CruisersIn my last post, I pictured almost the entire Japanese battle fleet, minus some protected cruisers that were either on patrol or not yet in commission. I have now rectified that lapse.<br />
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The first five protected cruisers were, I believe, either manning the various patrol lines in the Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan or were supporting the Japanese Army's advance to Port Arthur. All of them are older, obsolescent ships that were not included in the main fleet operations.<br />
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They are all <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a> models and the catalog number appears after each ship's name. As usual, please click on the picture for a larger image.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9K0RPixrDJkZW-WIIiwIzy49IHFA5gRPSb8gUW1dqyOfsX4PhnJ-KB0x4sTjOPzERzMd1DB_a6M9r8_WSXg7MhV5FRWGFTeo4Zshd7WvrtAUAYgkTz12hcLLMvIGSRZ-1aQt9C85lIyY/s1600/Izumi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9K0RPixrDJkZW-WIIiwIzy49IHFA5gRPSb8gUW1dqyOfsX4PhnJ-KB0x4sTjOPzERzMd1DB_a6M9r8_WSXg7MhV5FRWGFTeo4Zshd7WvrtAUAYgkTz12hcLLMvIGSRZ-1aQt9C85lIyY/s320/Izumi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Izumi</i> (L-333) is the oldest of the five, having been built in the early 1880s as the Chilean <i>Esmeralda</i>. Panzerschiffe has no designated model for her, so I have used the one for the <i>Suma</i> as they appear to be similar in appearance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dQwbebTgE9dPmoS-KpjMTWLst3bHj2o6f2MsKWI92GwcMbXSjvup5BLDhblFlecg6zQZ-Wmavtzw9ZyaZjuWnCYzhj_KoMyFb7nr2YmIFeKq-CorxfpmkN0-tq8SIwoJF__AJQJqp50/s1600/Akitsushima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dQwbebTgE9dPmoS-KpjMTWLst3bHj2o6f2MsKWI92GwcMbXSjvup5BLDhblFlecg6zQZ-Wmavtzw9ZyaZjuWnCYzhj_KoMyFb7nr2YmIFeKq-CorxfpmkN0-tq8SIwoJF__AJQJqp50/s320/Akitsushima.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Akitsushima</i> (L-333) was one of the first cruisers built in Japan in the early 1890s. Again, I've had to use a model of the <i>Suma</i> for her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLh7uQtGyC3r2lCynaypATx7koaKjpa5wD8bM5BZMjORnH0gGp_K4b6ej97JGAqQ2WjVZJrlYmqyuscMPuF0T-vW1aL5fWia8WXvF1cMRgX9U0ghtSMFiu16lU7hDWyqMycNEcEaWGbc/s1600/Takasago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLh7uQtGyC3r2lCynaypATx7koaKjpa5wD8bM5BZMjORnH0gGp_K4b6ej97JGAqQ2WjVZJrlYmqyuscMPuF0T-vW1aL5fWia8WXvF1cMRgX9U0ghtSMFiu16lU7hDWyqMycNEcEaWGbc/s320/Takasago.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Takasago</i> (L-353) was a near sister of the <i>Yoshino</i>. She was built in the UK as an improved design of the Argentine <i>25 de Mayo</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsDH9wuA8Yb11f24-0zCQ9Wx0ywDAErVCAGhQa3RsokxJp9R7O_QGpd1q9Wb5V86kSzRDpWci_-TdvKU148pbrpvQv70oXJcH3c58MYQwjtydnwMl4scU2wn4tHwfFZXgUr_xYvxbt4o/s1600/Suma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJsDH9wuA8Yb11f24-0zCQ9Wx0ywDAErVCAGhQa3RsokxJp9R7O_QGpd1q9Wb5V86kSzRDpWci_-TdvKU148pbrpvQv70oXJcH3c58MYQwjtydnwMl4scU2wn4tHwfFZXgUr_xYvxbt4o/s320/Suma.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Suma</i> (L-333) and her sister, <i>Akashi</i> (below), were built in Japan and were based on the earlier <i>Akitsushima</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXlZ4690_dGnlDFADoKsV_3q5TpyivqItx_YZXyuvnX02oUyM5JIu9gCSj5282CMgD6H_Q119-MqyrnNwonm39ZvzmCfPG-3j863byc2bKtUqcO9P0r4vJc_eX4gOvojCWont7Z1L400/s1600/Akashi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXlZ4690_dGnlDFADoKsV_3q5TpyivqItx_YZXyuvnX02oUyM5JIu9gCSj5282CMgD6H_Q119-MqyrnNwonm39ZvzmCfPG-3j863byc2bKtUqcO9P0r4vJc_eX4gOvojCWont7Z1L400/s320/Akashi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The <i>Akashi</i> (L-333), sister of the <i>Suma</i>, above.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The next two protected cruisers were so "modern" that they weren't even in commission by the August 1904 battles. They were rushed into completion to aid the Japanese fleet in meeting the Russian 2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons in 1905.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZx06DsYXFh5JR7Ob3oom8VnavtlnDP6XaOpUUnNcgTbkw6RpM5gkS2OW4TEP84VhZcKqTXiTqgdWHzdb5LNjCrSZYCcOSwCOQC6aGyLowFg9ugdjrsHGGND0_AN51GaB5lIvGHGgL70/s1600/Tsushima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZx06DsYXFh5JR7Ob3oom8VnavtlnDP6XaOpUUnNcgTbkw6RpM5gkS2OW4TEP84VhZcKqTXiTqgdWHzdb5LNjCrSZYCcOSwCOQC6aGyLowFg9ugdjrsHGGND0_AN51GaB5lIvGHGgL70/s320/Tsushima.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Tsushima</i> (L-337) was a sister of the <i>Niitaka</i> and was actually named for the island before it became famous for the battle that destroyed the Russian navy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">This now completes major combatants for the Japanese battle fleet that I will be using for recreations of actual battles and for realistic (I hope) "could have been" battles over the coming months. The destroyers that accompanied the battlefleet are being commissioned even now and their pictures (along with those of the Russian destroyers) will soon grace this blog. I have not attempted to model the large number of Japanese auxiliary cruisers who were used for scouting and sea lane control. That type of naval operations falls outside the purview of the battles I will be recreating.<br />
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Note: The major combatants of the Russian 2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons will be the next to be painted after I finish the destroyers. </div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-41722530184404416662010-10-18T18:11:00.000-07:002010-10-18T18:11:36.790-07:00Japanese Battle FleetDuring the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese had the advantage of operating in their own backyard, so to speak. As such, they were able to concentrate their naval power more effectively that the Russians. This is also reflected in my painting of the Japanese fleet. Posted below are the Japanese ships which I believe, from all the evidence I can locate both in books and on-line, actively participated in the two August 1904 naval battles -- Yellow Sea on August 10 and Ulsan on August 14.<br />
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Except for one model, all ships are from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a>. The number after each ship's name is the catalog number.<br />
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They are painted in my interpretation of the Japanese war color scheme -- pewter gray hulls, turrets, upperworks, and funnels and wooden decks. As usual, please click on the picture for a larger image.<br />
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From the information that I can develop, the Japanese fleet was organized into three squadrons, each of several battle divisions and accompanying destroyers and/or torpedo boats. During these August battles, several of the squadrons were broken up and used either in a patrol line or as separate ships with other divisions. I've tried to reflect this in my order of battle, but any errors are in my interpretation of the evidence.<br />
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The main fighting component was the 1st Squadron commanded directly by Admiral Togo, who also commanded the 1st Battle Division:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgksSEMDOItD2m5JiZB6Crou_Pmarxz8He6gow_xXu2BqSkiMMrubvVp3AT6Zs5BKmHCypqHphvDMjlm1kbQfCg7_U-j9gMlV2XIprzXe5d5EFoog_rrlvDTiCSrJOCOTlHo9RakAfdau0/s1600/1st+Subdivision+1st+Division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgksSEMDOItD2m5JiZB6Crou_Pmarxz8He6gow_xXu2BqSkiMMrubvVp3AT6Zs5BKmHCypqHphvDMjlm1kbQfCg7_U-j9gMlV2XIprzXe5d5EFoog_rrlvDTiCSrJOCOTlHo9RakAfdau0/s320/1st+Subdivision+1st+Division.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The "1st Sub-Division" consists of:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">There were also three ships that were sunk earlier in 1904 that were part of the main battle fleet.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition to Admiral Togo's main battle fleet, the 2nd Squadron, commanded by Vice Admiral Kamimura, was watching the sea lanes between Japan and Korea to protect the Japanese shipping against the Russian cruisers operating from Vladivostok (see <a href="http://colcampbell-shipyard.blogspot.com/2010/10/russian-independent-cruiser-squadron.html">Russian Independent Cruiser Squadron</a> post).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And finally, as far as I can determine, there were five protected cruisers (<i>Akashi</i>, <i>Suma</i>, <i>Takasago</i>, <i>Izumi</i>, and <i>Akitshushima</i>) which were either in the patrol lines or were supporting the Japanese Army's advance towards Port Arthur. Two other protected cruisers (<i>Tsushima</i> and <i>Otowa</i>) were not yet commissioned, not joining the fleet until late 1904/early 1905. All seven are currently being painted and pictures will be posted soon.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-81659707545543185142010-10-16T13:30:00.000-07:002010-10-18T10:45:55.553-07:00Early Russian ReinforcementsIn early 1904, troubled by increasing tensions, the Russian navy dispatched reinforcements from the Baltic Fleet to Port Arthur. These ships, under the command of Admiral Virenius, only reached as far as the Red Sea and Djibouti before they were ordered back home after war broke out. They made it back to the Baltic just in time to turn around and sail back with the 2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons to defeat at Tsu-Shima.<br />
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The color scheme is my interpretation of the Baltic Fleet's "lamp black" (in this case charcoal) hulls, white upper works, wooden decks, and ochre funnels. As usual, please click on the pictures for a larger image.<br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Added Note:</span></span></span></u></b><span style="color: black;"> All ships are from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/Catalog.html">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a>. The number after the </span>ship name is the catalog number.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMP9usMnZ7O0ELz_CKAAcnWqHThO1ZEFOKAH0X28uDPRaM1QFC6ITZXuc0wtYDTBZ9OtYHG8_V7zJGVvi1j74ssqMww8kv__NcicAwBHz_pLvXoS6W8_NeSiAyno6ylB1jrxVDsxbUhE/s1600/Early_Reinforcements.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMP9usMnZ7O0ELz_CKAAcnWqHThO1ZEFOKAH0X28uDPRaM1QFC6ITZXuc0wtYDTBZ9OtYHG8_V7zJGVvi1j74ssqMww8kv__NcicAwBHz_pLvXoS6W8_NeSiAyno6ylB1jrxVDsxbUhE/s320/Early_Reinforcements.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This early reinforcement squadron consisted of the:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I decided to go ahead and paint these three ships (and their accompanying destroyers) to use them in a "what if?" scenario in early December that will pit the full-strength and reinforced 1st Pacific Squadron against the full-strength (at the time) Japanese battle squadrons.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-53764826409822710912010-10-16T13:18:00.000-07:002010-10-19T07:05:32.087-07:00Russian Independent Cruiser SquadronIn addition to the 14 battleships and cruisers in the last post, the Russian Pacific fleet also had an independent cruiser squadron based at Vladivostok ("Rule the East" in Russian). This squadron was tasked with interrupting the Japanese maritime traffic across the Sea of Japan between the Home Islands and Korea. They were moderately successful. In August 1904, the squadron (minus one cruiser, see below) sailed to attempt to assist the transit of the main Pacific fleet from Port Arthur to Vladivostok. Of course they were too late, encountering Japanese cruisers at the Battle of Ulsan (14 August 1904) where they lost one of the three and were forced to turn back to Vladivostok.<br />
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The color scheme is my interpretation of their olive drab hull and khaki upperworks. As usual, please click on the pictures for a larger image.<br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Added Note:</span></span></span></u></b><span style="color: black;"> All ships are from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/Catalog.html">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a>. The number after the </span>ship name is the catalog number.<br />
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The only information I've been able to determine about her fate is that she was wrecked near Vladivostok and blown up to prevent capture.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b><u>Correction:</u></b><span style="color: black;"> A correspondent on the Pre-Dreadnought Yahoo Group informed me that I (unfortunately) overlooked the "small" fact that <i>Bogatyr</i> survived to serve in the Baltic and be scrapped in 1922. OOPS on me! The information on being blown up came from two contemporary New York Times reports of late May 1904. Another</span></span> correspondent has found a report that <i>Bogatyr</i> was refitting in Vladivostok at the time of the action off Ulsan. This might have resulted from a grounding on rocks requiring extensive hull repairs which could have prevented <i>Bogatyr</i> from joining the squadron off Ulsan.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This post completes the Russian Pacific fleet (or 1st Pacific Squadron as it was later called), except for the destroyers. I'm still working on them.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-17283220929394912192010-10-02T14:05:00.000-07:002010-10-02T14:20:05.272-07:00The Russian Pacific SquadronI finally finished painting and basing the 14 battleships and cruisers of the Russian Pacific Squadron based in Port Arthur in 1904. These ships were the best trained and commanded of the three Russian fleets (Baltic, Black Sea, and Pacific) and held their own against the Japanese until some unfortunate events during the Battle of the Yellow Sea. All models are from Panzerschiffe Miniatures (<a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">link</a>) 1:2400 scale Russo-Japanese War line. The number in parentheses after each ship's name is the Panzerschiffe catalog number.<br />
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A word of advisement: These ships are painted in my interpretation of the early war color scheme with dark tan upperworks, rusty brown hulls, and ocher funnels with black bands. I know others use different schemes but, after all, these are my ships (He says with a big grin.) . Please click on the pictures for a larger image.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, which I have not yet painted or based.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div> The Russian Pacific fleet also had an independent cruiser squadron based at Vladivostok. These four cruisers are being painted and pictures will be posted shortly.<br />
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For my initial battles, I will have a variant order of battle that will include three possible reinforcement ships which were on their way to the Pacific when war broke out. The battleship <i>Oslyabya</i> and two destroyers were in the Red Sea and the armored cruiser <i>Dmitri Donskoi</i>, protected cruiser <i>Aurora</i>, and four destroyers were at Djibouti. This small squadron could have been ordered to proceed to the Far East instead of being recalled to the Baltic, where they later made the long voyage to oblivion with the 2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons. Pictures of them will be forthcoming once they are painted and based (and the <i>Aurora</i> and destroyers are ordered).ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-67817397506623751362010-09-10T08:11:00.000-07:002010-09-10T08:13:27.267-07:00WIP - More GunboatsEven though I've been busy this week completing the renovation work on the spare bedroom in my house, I have been able to devote a little time to painting more gunboats. As usual, please click or double click on the image to see a larger picture.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDM6m_3dJIZLQBTdiahCRZ-xALHviUNERoA7iqt-vJgp5WSIgZTZigr9htJT71NWd1j3N-1xjoW_D3veMREnCXN2gpa7pb8T42daBB4ocb18WBARetloTACAg45IuTYia_GyobkKGc2lk/s1600/Gunboats_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDM6m_3dJIZLQBTdiahCRZ-xALHviUNERoA7iqt-vJgp5WSIgZTZigr9htJT71NWd1j3N-1xjoW_D3veMREnCXN2gpa7pb8T42daBB4ocb18WBARetloTACAg45IuTYia_GyobkKGc2lk/s320/Gunboats_01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a high oblique view of the three "Asturian" (Spanish) gunboats that will be used in next Saturday's <i>Capitania General de Florida</i> game. The one in the center is more completed than the other two and contains some of my 25mm Miniature Figurine naval gunner (old Pirate line) figures.<br />
Note: The brown tops of the gun wales of the two flank gunboats are deliberate as I will be mounting the thole pins to these areas and then touching up the paint.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMElYgUwQpKT0TGWSkgzeUlReyCt4piQB9dtJ3zTZ7OJiFTsQOUxDmMTHy3Fws6Tsl4dFoQXwiMmdpwfmoQRTT1_w6r-kA7LVm2NmiOkucEpRsqGkVkWEYRVVkDBRO98B_ET2zW6g0Ic8/s1600/Gunboats_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMElYgUwQpKT0TGWSkgzeUlReyCt4piQB9dtJ3zTZ7OJiFTsQOUxDmMTHy3Fws6Tsl4dFoQXwiMmdpwfmoQRTT1_w6r-kA7LVm2NmiOkucEpRsqGkVkWEYRVVkDBRO98B_ET2zW6g0Ic8/s320/Gunboats_02.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And a low oblique of the same three. The hull colors are (from left to right) dark green, charcoal, and dark blue. The masts will be the same color as will the gun carriage and swivel gun mounts.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-28325046658279451162010-09-03T10:51:00.000-07:002010-09-03T10:52:40.077-07:00WIP - Gunboat, Part 1Last night I started on my small gunboat flotilla for my <i>Capitania General de Florida</i> mini-campaign. The next battle will feature some naval action as well as land action. This gunboat, and her two sisters, will be the Asturian (AKA Spanish) naval force that will be engaging a Britannian naval force. This resin boat is an Old Glory Shipyard rowboat (GG-001) [<a href="http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/products.asp?cat=391">link</a>] with an added slide gun and four swivel guns. I bought them on eBay several years ago, about the same time as the row-galley featured in the last two posts.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I only mounted eight of the ten thole pins, four per side. I drilled through the center of each thole pin and into the gunwhale of the boat, attached a piece of steel wire into the hole with superglue, and glued the thole pin onto the wire with superglue. I was going to make the thole pins removable but decided against that. The slide gun is also mounted on a piece of steel wire superglued into the foredeck. It will probably be left loose so I can either show damage to it or remove it for a more lightly armed boat. The swivel guns are placed into holes drilled into the gunwhales at each corner of the main deck. They may also be left loose.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The oars are long (really more like sweeps) and will be shortened slightly. The mast will eventually have a yard with a brailled up square sail on it. I may shorten the mast. Currently it is 6" long and is mounted into a hole drilled completely through the deck of the boat. It will remain removable, as will the yard. I will mount the boat on a plastic base that will be 10" (~25 cm) long and 7" (~18 cm) wide. The sweeps will be glued into the thole pins and onto the base. The base will be covered with a sea effects picture that I've used before on my 1:2400 pre-dreadnought ships and then textured with a wake and swirls left by the sweeps.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Stay tuned for additional WIP pictures.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-54332878667903714852010-08-24T07:52:00.000-07:002010-08-24T07:54:08.241-07:00WIP - Row Galley, Part 2Last night was spent working out the rigging of the masts and lateen yards for the row galley. The kit came with two masts and four yard pieces. Last week I fished the yards together using some dark brown thread appropriated from my wife's sewing basket. The masts will initially be loosely mounted in the holes in the deck provided for them while the yards will be hung on the masts so that they can be removed. I bought a roll of 24 gauge (~0.5mm) copper wire from my local Ace Hardware store on the way home from work. After several hours and a couple of false starts, this was the result:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you double click on the picture you can get a close-up of my rigging technique. I drilled a hole through the top of each mast and threaded the wire through it. I had filed a groove around the mast where the hole was and wrapped and super-glued the wire to the mast, leaving enough to form into a loop. This simulates the rigging "falls" that hold the yard. I did the same to each yard but formed the wire into a hook that would fit into the loop piece on the mast. By careful measuring (and some trimming of one end) I ensured that each yard would hang at a slant since this type of row galley used a lateen rig. Now all I have to do is paint the masts and yards, make the sails, and get them attached to the yards. There will not be any other rigging as this will be a wargaming "model" and I don't want to have to worry about rigging getting fouled with fingers and vice versa.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">You will also notice that the galley has been completed painted. The outer hull is charcoal and antique gold (ochre) while the interior is red (to hide the blood splatter). The deck is painted a desert tan color to simulate "holy-stoned" wood planking. The quarterdeck is a separate piece to which I've glued pins that fit into holes on the main deck sides. The tiller bar still requires painting (in progress) and mounting. The crewmen are being painted as well. The artillery is still unpainted.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I plan on using this same rigging technique for the smaller vessel and the three gunboats that I have. The smaller vessel will get a fore-and-aft rig on a single mast while the gunboats will have a single square main sail. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now all I have to do is come up with a suitable name for a Britannian colonial ship from the southern colonies. Any suggestions?</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-56119637492988065892010-08-17T09:58:00.000-07:002010-08-17T09:58:31.735-07:00WIP - Row Galley, Part 1Some time ago I acquired an 18th Century American row galley (the Old Glory Shipyard GG9, <i>Washington</i>, from Benedict Arnold's flotilla on Lake Champlain). I've finally begun painting her for an upcoming <i>Capitania General de Florida</i> game where she'll play a role as a Britannian ship in the naval part of the battle. I've primed the galley and have painted both of the sides. This might not have been anything close to what the <i>Washington</i> was actually painted, but it suits me (he says with a big grin!). [As usual, please click on the pictures for a larger version.]<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF71wvsS5uwnFyWEKZxxKWhax0SvqME4Sf07xSKs5ANirmN6zNVqBEoIGuTip5b-URYBGc05ZfWilEIeH9HI6ydq1m534KQ6sLOhTchzAoHV4-Q5fI1YPc-5o5OqHxY6YQqU_OI2TRQ6k/s1600/Row_Galley_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF71wvsS5uwnFyWEKZxxKWhax0SvqME4Sf07xSKs5ANirmN6zNVqBEoIGuTip5b-URYBGc05ZfWilEIeH9HI6ydq1m534KQ6sLOhTchzAoHV4-Q5fI1YPc-5o5OqHxY6YQqU_OI2TRQ6k/s320/Row_Galley_01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The row galley <i>Washington</i> with a few older MiniFig crewman aboard for perspective. The lower part of the hull is red while the upper sides are charcoal and yellow ochre. I think that the quarterdeck railings will also be yellow ochre, while the deck will be a light wood color (to represent holystoned decking) and the interior of the sides may be red.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVytCcHSjnrjRk-7x9irjudqSrIipW5ZERNx2YN_DORZHUtXsK3jAYxQwFUoDtnHaWiNKOfFtMQ_x-UuIozLJn0HNniw23GBMNQCUW6SoHDCnWNnmw5kQFB0E-HIoBNF8iXIzCNz-fIz8/s1600/Row_Galley_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVytCcHSjnrjRk-7x9irjudqSrIipW5ZERNx2YN_DORZHUtXsK3jAYxQwFUoDtnHaWiNKOfFtMQ_x-UuIozLJn0HNniw23GBMNQCUW6SoHDCnWNnmw5kQFB0E-HIoBNF8iXIzCNz-fIz8/s320/Row_Galley_02.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And here is an overhead view. She came with two masts (the two crewmen happen to be standing over the holes in the deck) and yards. Her rig on Lake Champlain was lateen sails on both masts. I am going to try that arrangement. The yards are each in two pieces so I'll have to "fish" them together. I have a clamp device that my nephew gave me several Christmases ago which will come in handy to hold the two halves while I wrap glue soaked thread around them. I have a good drawing of the galley in a book on American Revolution navies that shows how they would have been attached and hung on the mast.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">More pictures later as work on her progresses.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-51351278201583573432010-08-14T14:16:00.000-07:002010-08-14T14:16:19.619-07:00Color Tests for Russian Pre-DreadnoughtsAfter doing some reading of various interpretations of the war time paint scheme for the Russian 1st Pacific Squadron in 1904, I decided it was time to try out actually painting some ships. These four are all <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">Panzerschiffe</a> models, 2 battleships and 2 cruisers. I'm still not certain that these will be the color schemes that I will end up using - your comments will help. As usual, please click on the pictures for a larger version.<br />
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The first two test ships are battleships from the Port Arthur based 1st Pacific Squadron. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMvUffwIR374WgjMlF5fylQj6HAPoet0sfBI02NisLJR525F9yB_CELBZgLOBOUPXJRwjzjJQmzLaKro8h1ZDWPwBPIiSo9L1Lswb7FxCsk937RLamdZ2h69ITNPMqXBpiqgIIZulWR8/s1600/Tsesarevitch_L322_test.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixMvUffwIR374WgjMlF5fylQj6HAPoet0sfBI02NisLJR525F9yB_CELBZgLOBOUPXJRwjzjJQmzLaKro8h1ZDWPwBPIiSo9L1Lswb7FxCsk937RLamdZ2h69ITNPMqXBpiqgIIZulWR8/s320/Tsesarevitch_L322_test.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The battleship <i>Tsesarevitch</i> was the flagship of the Russian squadron during the Battlle of the Yellow Sea. Here he (to use the Russian/Soviet pronoun) is painted with a dark cinnamon hull, khaki superstructure, and ochre funnels with black band around the tops. The base is not finished.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The next two ships are cruisers based out of Vladivostok. Both were present at the Battle of Ulsan, where the <i>Rurik</i> was sunk.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">OK, what do y'all think? Please give me your unbiased opinions - wrong colors, too light, too dark?? My ultimate goal is to have a distinctive color scheme for the original Pacific based ships to distinguish them from the elements of the Baltic Fleet that made up the doomed 2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons. At the same time, I don't want a monotone black or gray that would make these little models nothing more than dark blobs on the gaming table.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And finally, a second test Japanese ship, this time the battleship <i>Yashima</i>. She missed the Battle of the Yellow Sea because she had earlier sailed into a Russian minefield and didn't survive the encounter.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIdnOYyq49QDorOULKufCd_Guy3tAuOoZIzRWM6qlO-SAw-eldduh_jBvTcPBqgXiTF6M7evwTYS6-GPWz-2wAsDcNxMYcoPBBjGmLXj-3D-_BwgvbDzUXPBao1wtZ73acbzHEjvHIXE/s1600/Yashima_and_Yakuma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIdnOYyq49QDorOULKufCd_Guy3tAuOoZIzRWM6qlO-SAw-eldduh_jBvTcPBqgXiTF6M7evwTYS6-GPWz-2wAsDcNxMYcoPBBjGmLXj-3D-_BwgvbDzUXPBao1wtZ73acbzHEjvHIXE/s320/Yashima_and_Yakuma.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <i>Yashima</i> has been joined by the armored cruiser <i>Yakuma</i> which was featured in a previous post.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-78615243106780531122010-07-23T11:12:00.000-07:002010-07-23T11:13:23.338-07:00Basing Scheme for Pre-Dreadnought ShipsMy last post was a look at a selection of the 1:2400 scale Japanese and Russian ships that I have. I'm now scheduled to run two games (Nov & Dec) for our group using the ships. But as you will recall from the previous post, most of them were still on the cardboard bases from the previous owner. Now I have done some experimenting and have decided on a basing scheme for the ships.<br />
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Note: All ships pictured here are from <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/Catalog.html">Panzerschiffe Miniatures</a> and the numbers in parentheses are their stock numbers. Also, please click on the pictures for a larger image.<br />
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By war gaming buddy, Lord Sterling, has already based his American and Spanish 1:2400 ships so I will follow his base dimensions since I will be using the same rules as he did for his "Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain" game back in July (<a href="http://jacksongamers.blogspot.com/2010/06/play-test-of-remember-maine-and-to-he.html">battle report of play test</a>).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YPx3nAdXLjZHP4IyVuBCdKLusQ2vi-e-_N0CNbKzlaY7dJrJFwXeqy3wpE57N1vObGvmLkX_U6FnZjNS6Wg4W6s39abiFIFn1bWoqRRoLdmpz5kQxH1Qah8XQLtG9H8arwzC9tap0CQ/s1600/USS_Iowa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3YPx3nAdXLjZHP4IyVuBCdKLusQ2vi-e-_N0CNbKzlaY7dJrJFwXeqy3wpE57N1vObGvmLkX_U6FnZjNS6Wg4W6s39abiFIFn1bWoqRRoLdmpz5kQxH1Qah8XQLtG9H8arwzC9tap0CQ/s320/USS_Iowa.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">An example of Lord Sterling's basing, here with the USS Iowa (L-304) </div><br />
The dimensions are 60mm x 30mm for battleships and cruisers and 40mm x 15mm for destroyers and torpedo boats. Last weekend I cut up a plastic sign into bases of the two sizes. I went ahead and spray painted several of the bases with a blue semi-matte spray paint that I had and several with Krylon Fusion black spray paint for plastic, which is really glossy.<br />
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But I continued my search for an effective way of representing the ocean and its waves and discovered a tutorial on the web for developing a water effects "picture." This is what it looks like:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uyQAuUy0B9gvldBgWmvrZea-eSl549yHk7OH9h5_hsrfuvezjcA8593f9Ny4ugwpb0B1xE_2hMvuu5bkIkL2rBbNXZnrMyxq1eOFBqRUjv9LR9KC84Yvas29xuCvojk2BF1ToQxH6kY/s1600/sea_effect.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uyQAuUy0B9gvldBgWmvrZea-eSl549yHk7OH9h5_hsrfuvezjcA8593f9Ny4ugwpb0B1xE_2hMvuu5bkIkL2rBbNXZnrMyxq1eOFBqRUjv9LR9KC84Yvas29xuCvojk2BF1ToQxH6kY/s320/sea_effect.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And the link to the tutorial is:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I copied this image and imported it into a Word Table scheme with 60x30mm and 40x15mm (or as close as I could get using inches) cells. I will cut the cells apart and glue them to the plastic bases.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But before I did all that, I tried a couple of ships on the standard blue bases:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">As you can see, the bases, even without any wake painted on, look rather blah. So I then experimented with the "sea effects" base:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjzfUEFHEbneWGuA9qF5pRzZ4MykVvH9uHNpFmbQANOPy6-FzDWs2NYRWSd8eQFBhmzlM1DVgKQYiVEwLjlAacnGVp_NQz0IW8wttFY8TR90-EwUs3Doy-Cn8-P7PFvYhrC3eG23ND98/s1600/Russian_TBD_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjzfUEFHEbneWGuA9qF5pRzZ4MykVvH9uHNpFmbQANOPy6-FzDWs2NYRWSd8eQFBhmzlM1DVgKQYiVEwLjlAacnGVp_NQz0IW8wttFY8TR90-EwUs3Doy-Cn8-P7PFvYhrC3eG23ND98/s320/Russian_TBD_02.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a <i>Revy</i>-class TBD on the enhanced "sea effects" base. Looks much better!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I tried a larger ship by using the Japanese armored cruiser <i>Yakumo</i> (L-332).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkpwQt3SxqEgikx5z7p8LK17h7liyTNUy7scIQ_-rBqAjZxmdNo12M2bqaIRs3nPmquQqv5dI0DqmMN5cY0IH5na-EEe4gul3e82g2w_rSyuWImvEhh52uz9KwFtQWL_cu8qnm-a1cb8/s1600/Yakumo_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkpwQt3SxqEgikx5z7p8LK17h7liyTNUy7scIQ_-rBqAjZxmdNo12M2bqaIRs3nPmquQqv5dI0DqmMN5cY0IH5na-EEe4gul3e82g2w_rSyuWImvEhh52uz9KwFtQWL_cu8qnm-a1cb8/s320/Yakumo_01.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is the <i>Yakumo</i> in the dark grey painting scheme of the previous owner.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The ship identification label was also made using Word Table with the addition of a Japanese naval ensign. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But I thought that was too dark even though it may have been the accurate war-time paint scheme. So I repainted her with lighter grey hull, superstructure, and turrets and a "sandstone" color for the decks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">As you can see, I think the addition of the "sea effects" layer to the base dramatically improves the overall look of the ships. These ships are small. The <i>Yakuma</i> is less than 2" long. I had to use my magnifying glass built into one of my painting area lamps and a 10/0 brush to apply the colors. Over the coming weeks and months leading up to my first game (Nov. 6) I will be basing and repainting the Russian and Japanese ships involved in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yellow_Sea">Battle of the Yellow Sea</a>, Aug 10, 1905.</div>ColCampbell50http://www.blogger.com/profile/15910423749022189030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627082450603563408.post-30785119187185174912010-06-30T14:31:00.000-07:002010-06-30T14:32:32.258-07:00Panzerschiffe Pre-Dreadnought ShipsBluebear Jeff had asked some time ago for some pictures of some of my small collection of Panzerschiffe pre-dreadnought ships. I am finally able to oblige him (and others). These ships were purchased from another gamer who had the Russian and Japanese fleets for the Tsu-Shima Campaign as well as a number of others. These pictures are just a sample of the two fleets. The paint jobs are by the previous owner. I re-mounted a few of the ships onto metal bases but left almost all on the original cardstock bases. To a few I've added identification labels, depending on the previous owner's identification data on the bottom of the bases.<br />
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Panzerschiffe is an American company that has 1:2400 ships. Their web site is: <a href="http://www.panzerschiffe.com/">www.panzerschiffe.com/</a><br />
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Please click on the pictures for a larger image. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5gyX6trGhNN01fTChgq2DFdzlKWdVLgVkRz2UfXsVuwHxZeZ1UixxVmpNUtaVAwJ0JGIdtB53JFRQ0eedwL6AKXraW65onrN8luaQuyi9IRo-LEuxWnKV0cM9IniLfR-cQpLzkbH3ME/s1600/A301_RU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5gyX6trGhNN01fTChgq2DFdzlKWdVLgVkRz2UfXsVuwHxZeZ1UixxVmpNUtaVAwJ0JGIdtB53JFRQ0eedwL6AKXraW65onrN8luaQuyi9IRo-LEuxWnKV0cM9IniLfR-cQpLzkbH3ME/s320/A301_RU.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The first ship is the Russian battleship <i>Pobieda</i> (others in class are <i>Peresviet</i> and <i>Oslyabya</i>).</div><div style="text-align: center;">Number A301 in the Panzerschiffe catalog.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">These Russian ships were based either in Vladivostok (<i>Bogatyr</i>) or Port Arthur.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">These Japanese ships were all in Admiral Togo's fleet at Tsu-Shima.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSU0NZniWI0Hj9WsZk-MtIEOhDGd8oFPWwq4br6F_CZV3DiI62ErEm9hQmlX2jw3_c03cVognNbZqNRufpRBqINtVHs60Zem8Ia_DxXAyc2RQZHmU38KCP5ul3ChlR88b8jmSijwLe3NI/s1600/Torpedo_Boat_Destroyers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSU0NZniWI0Hj9WsZk-MtIEOhDGd8oFPWwq4br6F_CZV3DiI62ErEm9hQmlX2jw3_c03cVognNbZqNRufpRBqINtVHs60Zem8Ia_DxXAyc2RQZHmU38KCP5ul3ChlR88b8jmSijwLe3NI/s320/Torpedo_Boat_Destroyers.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A couple of "little boys." The rather crudely written labels on the bottom of each ship indicate the larger (gray) one may be the Spanish <i>Furor</i> class destroyer, D307, while the smaller (white) one may be the American <i>Ericcson</i> class torpedo boat, D302. But that identification is not certain. They are however examples of torpedo boat destroyers and torpedo boats of the period.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">You can see examples of these and other Panzerschiffe ships in actual wargames at the following links. The ships belong to either me or my wargaming buddy, Lord Sterling.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://jacksongamers.blogspot.com/2010/06/play-test-of-remember-maine-and-to-he.html">Remember the Maine and to He** with Spain!</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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