WWII Fleet Extras

Here are 16 more ships to fill in each navy that I've done so far. 

Five German ships:

• Gneisenau battle cruiser 
• Prinz Eugen - Hipper class heavy cruiser
• Blücher - Hipper class heavy cruiser 
• Graf Spee - Deutschland class heavy cruiser 
• Admiral Scheer - Deutschland class hevy cruiser 

Six British ships:

• HMNZS Achilles - Leander class light cruiser 
• HMS Ajax - Leander class light cruiser
• HMS Sheffield - Town class light cruiser 
• HMS Dorsetshire - County Norfolk sub-class heavy cruiser 
• HMS Norfolk - County Norfolk sub-class heavy cruiser 
• HMS Cumberland - County Kent sub-class heavy cruiser

Five Japanese ships:

• IJN Soryu - Aircraft Carrier
• IJN Hiryu - Aircraft Carrier
• IJN Kaga - Aircraft Carrier
• IJN Akagi - Aircraft Carrier
• IJN Shokaku- Aircraft Carrier

These should round out the three fleets.

Next I'll be concentrating on the US fleet. I haven't found many freebees in the US ships. So I will most likely have to make some more purchases, like I did with this lot.

A young visitor

And another young visitor

My new Japanese fleet

 This is my Japanese fleet thus far

Shreaded TP ready to apply

Making waves

Watered down PVA glue for the TP

Three done

The final result

I found some more files for ships I didn't have that will be needed to game some of the more famous scenarios. These include additional British cruiser classes, German cruisers, and a few more famous IJN carriers. I've been in the process of printing them all day and mountin them to bases as they come off the printer.

Germans to the laft, British to the right.

WWII German Fleet

 I finally had a couple of days to get back to work on the 1/2400 WWII fleets. This one is the German fleet. It only has 13 vessels so far. The next time I have enough new files to justify firing up the printer again, I will print another Hipper class heavy cruiser to use for the Prinz Eugen, and another Scharnhorst to use for the Gneisenau. The Scharnhorst here is GHQ and the Bismarck is scratch built.

1/600 Scale Spanish Armada Transport Galleon

 A couple of weeks ago Henry Turner, from Turner Miniatures, asked me if I would be interested in building a ship from his upcoming Spanish Armada Kickstarter coming out around September 1st so he can use it for advertising. Of course I said no! (NOT LIKELY!) I actually said hell yes! So here is the build of a 1588 Spanish Armada Uncas Transport Galleon. I hope you like it!

After Henry sent me the file, I sliced it with Ultimaker Cura 4.12.1 to prepare it for my Ender 5 Pro printer. Then started printing.

I use masking tape after the brim has printed to ensure the print stays fast to the table.

The print turned out beautiful

I had never built one of these before so I had to do some research. There is not much to go on.

The first base colors are on

I built the masts in my usual method with steel music wire

The sails for this one are made from regular printer paper

Masts set

Spars are tied on and tie holes punched into sails

Sails get tied onto spars with just a touch of glue to hold the knots

All of the sails are now on

The first of the standing rigging is being applied

Time to make the ratlines. One set more for this ship due to the extra mast

Ratlines mounted

All of the standing rigging is done and the first of the running rigging has started at the stem 

I'm sorry I didn't take any photos of the running rigging process. It was a bit more involved than my usual. The rigging is complete in the photo below.

The base is cut and vinyl texture is on and dry. The hull shape is cleaned out.

And the finished beauty shots:

I hope Henry likes it!