This is my Japanese fleet thus far
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| Shreaded TP ready to apply |
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| Making waves |
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| Watered down PVA glue for the TP |
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| Three done |
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| 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.
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| Germans to the laft, British to the right. |
14 comments:
Looking great Vol. I like your approach to the waves, very effective. I recognise all these ships having gone through them myself over the past few months. Lovely stuff.
Thanks Lawrence, not as nice as GHQ but serviceable I think. Shokaku came off the printer last night and I'll be printng Zuikaku, Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi, and Kaga today.
I ordered Kaga, Akagi and three IJN cruisers from Panzerschiffe to see what they looked like, but they are pretty crude and basic, so I probably won't use them. Plus they are the same price as the much more detailed .stl 3D files, then add shipping on top of that.
Great work, Vol! On the gaming table, no one will notice any difference between the GHQ sculpts and these ships.
Vol, Am impressed with your work, especially on 1:700 scale age of sail ships. I worked on a few Langton's about 15 years ago (I'm retired, in my early 70's) and noticed Henry Turner's very detailed ships early this year on the net which lit up my enthusiasm for the period. I am also scratch building masts and sails, which is much more challenging, but I assume will yield better rigging results. I've also studied the process details of ModelJ Ship on Facebook (who also constructs his own custom brass/steel masts/yards), "but the devil is in the details", and I need some advice..
1) How do you attach yard arms to brass masts? ... and keep all aligned?
2) what do you use for your furled courses? They look great.
3) Why did you opt for paper sails vice thin brass sheet?
Appreciate your time with any response.
Dan Desser
desserd@cox.net
I notice, haha
Thanks Dan. I'm sort of surprised you chose to make this comment here on a WWII navy post, rather than on one of my more plentiful age of sail posts. The answer to every one of your questions can be found in most all of my sailing ship build posts.
1) I don't use brass rod like Julian, I use KS Engineering Metal Shapes steel music wire in various gauges that I pick up at Hobby Lobby.
I first glue the yard arm to the mast with superglue to hold it in place. Then I tie it to the mast using 8/0 weight dark brown Uni-Thread.
2. I sculpted various sized furled sails from Super Sculpy, then I made molds from the originals. When I need a furled sail, i just make one using a mold.
3. Thin brass sheet? Haha, I used to use it but I don't like bleeding all over my desk, that's why. Paper is so much faster and easier. I also like to make cloth sails. They take a bit more time but it's worth it for looks. And I tie all of my sails onto the spars. The only glue I use is just a spot on each knot.
I hope this answers your questions Dan.
Cheers!
Your WW2 fleets are looking great!
Hope you are avoiding the smoke over there...
Great job Vol. They look good. I've used the TP for water thing to make my coastline for my long ships. It comes out cool. I've should of done that for the stream I made recently come to think of it now...
Japanese ships have cool sounding names. 😁
Thanks Greg. Not so lucky, haha. We are socked in. But they tell us the smoke is from the Alberta fires, not the two fires nearest us.
The smoke does give me an excuse to stay indoors and work on more ships though, haha
Haha, yes they do! Thanks Stew. Yeah I like the TP watrr method fory this scale. I first saw it on a YouTube video several years ago and tried it for some super small Great Lakes schooners I was building.
Lovely looking Japanese fleet and good looking British/German additions, thanks for the TP tip I've been going through your basing posts and must have missed it, might base up my old GW galleys for the great Italian wars, gives me an excuse to hang out with the cool nautical kids!
Best Iain
Thanks Iain. Watch this YouTube video from Marklinofsweden channel
https://youtu.be/2TwpB7sVMn8?si=MypitjfsuWTC4SNT
That is where I got the idea.
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