A Few More IJN Vessels

Here are a few more Japanese ships: eight heavy cruisers, one carrier cruiser, three seaplane tenders, two aircraft carriers, and a fleet oiler.

The Nachi is a Panzerschiffe model, not my favorite.

Now there are 21 IJN destroyers waiting for me.

1/2400 IJN Light Cruisers

 These IJN light cruisers have been waiting several months to get finished. All are FDM printed on my Ender 5 Pro except one. I ordered four ships from a manufacturer named Panzershiffe, that I wasn't familiar with, just to check them out. I didn't care for them as well as I like the 3D printed and GHQ models. I mounted and painted them anyway, (never let anything go to waste!)

Next will be the last of my IJN carriers, heavy cruisers, sea plane tenders, and an oiler.

Looking for Feedback

 I am just looking for some feedback in this post. How do these aircraft flight markers look?

Looking for constructive criticism 

Thanks

The Last of the British Fleet

 These are the last 1/2400 scale British ships I needed, all destroyers and escorts. On the top are 6 Hunt class destroyer escorts. Next row left to right: 5 S-class destroyers, 4 E-class, 1 Tribal class, 5 A-class. Bottom row left to right: 5 Town class, 5 M-class, and 5 N-class destroyer built for the Royal Australian Navy.

I now have 7 more US ships and 58 more Japanese ships left to finish, plus a few French and Italian vessels, and some more merchant ships. After that I need to think about what to do for the aircraft squadrons.

A Batch of British Cruisers

The next batch of ships completed are all British 1/2400 3D prints.

There are nine Dido class light cruisers, one Leander class CL, four Arethusa class CLs, six Town class CLs, six Tribal class destroyers, and two heavy cruisers. One of the heavy cruisers in the photo above, Canarias, was actually a British County class cruiser vessel built in Spain for His Majesty's Spanish Navy. I have it incorrectly labeled in the photo above. Here it is corrected:

Canarias and her sister ship Balearias were an unusual configuration for the County class, having only two funnels. I couldn't find a file for these two ships. I decided to just clip off one funnel from a County class, but when I did, the spacing just didn't look right. I contemplated removing the other two funnels and most of the deck structure, then build it back in the correct configuration. But then I spied my previously built Exeter! Two funnels, spaced about right,...close enough! Forty minutes to print a new Exeter and voila, I had my Canarias!

I am taking a short break from ships now to play around with some 15MM WWII trucks I've been printing over the last week. Steyrs, Fiats, Opels, Isuzus, Macks, Deuce & a halfs, Renaults, and even a few armored cars. All free files too.

British Carriers

 Tonight I finished seven British aircraft carriers: 3 Illustrious class, Ark Royal, and 3 lend lease escorts.

Next will be either British light cruisers or destroyers.

Britsh cruisers in the center shelf

British destroyer classes

WWII Fleet Expansion

I fired up the printer to print a few more 1/2400 WWII ships. I started with some more Japanese files purchased from Ghuhkek Minis on Wargaming3D.com, but then I'm afraid I got a bit carried away. I ended up making several orders over a couple of weeks, buying nearly every British and Japanese file I didn't already have! So in the last few weeks I have printed 220 ships (not including misprints or prints I aborted to go back and reslice with changes). 

I have completed 61 ships: 20 German, 20 Japanese, and 21 British. All but 15 cargo ships have been mounted on bases. Thirteen more British ships are painted and still need the bases finished and labels attached. So, as of today, I have 146 ships left to finish: 2 Italian, 6 French, 6 American, 56 Japanese, 61 British, and 15 cargo ships. When I said a bit carried away, that was an understatement.

Here are the recent completed ships:

British battleships: Revenge, Nelson, Queen Elizabeth, and King George V classes

British cruisers: Leander CL and County CA classes

Japanese: 3 destroyers, 4 battleships, 1 carrier, 5 heavy and 1 light cruiser

Germany: 17 u-boats, 2 auxiliary cruisers, and a light cruiser Emden

And these are all that I have left to do! 

I'm going to need more carry cases!

Back to Ships

I pulled my Kriegsmarine fleet back out, and finished installing the labels. I need three more light cruisers: two Königsberg class, and one Leipzig class. Pluss several U-Boats. I'm saving up a list with more British, Japanese, Italian, and French ships to print, the next time I start up the printer.

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.