Mad For War - 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, The Dutch 1/1200 Captured English ships

 

Before the rest of the Rejects hoisted their colours and chose which countries ships they wanted to paint up, I had already bought the set squadrons of English and Dutch, from the Mad For War lists. Here. Lee wanted to do another English squadron, so I volunteered to do another Dutch squadron. 

I didn't really want a copy of exactly the same ships, so I asked Barry to come up with another squadron?

Which he did!

And in this squadron were these two ships, above we have a captured English 44 gun ship, the Essex.

and another captured English ship, the Leopard, now known by its Dutch spelling, Luipaard. 

The Luipaard is s a 50 gunner.

Here's Barry's list for my 2nd Squadron

76 gun flagship from ARD011

50 gun English prize from ARD012 (English style sails) (Not in the standard squadron pack)
44 gun English Prize from ARD012 (English style sails) (Not in the standard squadron pack)
44 gun from ARD012 (Dutch style sails)(Not in the standard squadron pack)
2 x 38 gun Frigate from ARD014 (Not in the standard squadron pack)
3 x 26 gun older hired merchants from ARD25 (Not in the standard squadron pack)
3 x fireships + 3 burning fireship models (pinnaces, fluyts) (Not in the standard squadron pack)

I do have a few more Dutch ships to post, so look out for those in the next post.

Mad For War - 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, 1/1200 Dutch 38's

 

Here are the next size ships down from the ships in my last post, 2 x 76's and  3 x 60 gunners.

All of these ships are Dutch Frigates, all carrying 38 guns.

From top to bottom there are the following ships....

Dordrecht, Vrede, Gorinchem, Raadhuis van Haarlem, Beschermer Harderwijk and Wapen van Utrecht

A close up of the Dordrecht, Vrede and Gorinchem

Beschermer Harderwijk

Wapen van Utrecht

Just as the last post, all the ships are from Barry Hilton's excellent range Ark Royal Miniatures.

All the bases are from Warbases.

I painted up the ships using Army Painter Speed Paints, they held dig out the amazing detail of the ships, which I think would be lost if you used normal paints.

Mad For War - 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, The Dutch 1/1200 ships

I've finally painted up all of my 1/1200 Ark Royal ships, its taken me way longer than I thought it would!!

Well that's a lie straight off, I've still got a few bits to paint up........

 

Unlike the rest of the Rejects who all bought 1 squadron each, typically for me, I went over board and bought 2 Dutch squadrons and 1 English, with a few single ships added on the side, just for fun!!!

These two ships above are the largest Dutch ships, in the fleet, representing 2x 76 gunners, the Zevon Provicien and Eendragt.

Followed by 3x 60 gunners, Amsterdam, Provincie Utrecht and Groot Hollandia.

Unlike Reject Richard & BigLee, I've neither added the ratlines or rigging, its a long story......

We all planned not to do rigging and ratlines, but Richard did, so me and Lee felt the pressure to do so, Lee added rigging, while I bought all the ratlines for my fleet, which I will admit cost a fair few pennies, then put them in a safe place and now can't find the buggers!!!

So, one day I will get around to do the rigging and ratlines for my ships, but when that will be is anyone's guess.

And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

So my plan is to post up some of the ships, over the next few weeks.

Thanks for paying my little slice of the wargaming world a visit!!