Thursday, 24 October 2024

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.



34 comments:

  1. Nice work, Ray! How are the other Rejects coming along on their shipbuilding projects?

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    1. Richard, Steve and Lee have painted all there's. Postie hasn't got his out of the packets yet!!!

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    2. And we are still waiting for Surjit's contribution.... he's supposed to be running the first game! Naughty boy 🤣

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  2. Nice work lots of ships on the blogosphere at the moment , must be the weather 👍

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    1. There does seem to be??? It must well be in the weather.....or it it the water?

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  3. Good looking ships Ray, they look grand.

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  4. Lovely little ships Ray and the speed paints certainly seem to have been a good choice 👍

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    1. They work well on small figures, but I've not tried them yet on anything bigger?

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  5. Superb work on those Ray! Out of interest, how big are the base sizes to try and get an idea of the size of these models?

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    1. Thanks Steve, all of the ships in this post are on 60 x 30mm bases. These are the base sizes recommended by Barry.
      Small ships 40 X 20mm
      Frigates to 50's 60 x 30mm
      3rd- 2nd rates 80 x 30mm
      Monsters 100 x 30mm

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  6. Lovely work Ray. I'll have to experiment with speed paints given some of the great results like this.

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    1. They do seem to work well, it seems most people don't get on with them?

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  7. Glorious ships. Speed paint is good for a lot of things.

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  8. A very nice fleet of ships.

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  9. Great looking fleet! Makes me want to revisit my 1/1200th naval stuff someday.

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  10. These smaller ships looking just as wonderful as their big sisters!
    Regards, James

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  11. Excellent flotilla Ray. Good job that you found the ratlines for them.

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  12. The ships are looking splendid Ray. Fiddly work but you've done a great job.

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    1. Very fiddly and I didn't even do the fiddly part either!

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  13. Nice work mate. New we just need a game!

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