"Pictures of some modern NAVWAR ships " Topic

Just thought I'd post some pictures of some ships I'm working on for use with the Shipwrecked Rules. I have US, soviet, UK and Danish mostly from the 80s and early 90s. I've got a load of 90s and 00s Japanese, Norwegian, UK and German ships arriving soon so that should open up some different games.
Recently I've got in a few games of shipwrecked the first of these made me rebase all my ships on smaller bases. The ground scale just looked really odd with the size of base I was using. I'm much happier now ships aren't sitting 4NM apart in game scale.
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ofdiceandtinymen.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/some-modern-fleetssubheadingJoep123

Really nice work Ben Walton.
I've been trying to build similar fleets for Shipwreck but in 1/2400 scale…have a long ways to go to match this.
The basing looks great too.
Good gaming;
Joe

Those look really great, as does your sea board too.

Thanks for sharing your pics.

Thanks guys, glad you like them. I had a lot of fun painting them, they are a lot quicker than the older stuff I normal do. I'll try and post some more when I get the others finished just need some helicopters now.

They do look good. Any tips on how you did them?

Thanks Colkitto glad you like them, their painted up quite quickly really.

The ships are just painted gray all over then dry brushed with lighter gray. The Deck colour is then painted on and other details picked out like radar ect. I then wash the whole ship ether with black or brown wash depending on the deck colour (so the Russians get brown wash RN black). Then go back over with a very light coat of the base gray on the big flat areas like sides of hulls to lighten them up a bit.

The bases are just cut from balsa and rounded at the end with sand paper then the ships are stuck to them using the sea texture paint.

The sea is then dry brushed, washed and then finished with a gloss coat.

Don't know if any of that helps at all.

Yes it does. Thanks for taking the time to explain – I realised after I'd posted that I might have said "please"!

One thing I am always interested in finding is a decent grey – when you have a moment could you say which ones you used? Thanks again.

No worries Colkitto Glad it helped :)

I'm using GW Administratum Grey as the base coat then a dry brush of GW Space wolves Gray (think that's the old name for that paint now) and the NATO ship decks are GW Esmin Gray

I know it's probably not the correct gray the ships should be, but my theory is that the gray will always look different depending on the light reflecting off the sea anyway.

I entirely agree about different light etc. Haven't tried GW paints – that's an interesting suggestion – will give them a go!