"More 1:1200 Langton Gunboats! " Topic

Here are my first ship models of the new year. I'm not exactly at the point where I can field – errr, float – a respectably sized flotilla, but I'm slowly getting there.

Here are Langton's 1:1200 "galley gunboat" and "large gunboat". In Flying Colors these will represent the heavier gunboats in their class/rate.

I like working on these, they have such interesting rigs. I'm not certain I've got the rigging of the standing lugsail of the second gunboat quite correct, but I wanted to portray it sailing with the wind astern, so I wouldn't have to rotate the square sail off center. Any thoughts?

More photos here if you're interested: link

Amazing stuff as always!

Awesome! Incredible detail for items so small. I don't know how you do it?!

I have just ordered my frist in-shore ships (boats) for the Baltic Fleets. I will be looking into your blog a lot James. I do like your smaller 1-1200 models. Thanks a lot for your posts.
Be safe
Rory

Thanks very much guys. Jim, the brush bristle method for rigging has definitely made the small craft easier than it would be with normal thread.

Rory, I really look forward to seeing your inshore fleet!

Pretty.

Perfect as always James. Now figure out a way to put a crew in them like the rowed boats. Any ideas? I have all of these 2MM troops, if I could just cut a few away from the formations……Keep on inspiring the rest of us.
Regards,
Vol

Thanks very much Vol. The figures in the rowed version of the small gunboat I did looked like they were just little bits of squared rods, so I bet it wouldn't be ridiculously tricky (though a little time consuming) to get some plastic rod of the right diameter and trim down little person-sized bits. It would look pretty neat. But then I'll never get my flotilla done!

What manufacturer are your 2mm troops from?

Good gosh, I could barely pick those boats up with my thick fingers much less do such fine detailing. Good job and thanks for posting.

Oh sorry James, I missed that last question. My 2MM troops are Irregular Miniatures.

You do that a lot Vol. Are you getting old????? :)
Be safe
Rory

Thanks Choctaw, glad you liked the pictures. They are pretty tiny little things, but with thick bases (which will be a little thicker once the magnetic layer is on) they turn out not to be too hard to pick up. But I'm pretty resigned to them getting dropped at some point or other :)

Those are some mightily tiny figures Vol, looking at the website! The kind I'd like to see someone else paint, but might not be willing to tackle myself….

Do you know what the code is for Langton's Standard gunboats? On the website it says K4 but these turn out to be the large gunboats.

Which website? The small one is k4, the large k5.

Langton's and No when the packs arrived they were "Large Gunboat K4". Odd…

Oops…I'm very sorry. I was trusting to memory and I just now checked and I have it reversed. K4 is the large, K5 is the small gunboats. Sorry about that.