"Good selection of 1:600 Napoleonic" Topic

I am looking for a good selection of 1:600 Napoleonics ships that I can get in the USA.

Any decent options?

No. No company makes 1/600 Napoleonics. The closest you can get is Airfix's HMS Victory – buy in bulk and hack them apart to make what you want, and the Piratology game ships.

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Shame. Once upon a time these were selling for $1.25 USD from a distributor out West.

The gent in California (I am tired and cannot remember his handle) who does this will surely chime in here.

Your other options are different scales
– 1/300 (Old Glory, Langton, War Artisan)
- 1/450 (Peter Pig – Pirates more than Napolonic)
- 1/900 (Portsmouth, War Artisan (OK, SYW but close))
- 1/1200 (Davco/Triton/Skytrex, GHQ and Langton)
- 1/2000 (Valiant)
- 1/2400 (Old Glory, Tumbling Dice and another I cannot remember.)

Skytrex used to make 1/700, but they wend under and had only about 15 ships and ran about $40 USD per.

Per his website, I believe that you can print War Artisan ships in 1/600 scale, since they are printed from an image file. The page below shows an example, where a 1/600 Anglo-Dutch Wars ship is printed at 200% to get 1/300 scale. I would think that the 1/900 scale SYW ships could be printed at 1/600 and used for Napoleonics.

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BTW, Figurehead makes 1/2400, per below:

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I'm here scratchbuilder.

Yes its that time of the month to discuses 1/600 Napoleonic's ships.

Here we go!!!!

Bob Henry

Building a 1/600 scale fleet.

I originally got the idea from "Virtual Scratch Builder site virtualscratchbuilder.com Using the Airfix HMS Victory in 1/600 scale you can make just about any ship from a 28 – 130.

After getting your ship, first assemble parts 1, 2 and 3. This is the two sections of the hull and the deck. Use a few rubber bands to give some pressure so it set up tight. Using standard plastic model glue, let it set for a few hours to become hard.

Then take a fine tip marker and mark were you will make your cuts. Once marked make all of your cuts. You may use a hobby knife, or as like me I use a "DREMEL Motor-Tool."

Bringing the ship down to water line is the easy part. Simply cut below the gun ports that are closest to the water line leaving about 1/16th of an inch space. This is done if you are building a 1 2 or 3 Decker.

In the area of the stern of the ship you will make a cutout of the hull were the rudder would be. I take piece #16 the (nameplate) for the stand and cut it and place it in that location so you have the area below the stern windows filled. You do not have to do this on a 3 Decker as it cuts perfectly as per the original kit.

To make a ship shorter or longer then the original kit you must remove or add a section from the hull. These changes are best made before the ship is cut to water line.

To make a ship shorter remove the section between the Cargo Hold and the Middle Mast. Then glue the two sections back together.

To make a ship longer insert a section from a ship that was made shorter by putting it behind the Middle Mast. Then glue the three sections back together.

Below is a list of different numbered gunned ships and what you need to make them.

1. 28 – 38 gun Frigate, 1 deck and remove a section.

2. 44 – 50 gun Frigate, 1 deck.

3. 64 – gun ship of the line, 2 decks and remove a section.

4. 74 – gun ship of the line, 2 decks.

5. 80 – gun ship of the line, 2 decks, add a section.

6. 98 – 100 gun ship of the line, 3 decks.

7. 110-120 gun ship of the line, 3 decks, add a section.

8. 130 gun ship of the line, 3 decks, add a section, add a 4th deck from a
previous ships 3rd deck being removed.

9. Merchantman, 1 deck, and remove a section, sand down gun port if you like.

Once the ship is reassembled give it a good primer coat then finish assembling, painting, rigging, flags and mounting your ship on base.

For Frigates and Merchantman you may wish to reduce the height of the masts and reduce the number of sails per mast by removing the bottom section of sail.

As per painting and rigging your ships there are many good references out there.

On the "Yahoo groups" "WoodenWalls" in the files section there is a very good article NAVAL.xls Napoleonic Ships Painting Guide by Roy Trochim

And: TMP link

Hi,
navymodelsandbooks.co.uk provide the old Skytrex 1/700th Napoleonic's range

Now War Artisan has some 1/900 cardstock models you can resize to 1/600 very easily:

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Heller has several ships in their Cadet range that could be used.

Most are 1/600th or 1/500th(near enough)

Le Superbe
Le Phenix
Royal Louis
La Providence
La Couronne
L'Orgueilleuse