| The Last Conformist | 14 Dec 2024 12:41 p.m. PST |
Hi all, I'm looking for a 1:6000 model of HMS Courageous in her initial guise as a "large light cruiser", before conversion to a carrier. Preferably a stl suitable for printing at that scale but a cast model could serve too. The closest I've found is this on MyMiniFactory:
link The model shown is clearly not suitable for printing at 1:6000, but the text says there's a version for smaller scales included with reinforced detail. Unfortunately, there's no picture of that variant, and the designer hasn't replied to a query about it. Anyone's got it? Other options? As a bonus, any options for her semi-sister HMS Furious in her never-completed battlecruiser guise? |
| NCC1717 | 14 Dec 2024 3:16 p.m. PST |
Figurehead pack 1B34: link Not a great photo, but C&G are in the distance:
Pack 1B44 has all three WW1 versions of Furious. |
John Leahy  | 14 Dec 2024 4:53 p.m. PST |
Hi, at that scale I'd take a file that looked similar for WWII and use it. Anything below a BB in 1/6000 is pretty small. You can find free WWII 1/6000 ship stl's for free on Wargames Vault for a variety of nations. link Thanks. John |
 foxbat  | 15 Dec 2024 5:07 a.m. PST |
@John Leahy
The problem is that in WW2, the Courageous class (Furiuous, Glorious & Courageous) had all been converted to aircraft carriers, and no longer looked like the Large Light Cruisers they were originally link |
| The Last Conformist | 15 Dec 2024 7:55 a.m. PST |
@John Leahy: as the name suggests, the "large light cruisers" were not small ships. At 240 m, Courageous was longer than any WWI battleship and just marginally shorter than the Bismarck.
@NCC1717: Thanks. So the 1B34 contains one Courageous and one Repulse? Bit of a waste getting an extra Repulse I don't need, but I guess them's the breaks.
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| NCC1717 | 15 Dec 2024 9:05 a.m. PST |
It has been awhile, but I think 1B34 had two of each. See this old catalog: link
The Last Square site doesn't show a photo or give a list, the Scale Creep site doesn't list Figurehead 1/6000 any more, and the Magister Militum site doesn't list 1B34 any more.
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| The Last Conformist | 15 Dec 2024 9:14 a.m. PST |
Thanks again. Two each would make sense as there seems to be 3 or 4 in most packs. |
| The Last Conformist | 07 Feb 2025 2:37 a.m. PST |
For the benefit of anyone else looking for these ships: 1:6000 models are now available at Thingiverse: link |
| hindsTMP | 21 Feb 2025 2:29 p.m. PST |
1B34 had 2 x Repulse and 2 x Courageous models. I assume it still does, although I bought mine in the 90s. |
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