"Splash marks for 1:6000 and 1:2400" Topic

Can anyone suggest a way to make goodlooking splashes for missed shells in these two scales?

Freikorp15 – Commissary – Shell Splashes (CM36):

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They were just talking about this recently on the GQ Yahoo Group… Someone has some pics of them – maybe Mal Wright?

Yes, use very small metal washers about 1/4" in diameter, and use white glue to attach some white polyfill material to them.

Paint the washers first, to match your tabletop color.

Once the glue is dry, pull the little tufts upward to create tall, irregularly shaped splashes.

They are inexpensive, and since each is unique, they look fairly realistic.

You can even lightly spray them with paint, if you want to depict colored shell splashes for ranging purposes.

Enjoy…..

Almost forgot, the royalty fees for the above are only $1.00 USD for each splash you make. $2.00 USD each, if you make them for friends, or sell them to others. ;-)

Contact me offline for the mailing address.

Cash, in any denomination and type is readily accepted.

Ah well. I was going to make one for every shell fired (we're doing Jutland), but now I can't afford it. Maybe I'll play 40k instead…

Glad to see at least someone one this site has a sense of humor…..

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Yep. This link will show some of them in action. They are pretty big for 1:6000 scale, but then so is everything. They will work very well with 1:3000 scale and 1:2400 as well as even 1:1200. The splash just represents a different size shell in each scale.

Mal.Wright.

As an alternate to Mal's great splashes, the old standby of using golf tees is a quick solution. Groups of varied colors can be used to simulate dye-colored salvoes used sometimes to separate different ships for gun source identification.

Haven't figured out a way to make splashes yet, but if you want to buy for 1:2400 I recommend light shell splashes by Clydeside.

Extra Crispy, I made these up as one possible idea (see links). I'm trying to help a bit more than my previous suggestion of golf tees. BTW, I might also mention that before I move completely off the golf tee option, that you can cut them down in size for smaller scale battles, maybe using just the ends. One method would carve off most of the length, leaving the thick base end and a bit of the trunk as a painted 1/2400 scale. For 1/6000, you could use the tip you just hacked off to make the wider ones become the 1/6000 splashes by mounting them to flat thumbtacks. As for the suggestion in this post, I made these up tonight using cotton ball pieces glued down to custom circles printed out and covered with clear buttons. Then I applied more super glue and acceleratorin order to stiffen them up. Keep in mind that shell splashes reached impressive heights, so these might not be too badly out of scale. The one in the back is obviously a magazine explosion. I've got another idea cooking using another material and I'll try and get back with another posting.

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Typical, didn't even know about this topic but made a quick tutorial for some reason a few days ago. Hate this psychic stuff :)

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Maybe you find it helpfull, maybe not. But it is bloody cheap :)

Johan

As for "miss splashes", I have found an already cast splashes
of 1/2400th. civil war casting company, I cannot remember
the name of the company, but they did come in two heights,
and are good for bomb or shell splashes. The depth charge
explosions I have made by cutting off the base of the shell
miss marker. I have seen splash markers for 1/1200th.
advertised on English casting sights. It would be nice for
a casting company to provide us leadheads with this luxury,
a luxury necessary for our game system, The Dark Years,
War on the high seas, 1939 to 1945. In order to determine
salvo accuracy, and determine collateral damage.

I found bagfuls of clear crystals (various shapes/cuts) in a craft store. Suitable for splashes, and I plan on painting some of them to serve as smoke screens, since they'll be less 'fiddly' than wool or cotton streamers.

Clint

I use the Clydeside light/small splashes with my 1/6000 and am quite pleased. That Freikorps stuff looks intersting and might be worth a go.

Keep in mind that bomb, torpedo and large caliber shell splashes typically towered several hundred feet into the air so what might seem to be a too large splash marker is probably closer to correct than a smaller one.