The Royal Navy Blog (uncharted seas)

[James]

Rite well - seeing as Uncharted Seas is this year 'game from Bovy' I thought I'd celebrate the occasion by breaking out my very dusty paint collection. And why not throw a blog into the mix as well? So here we go! The advancement of the Royal Navy from box to board as best I can. And who knows i might even get my scratch-building hat on and build my own port

Tuesday after Bovi and im happy to report the first semi-completed ships are rolling off the production line.


A cruiser and a Frigate - start off small eh


Close up n the Frigate


Close up on the Cruiser

I have decided to leave the Sails for the moment. I imagine they are gonna be quite fiddly and would be nice to have some ships done first

[IanC]

looking really good James,
will be interesting to see how they sail with no sails

[James]

Rite Weds after bovi and im pleased to report more toys have been painted!!! Yes I'm as shocked as you are, one of the benefits of small systems I suppose, low number of models on of the disadvantages of fantasy - anyway onto the ships.

I am painting them up with two stage brown, Schorched then Bestail, Chainmail on the cannons, Astronomican grey on the windows and finally a Chestnut ink wash, granted this isnt very detailed and certainly wont win games day but i like the look of them and hey - thats half the fun isnt it, being able to enjoy the look of your own army!! Also this paint scheme is very quick which is always a plus point!


Two more Frigates join the first


My first completed (sort of) squadron - is that the correct term


A second Cruiser meaning now fully half of my models are painted!!! - things are looking good


Those windows are a bit of a bugger - but they look pretty good when done painstakingly


The Royal navy is becoming a force to be reckoned with!! - Just look at all those ships

Im liking these smaller pictures - the first ones were too big.

OK so 2 cruisers and 3 frigates down, 3 frigates, 1 cruiser and the battleship to go! I can do this by monday I can!

[Scotty]

no martyr ships then lol

[James]

no you nicked them all you rebellious scot ¬_¬

and i have heavy cruisers and a flagship to do but my aim is to get the starter box painted by monday - its a tall order for me >.<

[Sedge]

Fantastic work there James. I think the wooden look is perfect for ....er.....wooden ships

I think we should get a started with the standard box sets on Monday so battleship, 3 cruisers and 6 frigates should make for some good games.

[James]

You'll all be pleased to know I found a spare hour yesterday and was busy beavering away with the paintbrush with the result giving another 3 Frigates to the painted collection. - Have to admit these frigates are staring to look like a 18th Century version of the german E-boat with no sails on them


They dont look that much different from the other frigates so no point clogging up space with useless pictures.

The good news is I only have 2 models left on the TODO list - a lone cruiser and the all important battleship. The cruiser i hope to get done at some point over the weekend so i can spend a (hopefully) sunny monday afternoon painting the big boy so i can bring the whole set painted to club in the evenin

[Toby]

Very nice looking models there bud, the brown look is simple but it works wonders. Great stuff!

[Sedge]

Agreed. What colour are you doing the sails?

[James]

Hmmm As far as sails go im thinking - grey basecoat (possibly astronomican grey) then mixing skull white with khaki for the top layer and the cross of St George as a finishing touch.

As an extra i was considering a weathered approach but not sure how to do it, a grey ink maybe? possibly using the army painter (but it might be too dark)......


On a side track Ive been having a think about scratch building a port of some description, but I need your advice, which do you think would be best, a Dover port style, concrete strips and surrounding walls with defensive turrets in etc or a more rustic port, things like a wooden jetty made out of matchsticks - think pirates of the caribbean style.

Both of these are possible but the first would require significantly more work....