Russians- Yellow Sea RJW (New Pics 12/5)

[afilter]

I made it to Rock Con last night. I was able to pick up some RJW used ships someone bought at NAV Con and realized they were the wrong scale. So he passed them on to me. They are a combination of Viking Forge and PS.

Today my Panzerschiffe order arrived, so it was time to get painting my Yellow Sea fleets.

I decided to use some of the Viking Forge models. They were previously poorly painted, so it took awhile to clean them up. I also decided to add custom masts after seeing how nice the 1/1000 Houston models looked. I could not get all the croos members at 1/2400, but I think I captured the look. They were very easy, but time consuming.

Imperial Russian Navy Battleship Division:


Tsesarevich (Viking Forge):



Retvizian (Panzerschiffe):



Pobieda(Viking forge):


Peresviet(Viking Forge):


Sevastopol(Panzerschiffe):


Poltava(Panzerschiffe):


Next up are the Japanese which are now drying.

[warchariot]

Nice additions to your fleet!

[afilter]

Here are the rest of the Russians for the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

I tried a new technique for building masts which I am very pleased with. Basically, I used finer gauge wire vs. the styrene rod I was using and constructed the masts in two parts with a thicker lower mast and thiner upper mast.. They look much better, but are a bit more delicate as well.

Hope you like.

Askold:


Diana:


Pallada:


Novik:


DD Flotillas:


Next up will be the rest of the IJN.....

[warchariot]

Very nice again! Like the flotillas

[afilter]

I had to work this weekend, but had some time this afternoon to continue revising my RJW fleets with new masts.

Only two modified BBs today.

[shigure]

The masts are a nice touch. I suspect you are just using Superglue to set them in place? Or are you drilling a small hole first??

[afilter]

Dec 13, 2010 21:53:56 GMT -5 shigure said:

The masts are a nice touch. I suspect you are just using Superglue to set them in place? Or are you drilling a small hole first??

Most definately drilling with a pin vice and then gluing in place. Upper masts are just glued.

[warchariot]

You have to drill, if you don't you will be knocking them off all the time. The good news is it doesn't take much of a hole.