Those keen followers will know I picked up a bargain at the recent York wargame show. The Tirpitz in 1/350 scale, the plan was to potentially use this in the summer in some Cruel Seas games or perhaps as an objective for my WW2 aircraft game. Anyway to achieve this I had to convert the model to a waterline model, that done the model was quite easy to put together.
Then onto painting, now as a wargamer rather than a model maker the painting is a bit rough. Technically the red waterline was I think removed when they moved to the blocky camo scheme. But painted just in grey it is a bit boring. I’m also not sure about the deck colour but lots of pictures show it in the
Light brown and I went with this as it simply looks better. Of course you don’t get a sense of the scale….
Here she is against one of my Cruel seas MTB’s !
and she dwarfs the USS Delong destroyer I made (I might go back and paint the Delong deck as well) any thoughts welcome on this ? It will probably be a while before she gets some table time unless we play a game with my WW2 aircraft.
People might be aware Wargames Atlantic have recently brought out a range of HYW figures specifically focussed on Agincourt. The figures are 12mm, I picked up a sprue off eBay to see what the figures are like and if they were something I might like. I plan to paint these up sometime although they are clearly smaller than the Warlord Epic figures but very nicely sculpted figures.
Also off the painting table some ACW shaken markers
And a couple more Napoleonic markers
I have several games planned over the next few days so hopefully my health will hold up
Thanks as always for checking in…
Matt❤️
Your Tirpitz is a massive beast! Nice job on the build. Good to see that your health is improving. What games are on deck this week?
ReplyDeleteMassive indeed ! Health holding up …..Napoleonics tomorrow teaching V&F so just a balanced encounter ?
DeleteQuite a collection of things this round. I think this is the first time I've seen figures to use as Shaken counters...brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry, I’m trying to reduce the number of random counters that appear on the battle field. With V&F we find it helps to identify units which are shaken not just the number of wounds as it is easy to forget, these wounded figures can be placed in front of the unit and then removed if the unit Rallies
DeleteExcellent stuff Matt!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal 👍
DeleteYou have done a splendid job on the beast of a ship and an equally fine collection of markers too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil 👍
DeleteGlad your health is on the up Matt! Tirpitz is a marvellous build, a tabletop monster! The figure markers are a good addition. Though we mostly forget to use those we have...👴🏻
ReplyDeleteSlowly improving, the figures are just nicer to look at than counters ?
DeleteI thought I was mad… great addition Matt !
ReplyDeletelol think you might be mad Dave ! I’m not planning on a whole fleet !
DeleteA beautiful ship and the colours looks just right to me. I purchased some áuthentic' Lifecolor Kriegsmarine model paints when I did my GHQ ships and these look spot on. Lovely work on the shaken markers too Matt.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence, grey seems to work, it was the deck which I suspect should be grey as well but it makes for a slightly boring model.
DeleteThe Tirpitz makes for a lovely statement model for the table. I like the utility of those Agincourt figures, being in blocks of 5, 4 and 3 is much more useful for base building than the Warlord Epic strips.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. Yes I’m going to try painting up the sprue to see how it works before committing so will share the result.
DeleteLovely work on the Tirpitz, which takes me back to the 1970's when a friend had a model of this kit, the airfix one I believe? Looking forward to seeing what you do with the WA figures, which as Norm has mentioned above, look much more useful given there mixed numbers per rank:).
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve seems you get effectively two units on each sprue, and they certainly are nicely sculpted. I’d like to see if there are some metal ranges that match in size ?
DeleteNice work with the Tirpitz Matt. HYW now, you never stop.
ReplyDeleteThanks George……..not committed to HYW yet but I have a gap in my collections ?
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ReplyDeleteVery impressive model of the ship. Plus a good look at the 10mm sprue. I see Knights in your future. Glad you're doing well and enjoying your projects!
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe…..HYW is certainly an option for the future?
DeleteThe Tirpitz looks splendid Matt…
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know In the past Battleship/Ship Decks were often made of Pine…
I think modern ships use a harder wood like Teak… the wood gives a nonslip surface…
The little Hundred Years War figures look interesting…
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly, what is confusing is the moulding on the model looks much more like welded plates and you would think they would have sculpted planks, but it certainly looks better in brown. I will go back and repaint the destroyer at some stage .
DeleteThe Tirpitz looks great Matt - I would leave the US ship the way it is - they probably had iron/steel decks? What is it with all these manufactures inventing new scales - I do know, its a GW style marketing strategy - I find it very irritating! The figures look good but then you end up with a mate who has a medieval 15mm army but they are not quite right when you put them on the same table - GRRR!
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith, I plan to paint up the HYW sometime soon and I’ll share some comparison pictures. I have seen a Utube video where they were compared to Pendraken but I’m not sure they do ?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UfpfvKpWA
DeleteI thought they compared pretty well, as per this video.
Thanks Steve I watched that video too, I’ve come to the conclusion that there must be some ‘significant’ variation in the Pendraken figures as my SYW collection is considerably smaller than the pikemen/spearmen shown in that clip, presumably their Medieval range was sculpted at a different time/person and is closer to 12mm than true 10mm ? I have been looking to see if Kalistra figures match but haven’t found a photo yet ?
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