WIP of Japanese aeronef monitor in 28mm

[Sinewgrab]

Beautiful work here. We just have to make sure that photos of this one and the BRA Carrier get into the sticky Aeronef thread. They are far too valuable not to be there. I almost want to go back and build another Norwegian 'Nef, but I :
A: don't have room right now, what with three pirate ships being converted for 28mm use from their Megablocks stage.
B: don't have any good reasons to do so
C: Need to finish my Pygmy Army first
and D: My wife will kick my @$$ if I don't finish some of these other projects first.

Beautiful work though - almost makes me wish I lived a little closer. Like, oh, in England.

[warrenpeace]

I have to say that Japanese monitor is one of the best looking scratchbuilt ship models for wargaming that I've ever seen.

For Chinese ships, I'd suggest modelling one of them on the Chinese battleship Ting Yuen which fought in the 1895 Sino-Japanese war.  Along with her sister ship Chen Yuen, it had a big twin turret on each side of the ship for the heavy guns not directly opposite the other, and smaller turrets in the bow and stern for lighter guns.  Just in case this long link doesn't work, I found some incredible color images of the Ting Yuen modern 1:1 scale replica built as a floating museum, via a Google image search that included the terms 1895 China Ting Yuen:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hksw.org/images/Ting%2520Yuen/017_17A.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.hksw.org/Ting%2520Yuen.htm&usg=__JIrs4n9aLA7Uy8FjNCXfNcbVl80=&h=1000&w=1500&sz=354&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=8rAQ9tZktGKBQM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1895%2BChina%2BChen%2BYuen%2Bbattleship%2BOR%2Bcruiser%2BOR%2BChing%2BOR%2BYuan%2BOR%2BChao%2BOR%2BYung%2BOR%2BChi%2BOR%2BYuan%2B%2522Ting%2BYuen%2522%26as_st%3Dy%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[OSHIROmodels]

Thanks again for the comments chaps 

I am building a chinese piratical flyee thingy at the moment and it's quite boxey, but having something that looks like an 'official' Chinese naval destroyer might be a good idea, then the pirates can be sanctioned by their govenment (similar to what was happening with the boxer rebellion anyway). Muwahahahahaha.

But one thing at a time   

cheers

James

[chantyam]

There is just a wealth of stuff on here that just keeps me inspired and just a little greenwith envy

[Pappa Midnight]

Wow! 

Can't really think of anything else......... Wow!

PM

[Commander Vyper]

Now that is tidy!

Though I'd want to see it in WWWII with Japanese kamikazi handglider teams launching from it!