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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: carojon on 22 June 2024, 10:06:47 AM
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The next stage of the Camperdown project has been completed with a 'Let's Build' addition to the collection with the modelling of the 12-gun armed lugger HMAL Speculator together with a French Chasse Marie to fill a gap for those single ship privateer encounter scenarios.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpe1hya9aHVlqj_Uq7pQXPHSwQxW60UKiw7C9x-ejURt5wfjW7LonXDrxwM85-7aYKs5Yej5nm7FflVhyphenhyphenGCvUPkS1FlA4eqv0F33895KPH4c6Hu6ldcvuBGSiP47e8CJd73764Qd7n9Q4PnYi0vm0Hphzvy67EA5E9nRR3aONmWU4XT7PABVMgwFVvtoU/s4596/P1130229a.JPG)
The lugger was a common site in British waters ideally suited for operating close to shore and in the shallows that would have typified the shoal waters of the Dutch coast and was a constant threat to British merchant shipping when in the hands of competent and motivated privateers.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpxRkVMXL9NTn8woonnfxuBr7rs2rQ40IkS5cNhRkEIfq3j6YAbsrd-aMW3qmrvXz8DSvT4sxpQKr2yLhgRRXDvh5I6I5j39hIAJyoqmUvA7GjYPiHy86bwHgDa35s1_ZLxNt59RyK80iofEXLV0m1Dw91HzA8RK-wouPmagcbv4bCJisjBFYjrAx_TY/s4548/P1130230a.JPG)
If you would like to know more about luggers and how these models were constructed then just follow the link to JJ's.
https://jjwargames.blogspot.com/2024/06/all-at-sea-battle-of-camperdown-project_22.html
JJ