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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: Beast of Bukhara on 17 March 2016, 10:31:37 PM
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Inspired by Cameron Thomson’s Monitor M33 made for last years, Suez 1915 demo game up in York. I've scratch built a, Fly Class Gunboat for the Mesopotamian Front. There where a number of these purpose built Gunboats along with a variety of other weird and wonderful craft employed by the British and operating on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers during the entire course of the war. One Fly Class Gunboat was captured by the Turks in 1915 and remained in their hands until re captured by the British a couple of years later.
On the model the main 4 inch gun was kindly scratched up by Mark Hargreaves. The other stock guns supplied by HLBS.
Almost finished, save a couple of interchangeable flags and crews the Gunboat will soon be in action. Take a look at Mark’s blog page for more on this ...
http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/4-inch-naval-gun-and-crew-on-tigris.html
Photo by Mr Perry
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Top class work.
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Hi !
Superb work :-*
But i'm a little embarassed : i almost finish mine and i projected to show it in a couple of days !!!
I hope you will not be too jealous lol
But again very beautiful work :)
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"Byblos"
There is always plenty of room for lots of Gunboats in the LAF world :D
Thanks :)
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Really nice work Adrian Pasha!! :-* :-*
Lon
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A complement indeed from our USN Man In Guam :D
Thanks Lon
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Spanking
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This is truly excellent. Now do an Insect Class gunboat with two 6 inch guns or a flat bottomed river paddle steamer hospital boat! The possibilities are endless. :D
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Great stuff :)
cheers
James
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Brilliant!
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Lovely. Are you familiar with Bryan Perrett's 'Gunboat!'?
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fantastic
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Thanks :)
Lovely. Are you familiar with Bryan Perrett's 'Gunboat!'?
I've not read that one but I have ordered;Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-1917, by Wilfred Nunn.
The is a summary account of the river war at:
http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Book-NavyinMespotamia00.htm#VI
Chapter 6 recounts the capture of HM Gunboat Firefly by the Turks
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You are probably better off with that. Perrett is from what I can tel a decent enough resercher but a horrible old imperialist with some undortunate desctiptions of indigenous people.
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A little further progress with the addition of an alternative crew ....
http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/ships-company-fly-class-gunboat-2.html
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Adrian Pasha,
That is a great Turkish crew :-* :-* You are really keeping Mark busy!
Lon
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Turkish gun crews are super.
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Your turkish gun crews are absolutely fantastic :o
Very inspiring : thanks :-*
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And some RN types for the Fly Class on the Tigris can be seen here:
http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/WW1%20RN%20Crew :)
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Superb :-*
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Last Saturday's, Newbury Colours Wargames show hosted the game, billed as "Caught at Kut". After much paint and glue had been expended over the last few months it all finally and for the first time came together on one table.
Go to Overopensights for the headline battle report and some pictures
http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/
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Some pretty serious accusations of your crafts performance that are blamed on the builder over at Mr. Hargreave's blog Adrian Pasha! lol lol
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It looked great on the day 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Some pretty serious accusations of your crafts performance that are blamed on the builder over at Mr. Hargreave's blog Adrian Pasha! lol lol
Not the ship, Lon, just the four inch gun. The Coventry Works must have given it a bent barrel or a set of dodgy sights. That'll teach me to use plastic tubing instead of brass!
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Lon
He's lucky the Ottoman mine laying team didn't get close
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Adrian,
No doubt! lol I went through all of the game pictures and the mine layers were by far my favorite. That is saying something with all of the Hargreaves eye candy on display! The individual mines are quite cool in their own right. Is there any tutorial on how they were made?
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Lon
The sea mines are from Artmaster a company based in Stuttgart I got them off ebay where I see there are some available at the moment. Here is Artmaster's web page
http://www.das-kantoor.de/1.80.307.htm
I tried to get some sea mines that Shapeways advertised but this fizzled out. Trying to locate and procure from them is timely and costly.
The Turkish "mine layer" vessel itself is an abused but lovely HBLS Steam tugboat early to mid 20thC.
http://www.hlbs.co.uk/product.php?id=758
The Turks did indeed try to float sea mines down the Tigris. They also sank vessels to block the navigation. The inspiration for the Turk mine layer was, The Nusret. Nusret is a famous mine layer of the Ottoman Navy, which still exists.
The Arab Dhoa and Royal Navy Divers ( who were deployed in the campaign y o counter the Turks mines and block ships) Motor Launch are both models modified from the excellent range of boats from Barrage Miniatures. Great resin cast and very nice people to deal with.
http://www.barrageminiatures.com/31-boatsBarrage
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WoW! What a great looking game !
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A fascinating and overlooked period. It certainly looks like you've more than done it justice.
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Thanks
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If anyone would like to look there are 25 new photos of a second fight of "Caught at Kut" along with a battle report from last weekend :)
Go to Perry Miniatures Facebook Page
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Just made the trip, well worth the journey, stunning pics indeed.
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Lovely images, direct limk to album here:
https://www.facebook.com/perryminiatures/photos/?tab=album&album_id=996249600497146
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The game will be getting an outing with the 'League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers' at next weekends Vapnartak Wargames Show in York. Do drop by and say hello if you are there. Game has been played twice so far, and Turks have won both times.....
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I'll try and pop across.
Mark.
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Outstanding, love it.
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Stunning British performance yesterday at Vapnartak. First two Turkish lines taken by a flawless plan, brilliantly executed. We ran out of time in the end, but even with the Turkish 'Fire Brigade' reinforcements coming on, I think the Brits would have relieved the city, and with some room to spare. Brilliant game, designed, built and executed by 'The Beast of Bukhara'. Photographs once the plates have been developed.
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Huzzah! God Save the Empire!