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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: Yarkshire Gamer on November 06, 2015, 06:06:57 PM
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http://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/12400-ww1-wtj-naval-from-box-to-table.html (http://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/12400-ww1-wtj-naval-from-box-to-table.html)
Welcome all,
Its been a while since I have been active on the old blog, not that my gaming activity has stopped though.
Here we have one of my box to table tutorials describing the process of getting some of the excellent WTJ ships from bare material (whatever it is !) to a point where it's ready to game with. I have included some GHQ stuff for comparison with the end product.
Hopefully of use to some, regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer
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Very nice.
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Thanks for showing the WTJ ships - I always wondered how good the detail was on those and your pics really show it!
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I love the WTJ predreadnoughts and destroyers. They're the only ones to make the variants of the L and M class destroyers. They and Panzerschiffe are also the only ones to make many of the necessary predreadnoughts for the Germans. I loved their Braunschweig class pre-dreadnoughts. I haven't bought any of their light cruisers yet, but, again, they do look quite spiffy. You have to scratch build your own masts (I use flower wire), but for the Germans at least, that looks fine. You have to replace the GHQ pole masts anyway - they're too flimsy.
I also have their Koing Albert, and that's where I am dissatisfied. Her turrets and turret barrels cast as one piece resin with the model. Unlike the PDNs, where the great guns are cast in the plastic as well, there's flash under Koing Albert's 12". It's giving me fits properly painting them, so she languishes on the painting shelf.
Very nice work on the bases there!