Finished my galley fleets - just hexed my sea

[seldon]

insanely fantastic...!

[Dr. The Viking]

That's a lot of ships  

Wrong scale though (they need to be 28mm)  

cheers

James

Wrong side of £700 too!!!    


On another note: What an absolutely fascinating blog you have!

I cannot begin to grasp how you find the time to paint all those figures. Do you have instructions somewhere?! I would like to learn how to paint big units like that,... I always end up fiddling around with details. 

[olicana]

I did do a few 'how I do' posts on stuff. Mostly they are are under the modelling and conversions label which needs renaming. Here are two:

http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/painting-with-enamels.html

http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/something-for-dessert-how-i-paint-ww2.html

I pretty much paint everything with the same technique except I rarely use washes or dry brushing on 28mm figures.

[olicana]

I've just posted a short battle report on the Actium scenario played here on Wednesday. Also, something about mad ideas.

http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ill-put-hex-on-you.html

[von Lucky]

I envy you, even the "...this is going to take me ages" bit.

[olicana]

I've just finished drawing hexes on my playing surface, well most of it. I've recently ordered GMT's War Galley board game and plan on running some table & miniatures games using the rules. Hexes will also, hopefully, help spawn some new home spun rules.



I've done the basic table (12 x 6) with about 1,450 hexes. I still have the drop leaf table extension (2' 8" x 6') but, frankly, this was the most mind numbing chore I've undertaken in ages, so I'm putting the hex template aside until I need to do it - a 12' x 6' space will do for most scenarios I'm planning.

[AndrewBeasley]

...
I've done the basic table (12 x 6) with about 1,450 hexes...

You sir are either mad or a war gamer 

Must say though the result must look great from the sample shown - green with envy as the most I did was just under 3x2!