Set Europe ablaze! - Winston Churchill

[Digits]

I’ll get you to ring him I think! Lol

For a Flack barge…I may have to scratch something as I want it to look like this?





Also Barrage minis do a German Hafenschutzboot ( harbour defence boat) so I will need one of these…….could be a good entry way for sneaky commandos….



Anyway, dock area widened makes more sense and rail line added.

[vodkafan]

I like the boat but the twin hull flak barge looks suspiciously modern to me. When I was a diver 30 years ago I dived off a twin hull dive platform very similar to this! The Dive School at Exmouth had converted it from some old thing.

[Digits]

Maybe this is a clean image….but there are plenty of examples on line mostly showing 88’s on board mind.

[carlos marighela]

There’s a chap in New Zealand who does a nice MDF harbour defence boat as well as a slew of suitable dockside buildings. Search through older threads.

At the risk of making it all too big, it would be tempting to make the U-boat pens a playable area and provide a rationale for using commandos. Plenty of photos available. I’d also go with the idea of some flak, atop the pens.

[Digits]

I will look out for it thank you.

Jamie mentioned possibly leaving the roof loose so we could play inside the pen and I’m tempted.   The issue is simply this.   

The sub I have is two and a half feet long.   Thanks to Paul (Empress), I will shortly have a printed prototype of a larger mid war design sub that never came into production for Empress which looking at the pics he sent me, looks to be just over three feet in length.

There are also parts to make a sizeable chunk of a third sub, maybe back to include the tower.

I have to restrict the depth of the pen so that it isn’t too wieldy and hard to store but also to a depth that would just cover the front section of the sub.  Also I can only realistically represent one bay in the pen, admittedly wide enough for two subs, but it wouldn’t afford much opportunity to move left and right through the pen if you get my drift.   For gaming purposes, I may well make an access door / corridor in the side wall of the pen ( roughly in line with the railway line buffer).


I envisage most of the action however to be played over the dockyard area, which I will cover with stock piles of barrels, packing crates, vehicles ( trucks) and buildings.

I’m really looking at the prospect of making a flak barge too, for interest sake most likely.

Once my next subs arrive, I will get a much better idea of how it will shape up, plus I can then get them painted to gain impetus.

I already have a list of bits to buy, including a number of Sarrissa barracks, boats, cranes, torpedos etc….so it will take a little time to complete me thinks.

[Digits]

Paul’s sub parts have arrived (cheers fella) and a quick look suggests enough parts to make two subs!  I’ll be honest…I’ve no idea what subs they represent yet, so I may have popped the wrong bits together…or they may not even make up real subs….but no problem…they will still look great for my purposes!    They sit a bit lower in the water than the proper one and are narrower (by design?) but they will fit in just right.

The sub in the middle will sit alongside the Empress boat in the open water with the front section of the back boat (including the large tower) sitting inside the pen.

Will need to clean these up a little when I can get outside, mount them on plastic art and fill the gaps with a little gs….but they are great.  Paul also popped in a couple of the metal part kits from the commercial sub so I have a deck gun for each along with net cutters, periscope etc…

[jon_1066]

The flak boat was built on a Siebel ferry.  Not sure if you can pick up a model one?  This guy has a 3D printed one in 1:72

https://www.therailroadconnection.com/products/product_ad81147d-367b-a3fa-48af-0bcfc9422244

[Digits]

Thanks…shames it’s in the US and 1/72nd though.    I may do something a little simpler anyway as this may take up too much space.    Going to concentrate on the docks and pen first then see what will fit and what is achievable.

[carlos marighela]

I suspect it would be easier just going with a Vorpostenboot. Any old trawler model, armed as you see fit.

[gamer Mac]

Great idea, subs are lovely

[Shahbahraz]

I think there's a Flak ferry available from WoW as an STL file, if you have access to a printer.

[jon_1066]

Thanks…shames it’s in the US and 1/72nd though.    I may do something a little simpler anyway as this may take up too much space.    Going to concentrate on the docks and pen first then see what will fit and what is achievable.

At 1:56 it would be about half a meter long.

[vodkafan]

I think the Hafenschutzboot will fit the purpose...you only need something armed with machine guns and a searchlight to raise the alarm basically...not something armed with enough flak cannon to kill all your Commandos in 10 seconds. 

[Digits]

You are quite possibly right fella!   

[tin shed gamer]

Quick Ebay search of 1/50 boats.
Will come up with this. They come in around £12 .