1:1200 Anglo-Dutch Wars (Mike's Leadpile)

[warrenpeace]

Noticed a thread on TMP about Mike's Leadpile at blogspot and his recent project of putting together, rigging, and painting tiny ships in 1:1200 scale from Langton for Anglo-Dutch Wars. The detail, rigging, and paintwork are astounding. Thought a few of you might want to take a look:

http://mikes-lead.blogspot.com/search/label/Anglo-Dutch%20Wars

The TMP thread has some larger pictures of the two most recent ship models:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=248332

[Golgotha]

Gosh they put many 25mm ships to shame.

[carlos marighela]

Stop it! I received the Osprey on the Anglo-Dutch wars as a freebie not long ago, courtesy of the nice chaps at Osprey. I've long been looking at doing the ships. I must and I will resist.

Very nice work on the models.

[Kingscarbine]

  Those are way cool... I would love to have some of those for the late 16th c.

[warrenpeace]

Would be kind of nice to have some beautiful little ships like this to handle the maneuver and ranged cannon fire before the piratical types grapple and board. Once that happens put the 25/28mm figures and ships on the table. I wonder if Mike got the bases from Langton. Didn't find any answer to that on the TMP thread or in his blog. Maybe I didn't look close enough though...

[carlos marighela]

You can go seriously nuts putting these things together, painting rigging and basing them. I once shared a house with a bloke who had an exquisite and enormous collection of GHQ and Navwar and Langton Napoleonic ships. The again he also had both fleets for Jutland in the same scale. I suspect he was mad to start with.

[Aaron]

Those do look like the Langton sea bases. I've had a go at making my own with the wet tissue on plasticard method, but honestly didn't find it worth the extra hassle.