Kut Al Amara 1916

[Beast of Bukhara]

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

[Phil Robinson]

Top class work.

[Byblos]

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 

But again very beautiful work 

[Beast of Bukhara]

"Byblos"

There is always plenty of room for lots of Gunboats in the LAF world 

Thanks

[marianas_gamer]

Really nice work Adrian Pasha!!
Lon

[Beast of Bukhara]

A complement indeed from our USN Man In Guam

Thanks Lon

[smirnoff]

Spanking

[Over Open Sights]

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. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff 

cheers

James

[Sparrow]

Brilliant!

[Hammers]

Lovely. Are you familiar with Bryan Perrett's 'Gunboat!'?

[Bryanbowdell]

fantastic

[Beast of Bukhara]

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

[Hammers]

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.

[Beast of Bukhara]

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