Kut Al Amara 1916

[marianas_gamer]

Adrian Pasha,
That is a great Turkish crew You are really keeping Mark busy!
Lon

[juergen c. olk]

Turkish gun crews are super.

[Byblos]

Your turkish gun crews are absolutely fantastic 

Very inspiring : thanks 

[Over Open Sights]

And some RN types for the Fly Class on the Tigris can be seen here:
http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/WW1%20RN%20Crew 

[Byblos]

Superb 

[Beast of Bukhara]

Last Saturday's, Newbury Colours Wargames show hosted the game, billed as "Caught at Kut". After much paint and glue had been expended over the last few months it all finally and for the first time came together on one table.

Go to Overopensights for the headline battle report and some pictures

http://over-open-sights.blogspot.co.uk/

[marianas_gamer]

Some pretty serious accusations of your crafts performance that are blamed on the builder over at Mr. Hargreave's blog Adrian Pasha!

[OSHIROmodels]

It looked great on the day 

cheers

James

[Over Open Sights]

Some pretty serious accusations of your crafts performance that are blamed on the builder over at Mr. Hargreave's blog Adrian Pasha!

Not the ship, Lon, just the four inch gun. The Coventry Works must have given it a bent barrel or a set of dodgy sights. That'll teach me to use plastic tubing instead of brass!

[Beast of Bukhara]

Lon

He's lucky the Ottoman mine laying team didn't get close

[marianas_gamer]

Adrian,
No doubt! I went through all of the game pictures and the mine layers were by far my favorite. That is saying something with all of the Hargreaves eye candy on display! The individual mines are quite cool in their own right. Is there any tutorial on how they were made?

[Beast of Bukhara]

Lon

The sea mines are from Artmaster a company based in Stuttgart I got them off ebay where I see there are some available at the moment. Here is Artmaster's  web page

http://www.das-kantoor.de/1.80.307.htm

I tried to get some sea mines that Shapeways advertised but this fizzled out. Trying to locate and procure from them is timely and costly.

The Turkish "mine layer" vessel itself is an abused but lovely HBLS Steam tugboat early to mid 20thC.

http://www.hlbs.co.uk/product.php?id=758

The Turks did indeed try to float sea mines down the Tigris. They also sank vessels to block the navigation. The inspiration for the Turk mine layer was, The Nusret.  Nusret is a famous mine layer of the Ottoman Navy, which still exists. 

The Arab Dhoa and Royal Navy Divers ( who were deployed in the campaign y o counter the Turks mines and block ships) Motor Launch are both models modified from the excellent range of boats from Barrage Miniatures. Great resin cast and very nice people to deal with.

 http://www.barrageminiatures.com/31-boatsBarrage  

[juergen c. olk]

WoW! What a great looking game !

[Hobbit]

A fascinating and overlooked period. It certainly looks like you've more than done it justice.

[Beast of Bukhara]

Thanks