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WW1 & RCW Projects : naval thingsFirst , let me beg your pardon for my bad english language : i hope you will understand me as much as possible !
Then : Small presentation of the naval side of my WW1 and RCW projects
My
WW1 project is centered on the Mesopotamian campaign …
My
RCW project is centered on 3 axes : 1)
The Komuch (and Kappel brigade) 2)
Transcaspia (Turcomans , British , Turks , White & Bolos) and 3)
Tranbaïkalie (Semenov , Kalmykov , Ungern & cie)
(And an option is the Freikorps vs Bolos or Baltic nationalists : I have collected a lot of german troops these last years)
For
WW1 , I only need my Fly class Gunboat wich is done , I will paint a crew later …
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=37790.0For RCW :Komuch => Volgas flotillas : 1 or 2 gunboats , 1 armed or not Tug , 1 or 2 artillery barges . I can possibly add 1 or 2 old torpedo boats like Bolshevick’s “Ilim” …
For the Gunboats , I will use my already done Reviresco “Waterwitch” : I will remove the old artillery and replace it by modern artillery , combination of 3 Inch / 12 Pdr and MGs … Maybe I will build another “Waterwitch” gunboat because it’s a lovely ship …
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=86597.0
For the Tug , I think about buy the “HLBS” model , wich is of reasonable price , and detailed it …
For the barges they are not very difficult to make them myself , so they will be scratchbuilt ! I think about one little (With 3 or 4 Inch guns ) and one big with 5 or 6 Inch guns …
For the old torpedo boats it’s another affair , see the “Big ships” section ;-)
Transcaspia => A big project ! The naval side of the project is centered around Baku or Khabarovsk , and we speak about naval support or simply a fixed decoration (An harbor and some ships , some of them with guns could support fighting troops surroundings ) . I could use my “Waterwitch” , my “Minos” freighter , but I could add gunboat(s) , tug(s) , and some “big ships” (see this section)
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=88918.0Transbaïkalie => Lake Baïkal , Amur river & cie … Here I would “only” make 1 or 2 scratchbuilt “Siberian” gunboats : I choose the “Vogul” gunboat class . I could used artillery barges and tugs too …
“Vogul” Gunboat : 180 X 30 feet (Model : 2.8 X 0.5 feet) / 2 X 4.7 Inch (120mm) guns / 4 MGs
Note that barges could be used as objectives too (with barrels of oil , ammunitions etc … ) or for transporting troops on all theather …
The “Big Ships” :This is totally superflu therefore absolutely indispensable for a passionné of naval thing like me ;-)
They could be used as a naval support or fixed decoration …
My idea is : 1 or 2 old torpedo boats , 1 or 2 destroyers and , maybe , 1 light cruiser …
Rather Russians , but generic is OK for me …
For the Torpedo boats (old destroyers with round conning tower beneath main gun platform , lengh of 150 feet / 45 m maximum , and main artillery of 3 Inch / 12 Pdr / 75mm gun(s) ) , I choose a Puilky class (1898 – 1902) . This will be 3 feet / 90 cm long model. Note that some of them (Abo or Dago class) had torpedo tubes removed and act as riverine destroyers during the RCW !
For the destroyers (bigger than TB , main artillery could be 3 or 4 Inch guns , one or 2 deckhouse(s) : one aft and one fore) , I would like to built one Gaïdamak class (1904-05) and one Okhotnik class (1905) . This will be 3.5 feet / 110 cm long models.
Gaïdamak class :
“Amurets”
Okhotnik class :
“General Kondratenko”
“Pogranichnik”
A little video about “Okhotnik” class :http://worldofwarships.eu/fr/news/videos/1-42-Kondratenko/The light cruiser is “only” a project , I couldn’t promise to build one , one reason will be his length : 5 feet / 150 cm even more maybe ! But if the Torpedo boats and Destroyers are built and OK , then …
The light cruiser will be a generic one : light artillery , continuous deck , one deck house , 2 or 3 hight funnels , 2 or 3 hight masts …
I beg you to be patient , because these projects were going to take me a lot of time (and space and money , wich I have got little of both ) and i would like to work on my Medieval and Sengoku Jidaï projects too … and to paint a lot of minies ( Ship’s crews included , some of them modified minies) ;-)
Materials : a lot of scratchbuilt materials , and bitz from
The Virtual Armchair General , HLBS and Reviresco !
Sources :Osprey (Ex : British destroyers 1892 – 1918 )
Jane’s fighting ships of WW1
Conway’s all the world’s fighting ships 1860-1905
“Tigris gunboats” W. Nunn
Some web sites
“White water , Red tide” rules
January 20, 2011, 09:18:21 AM
