My fleet of gunboats continues to increase with this latest addition. Looking at my collection, eight are renditions of original tin toys made during the period 1860-1910. I have also completed two for my Soviet WW2 collection. I now wanted something more suitable to cover the colonial powers during 1910-1950, including the Americans and the Japanese.
This ship is not based on any particular vessel, or original toy. It is meant to be generic, and not too heavily armed. I think it will do the job. All my vessels have a socket for changing the flag.
MGB
A beautifully generic vessel Michael! Perfect for any "gunboat diplomacy" scenario! Especially with the changeable flag option, brilliant!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brad, I doubt it cost £1 to launch, and mainly on paint. But it adds so much to the general appearance of the tabletop game.
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Nice ! , you have to 'fudge' the scales when using 54mm I think - if it looks right - it is right !
ReplyDeleteHi Tony. It's what drew me to the Lone Star 'Modern Army' range. The vehicles were probably about 1/40 in scale, but the seated figures gave the impression it was larger, as did their heavy weapons. And they were designed to work with their range of 1950s soldiers, which were small 1/32. It was a very clever idea.
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Wonderful stuff! 'Cartoon' scale is the way to go for this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteCheers Tim. In my childhood I loved looking at photos of medieval books showing sieges etc, I now realise that they followed this rule. A Saracen bowman would poke out his head from a window in a tower, but only the window was in scale, the tower was narrow, totally out of scale. But it worked!
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Michael