Still in the grip of my coastal forces (perhaps costly forces would be a better term) enthusiasm and I've just finished a scruffy little ship to act as an escort to some merchants and maybe give the E-boats pause for thought.
This 1/300 scale kit from the Skytrex/Warlord Cruel Seas kit comes as a resin hull with about half a dozen metal bits.
I might have overdone it with the rust effects. I used AK rust paint, simply painting on a small dot or blob and then smearing it with an old brush or finger. The effect makes her look like a proper tramp, though I would think if I was an admiral, I'd want my sweepers out doing the work and not lying around chipping paint.
The penant number, J260, is from a Bangor class minesweeper operated by the Royal Canadian Navy, the HMCS Goderich. She spent her career mostly based out of Halifax, NS, as part of the Western Escort Force, so unlikely that she would have come close to an S Boat, but Goderich is a pleasant Ontario town and why not use the name. I could have painted her in the grey and blue Western Approaches pattern used in the Atlantic, but liked a scruffy grey.
As far as I could see, there are no stats for the Bangor class ships in Torpedoes and Tides, but shouldn't be too hard to invent something.
Next in the dockyards is another Skytrex kit, a German minelayer, so wouldn't it be something if these two were to run into one another some dark night?
Cheers and blessings to your brushes,
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Great job, I like the lived-in look, it certainly has seen action! The stats for the Bangor class are hidden under the Flower class, as TnT uses the same stats - at that level of abstraction, many ships classes share the same stats. They are always noted in bold letters under the more common class (I admit that's not the best way to do it, I should have made an index).
ReplyDeleteI like this very much Mike, though I am not so sure the captain or indeed his superiors would allow a vessel of His Majesty's Royal Navy to fall to such a shoddy appearance. LOL
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