One of the pleasures of running my WW1 naval game last year was getting to know Thomas Brandsetter, who has recently published his rules for coastal naval battles in WW2, Torpedoes and Tides, which can be found on Wargames Vault.
I needed some boats, so my dear friend Trish, the genius behind 4P Press, pointed me towards some STL files on Thingverse. Just do a search there for Cruel Seas and you'll find lots, all scaled in 1/300 for the Warlord rules. For the core of my British force I printed and painted five Fairmiles, three MTBs and two MGBs. The hulls are all in one piece a printed clearly on my Bambu filament printer. The guns were a little more fiddly but look ok from a distance.
The masts are made of copper wire and the Red Ensigns ship in Skytrex Cruel Seas kits, of which I bought several.
To oppose them, a quartet of menacing Kriegsmarine E-boats, two S-100 and two S-38 boats, all Skytrex plastic kits. They assembled cleanly, though I had to go online to various blogs to see how the parts went together. Skytrex evidently thinks that these things are self-explanatory and don't require instructions.
They all look quite good on the Geek Villain naval mat. I'm quite happy with GV products.
Next up in the shipyards is a Bangor-class RN minesweeper, a resin kit, nicely detailed.
I hope to have a first playthrough to report on soon.
Cheers and blessings to your brushes!
MP+
