Sunday, 17 February 2019

28mm Frigate Update - Work in Progress

I have been away most of the week for work so have not made much progress on either painting or ship building!

Here are a few images of most recent advances on the 28mm Royal Navy frigate I am working on ….

Here is the basic frame 

A view from above

Dry run through assembly showing the three masts
Detail of the rear captains cabin windows I added this evening.

As you can see from the last image, I have put a lot of the constituent parts together now - including gluing both hull sides into place. As mentioned, I have cut a line of gun ports along the hull, 15 per side I think, plus 5 per side on the upper deck, making this a 40 gun frigate! I am toying with the idea of buying genuine model ship guns from a British supplier but I may just end up using dowel for the ones poking out of the hull gun ports...….



8 comments:

  1. That’s Shipping up nicely Kieth...

    All the best. Aly

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  2. Thank you Iain....will get it finished one day I hope!

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  3. Another promising addition Keith. A question does however come to mind however; where are you going to find a space big enough to play a game with them? Especially if you keep turning them out at this rate. Lovely stuff!

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  4. Thank you Lawrence - the ship is only ever going to be a support option for specific scenarios such as Hornbloweresque adventures in the Iberian Peninsula or dastardly destructive British landings in Chesapeake in the War of 1812!

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  5. Looks very impressive already Ross.

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  6. Thanks Ray - I have done some more bits and pieces on it this week but still a long way to go!

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