A bit on organizing the project....
Using the Figurehead 1/2400 scale ships, here are the ships and the codes for each. Not perfect matches for each ship type, but as there are no manufacturers in any scale that cover each Lake Erie vessel perfectly, this list will have to do:
FN14 - 20 Gun Sloop: Detroit and Queen Charlotte
FN15 - 18 Gun Brig: General Hunter, Niagara, Lawrence, and Caledonia
FN16 - Sloop: Little Belt and Trippe
FN20 - Schooner: Lady Prevost, Chippewa, Ariel, Scorpion, Tigress, Porcupine, and Somers
FN15 - 18 Gun Brig: General Hunter, Niagara, Lawrence, and Caledonia
FN16 - Sloop: Little Belt and Trippe
FN20 - Schooner: Lady Prevost, Chippewa, Ariel, Scorpion, Tigress, Porcupine, and Somers
Some obvious issues arise: The General Hunter and Caledonia, while of brig configuration, are certainly not brigs of the same size as the 18 gun brigs. Also, I am using cutters for the two small sloops.
Next steps are priming then painting the ships, then finding some sort of glue that will not cause frosting on the plastic bases.
Half way down here you can see my reconstruction of the battle of Lake Erie (Put-in-bay)
ReplyDeletehttps://meeples.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/hereward-wargames-show-games-in-pictures/
This is at 1/300 scale. The models are by War Artizan.
Those are some nice ships. I believe they are paper? What is Northern Moat? Looks like something I might need to pick up. I also like the fact that the rules you are using require the ships to be in two hexes, as that is what Wooden Ships & Iron Men require.
DeleteVery nice Darryl. I'm very interested in this period but in,28mm.
ReplyDelete28mm would make for some large boats, Hal!
Delete