Amongst this lot I painted I now have all the ships that I need in order to do a re-fight of the Battle of the Coral Sea. Whether we actually get around to doing that is another thing, but at least the option is on the table.
The list of ship painted this session included:
- USN Carriers: Lexington and Enterprise
- USN Cruisers: Minneapolis, New Orleans, Salt Lake City & Pensacola
- USN Destroyers: 20 various destroyers
- USN Sea-plane Tender: Langley
- USN Oilers: Neosho and Tippecanoe
- IJN Carriers: Shokaku, Zuikaku and Shoho
- IJN Destroyers: 14 various destroyers
- IJN Mine-layers: Okinoshima and Tsugaru
- Cruise Ship: Orcades
Sad lad that I am, I now have 239 ships painted for the Imperial Japanese Navy, Koninklijke Marine (Dutch Navy), Kreigsmarine, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy and US Navy and can fight all of these actions with the stuff I have painted:
- Battle of the River Plate
- Battle of the Java Sea
- Battle of Sunda Strait
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- First Battle of Savo Island
- Battle of the Eastern Solomons
- Third Battle of Savo Island
- Fourth Battle of Savo Island
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
As I said, sad sad lad....
I took a lot of pictures but most of them came out pretty shoddy, here is the best of the bunch...
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| Shoho, Shokaku & Zuikaku |
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| Neosho, Tippecanoe & Orcades |
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| 14 Japanese Destroyers |
Very nice work, Paul - as always. Yes, it is time to focus on other projects now that the WAB GT is just great memory now. Thanks for the Bolt Action primer - I'm going to read through it now with a better understanding from your great game. Warm Regards, Dean
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean,
DeleteGlad to hear you had a great trip and got home safe.
Any time you are back in the UK, I'll host another game.
Paul
I love the IJN ships just never get around to doing anything about it! I have a few battleships and cruisers and tons of planes from Tamiya 1/700 as well. Do you really find a need to model the carriers or just the big gun ships and planes? Curious that's all!
ReplyDeleteHave fun,
jj
Hi Jeremy,
ReplyDeleteI don't need the carriers because all the air attacks could be worked out on paper, but it is satisfying to have all the ships for a given campaign.
I plan to use the Tumbling Dice 1/600 aircraft if I need any for the games. I've got quite a few Japanese painted already: http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/japanese-air-armada.html I'll have to get around to painting the US Navy aircraft to go with them.