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The first contingent of my Prussian Empire aerial forces are a pair of Pflicht Class Scoutships.
Prussian Empire engineers love the classic zeppelin shape and have made extensive use of the gas powered blimp shape throughout the military.
In the end, in order to undercoat and paint them I used a couple of spare Citadel flying bases.
After giving the models a white undercoat, I gave them a basecoat of a light grey.
Still not 100% sure how I am going to finish painting these.
This set contains three medium-sized hangers, two zeppelin towers and one communications building. I gave all the models an undercoat of Citadel Skull White spray. For the hangars I gave them a base coat of Vallejo German Dark Camo (979).
The Airship towers and the radar tower were given a basecoat of light grey.
The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. The Prussian Frigate is a simple ship with a single turret and aft Tesla weapons.
Having given the models a wash of Citadel Shade: Nuln Oil, I then gave them a light drybrush.
I think if I was to paint them again, I might paint the decks a tan colour so that it looked like wood.
As you can see from this photograph, there is still some touching up to do, where they were glued to the stick.
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Having washed the decks of the Prussian Empire Blucher Class Dreadnought the next stage was to give he rest of the model and hull a wash of Citadel Shade: Nuln Oil.
After that I gave the model a light drybrush.
This is the Prussian Empire Blucher Class Dreadnought alongside two Arminius Class Frigates.
Pleased with how the model turned out. It still could do with some more detailing and markings, but at this time I can certainly use this in a game.
The Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games. The Prussian Frigate is a simple ship with a single turret and aft Tesla weapons. Squadrons of Frigates are often used to screen larger ships, combine their fire against enemy ships, and sometimes chase down vessels that have submerged below the ocean waves.
There are six models in all, and they come in a blister pack. The first stage was washing the resin models and giving them a white undercoat and gluing them to wooden sticks (for easier painting).
I then gave them a basecoat of slightly thinned Tamiya Grey.
The next stage was to give the models a wash of Citadel Shade: Nuln Oil. This was to both darken the model and add shade and shadows.
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Having finished painting my Kingdom of Britannia Naval Battle Group I started to think about reinforcements. I already have on the workbench quite a few flyers, but what I decided I needed more naval vessels, well maybe one more naval vessel.
I initially considered getting some more Tribal Cruisers, but in the end went with a second Ruler Class Battleship.
The Britannia Battleship is the pride of Queen Victoria’s navy, a reliable and hardy workhorse that has fought in many battles across the globe. It has a fearsome array of torpedo tubes, allowing it to fire at surface and submerged targets within three firing arcs, and four main turrets. This Battleship also has the option of replacing up to two turrets with Shield Generators, which can sometimes make all the difference in negating the attacks of other craft while the Battleship pounds its enemies with shells.
I am in the process of naming my Dystopian Wars ships. My original Ruler Class Battleship was named King Richard III and in a similar spirit of choosing a King with a slighted or disreuptable reputation. I have considered two names, King George III and King John. In the end I think I may go with King John, just because George III and Richard III are both “thirds”.
The Olympic Liner is one of the largest passenger ships ever created, these impressive vessels have carried people over the seas in style since 1861.
Having washed the resin model I affixed the metal masts. This was quite challenging as they need to be leaning in a particular direction and the “hole” is quite small.
After giving the models a white undercoat, I painted the superstructure with Vallejo Ivory (918). Not sure at this point about how to paint the windows.
The hull was given a basecoat of Citadel Chaos Black, I wasn’t very neat!
Painting the decks of my Prussian Blucher Class Dreadnought for the Dystopian Wars reminded me why I never liked making Airfix ship models as a kid and why I don’t usually play naval wargames in the first place! Painting ships is really fiddly, especially the decks!
I painted the decks with Vallejo Tan Yellow (912).
The next stage was to give the decks a wash of Citadel Shade: Agrax Earthshade.
I did wonder if I ought to add any metallic, as in copper or bronze parts to the model. The stats for the model include the Tesla Coils and there is the prow of the ship too. Or do I keep it more traditional naval, in both colour and appearance? If you look at the marketing picture for the model, it is quite “normal” in appearance with minimal shiny bits!
This set contains three medium-sized hangers, two zeppelin towers and one communications building.
This was very much one of those impulse buys, saw it, decided to get a blister, rather than buy something else, or something useful. I was inspired recently by those Dystopian Wars pictures that I posted to the blog.
You get two very nice looking airship towers. These are stone and steel towers that can be used to moor your airships, so perfect for the Prussians.
You also get a radar tower.
Not sure if they would have radar, even in a technologically advanced Victorian society, as we find in the Dystopian Wars, but then again, there is this model.
In the blister are also three aircraft hangars, big enough for fighters, but too small for the big bombers you can get.
As with virtually all Dystopian Wars castings these are very clean and no flash.
In my last game of Dystopian Wars, Simon suggested that I name my ships, partly to differentiate them during the game, but also to give them character.
For the Kingdom of Britannia ships I am thinking that for the frigates I will name them after areas of Bristol. HMS Clifton, HMS Withywood and so on. I can imagine that they were built in the Bristol docks, the same docks that Brunel built the SS Great Britain. There are nine models, so I need nine areas of Bristol.
For the cruisers, which are Tribal class I will follow the Royal Navy tradition and name them after tribes. As there are three, they will be HMS Nubian, HMS Ashanti and HMS Zulu. The battleship will be the HMS King Richard III.
I also need to name my Prussian ships, this I think will be a little more challenging.