Volunteer
02-24-2013, 15:32
Gunner was kind enough to sell me 10 of his unused NavWar and Devco 1:1200 ships. I received them in good time last Friday, thank you Gunner! ( I wish there was a 'Good Trader' button on this ship so I could push it for you.)
After looking through the ships I decided on the 3rd rate Dutch SOL Revolutie. The Revolutie was a Dutch 3rd rate ship of the line carrying a nominal 68 carriage guns. It was launched June 15th, 1779 at Rotterdam. It was captured by the British on August 17th, 1796 and renamed the HMS Prince Frederick.
Wow, what a difference with these ships. It took way more work than I had anticipated to get a decent model that would go on the table with my Langton and GHQ ships. Everything I had to do is layed out on my blogsite http://volsminiatures.blogspot.com/.
Here are some photos of the result:
2057
2058
Here is a comparison shot with Langton's HMS Glatton:
2059
So I'm happy with the way it turned out and I plan to build the rest of them......eventually!
After looking through the ships I decided on the 3rd rate Dutch SOL Revolutie. The Revolutie was a Dutch 3rd rate ship of the line carrying a nominal 68 carriage guns. It was launched June 15th, 1779 at Rotterdam. It was captured by the British on August 17th, 1796 and renamed the HMS Prince Frederick.
Wow, what a difference with these ships. It took way more work than I had anticipated to get a decent model that would go on the table with my Langton and GHQ ships. Everything I had to do is layed out on my blogsite http://volsminiatures.blogspot.com/.
Here are some photos of the result:
2057
2058
Here is a comparison shot with Langton's HMS Glatton:
2059
So I'm happy with the way it turned out and I plan to build the rest of them......eventually!