Painting Progress

The ships of the Sublime Porte. The main hull sections are at the top - as you can see they are painted black. The two white sections you see are undercoated as they are a visible part of the main deck and so will be painted as such.

The Royal Navy. You can see the red layer that will be on the waterline. The black hulls need masking tape before I tackle the white ‘boot strapping’.

 I had some good news this morning in that Warbases are now on the case with my small order - I was expecting to wait another couple of weeks or so - meaning that I shall be able to get to the Royal Navy sooner rather than later. To this end I decided to increase the pace with the Turkish ships so these will be definitely finished first. The pictures illustrate the state of play so far with the lower hulls.

My plan now is to paint the Turkish ships main decks over the weekend so they will then be ready for the deck features and masts etc. 

The pieces I am waiting on from Warbases impact five of the Royal Navy models - numbers 2 until five along the bottom row from the left and also number eight. For the first four ships (2 to 5) I am waiting on the main deck whilst number eight has some bespoke pieces needed. 

For the Turks I have a number of masts already assembled but I need to see if they are of the correct dimensions first - I will tackle this once the lower hulls and main decks are as complete as they can be first of all though.

Mr Huband will no doubt be delighted at the progress being made with the Turks, Mr Fox less o with the RN!