Shades of Blue and Basing

Original bases on the right with the newer on the left. I am much happier with the new colour!

Those Wonderful WoFun people have done it again! You may recall that when my Tsushima fleet pack arrived - with the bases - that I had an issue with some of them being way too small for the ship. A fair number of destroyer bases and a few cruisers were short by as much as a centimetre. I duly contacted WoFun who were happy to replace them with the suggested size I wanted which was extremely good of them to do so. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the bases arrived yesterday morning and not only had they replaced the incorrectly sized version but also the entire fleet set and the shell splash, fire and explosion markers. 

I was very pleased with this, thinking at the time what would I do with the excess bases, when I realised why they had done this. The sea colour had changed from tropical to more of a blue water colour.

I spent an hour or so swapping the bases over and fixing the ships in place with a touch of glue and merely have the nine Russian destroyers left to finish the job. I am going to stick with the bases supplied but I will certainly look to edge them as the brown of the laser cut MDF looks plain wrong as sea. In the interests of speed I may just go over the edges with a suitably coloured permanent marker although I have yet to decide what colour would look best.

I have also made a list of the ships included on a sprue by sprue basis. The list will also include the ship type, what formation they were in for the actual battle itself and any other pertinent notes. 

The full review will take place once I have sorted the models into their respective formations and yes, there will be plenty of pictures.

The Great War

I also went through the selection of Tumbling Dice 1:2400th scale models I have for the projected Madasahatta/East African/Arabian Peninsula naval campaign - there are a few models I will need to add for this but surprisingly not that many - with a view to getting the bases ordered from Warbases. Once I have these I can organise the models needed for Coronel/Falklands although the temptation to do something with the Goeben and Breslau in the Black Sea is gnawing away at my conscience!