{"id":5970,"date":"2015-10-25T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2016-09-17T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:51:22","slug":"jutland-aeronef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/jutland-aeronef\/","title":{"rendered":"Jutland Aeronef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My contribution to the recent Jutland Aeronef refight<\/a> was a division of German battleships – specifically the 5th Division of the 3rd Battle Squadron, consisting of the SMS Koenig, Grosser Kurfurst, Kronprinz and Markgraf. Since we had pretty much free reign over what models we used, as long as they looked the part (there were some heavily modified Russian Borodinos<\/a> as part of the German fleet !) I chose to use some of our Prussian ships, the Konigsberg<\/a> and Manteuffel<\/a>, modifying and painting two of each. I also painted two von Dobschutz<\/a> cruisers and four Wavre<\/a> frigates, although in the end they didn’t make the table. <\/p>\n

I’ve always been very impressed by the conversion work that Jon Rogers did on his US and Japanese fleets for his Pacific Aeronef<\/a> game, with additional turrets, funnels, masts and rigging, and wanted to attempt something similar. To this end, I created a bunch of turrets, new funnels, masts, AA guns, searchlights and ventilators and ships boats as 3D models and had them printed by Shapeways<\/a>. As is always the way, these then sat in a box for months until I finally got round to starting the build !<\/p>\n

The first job was a quick cleanup of the casts, removing any flash – the Prussian models are pretty clean casts and this didn’t take long. The next job was to remove all of the funnels on the larger vessels, as these were to be replaced by new plastic ones. I then turned the models over and superglued a washer underneath – the models were to be ‘flown’ on magnetic flight stands so they needed the steel washer as an attachment.<\/p>\n