Sun Apr 18 - Coal Creek Battle

After the last battle I realized that I really like my bow gun. So I have decided to stick with a bow gun and dual sterns. I have already orders three cannons from strikemodels. Hopefully he wont jerk me around and get them to me in a timly fashion.

Hovey,

what is the status on your bath tubs you want us to build for the May battle?

Do we want to think of some design for a harbor we can put them in?

 

I have just starded on the plugs but they shouldn't take very long. I want to have them ready to hand out at the may battle so we can try them out in june. I was thinking more of a convoy battle than a harbor to start but we can certainly try all sorts of things.

 

Sounds good. If they are just bath tubs with no motor and only a pump how are we going to do convoys?

 

That sounds more like a harbor situation.

 

This isn't going to be convoy ships running around since we don't have the captains. At some point I would like to be able to have convoy runs but we aren't there yet. So in the name of what can we do the convoy ships aka "bath tubs" will be set at anchor off shore some ways. Per US war time doctrine, ships would be spread out a half mile or more apart which to scale works out to around 18'. That is probably a bit too far apart for us. As to whether this is a harbor attack or not that depends on how you view the shore line. To scale a harbor/anchorage would look a lot like coal creek or swan creek. But really a convoy in port is still a convoy. What I do not want to see is ships bunched so close together that there is no room to maneuver around or through them. Lets try to get the basic parts working first, then lets build on that for more complex scenarios.

 

Those are beautiful pictures!!

 

Another beautiful picture. I agree with the superstructer on the water.

 

not yet but he did ship them so maybe today or tomorrow.

 

I got this latex paint. It sucks though. Everytime I take the turrets off and on paint chips off. I was thinking about acrylic. I just got the cannons. They were in the mail today. I was thinking about black primer and thats it.