Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

A very good friend sent me some WW1 ships  he did not need, and all of which appear to have rather chequered histories.  I had a spare hour and painted them up. No idea where I will use  them, but a nice starting set of research, it's not really a fair match up at the moment! HMS Campania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Campania_(1914 ) HMS Fearless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Fearless_(1912 ) SMS Scharnhorst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Scharnhorst SMS Helgoland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Helgoland_(1909 ) HMS Campania and HMS Fearless SMS Helgoland and SMS Scharnhorst

With the advent of lockdown, Simon Elliot and I started playing remote games. Initially ancients land battles, but after a conversation, I mentioned I could do WW2 naval games as a remote game, and Simon jumped at the chance (something about being a naval historian and an ex editor of Jane's). This has led to many fun North Atlantic games, and now it is time to expand our theatre of operations into the Mediterrainean. Easy enough, a few extra British ships here and there, but we needed an opposition. Scanning round, Ebay was not producuing anything of interest, but I put Davco in as a random search as I remembered figure manufactures from my youth, and found they are now owned by Navy Models and Books . An order was placed and a fleet pack arrived. To finish off the capital ships for my Italians, four battleships. Andrea Doria and Ciao Duilio Camo Vittoria Venito and Littorio They do have dazzle camo, honest! Meet these four together and it's a bad day! More Italians done Thr...

More Mediterrainian flavoured ships added to the British fleet. HMS Berwick with her huge hanger bay. HMS Gloucester, HMS Manchester, HMS Southampton, HMS Liverpool, HMS Birmingham (that gives me 7 out of the 8 Southampton class cruisers, but they saw a lot of action in the med) Quite a force, need extra storage for all these... Top view Black and white view, somewhat atmospheric. HMS Newcastle HMS Neptune - which means I own all the Leanders now... Eight! G/H/I Class destroyers HMS Hunter, HMS Havock, HMS Hasty, HMS Hardy, HMS Hero, HMS Hyperion, HMS Ilex, HMS Hotspur Two Flower class corvettes - HMS Rhododendron and HMS Hyderabad Just to show how small these are, here they are next to HMS Newcastle Another batch of British done. HMS Martin and HMS Legion HMS Royal Soveriegn HMAS Sydney , HMAS Hobart and HMS Perth HMNZS Leander and HMS Orion Told you so... Davco , via Navy Models & Books, providing great service in these weird times. First up, two venerable Town class destroyer...