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Showing posts with label Ancient Naval. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancient Naval. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

First Experimental Battles - Triremes

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Ok the kit (or certainly enough kit) has been painted and placed on the table = but how to play? (see below, "Red" Spartan trireme...
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Monday, 3 October 2022

1/1200 Navwar Triremes - Greece in Peril [Again]

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I tend to cycle round in my 'catholic' (as in disparate and varied rather than religious) wargaming interests and it is about time I...
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Friday, 16 September 2022

Ancient Naval Siege - Syracuse 414BC

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I seem to be on a Worthington's Games blast at the moment. If it is not the addictive solitaire books then it is their delightful titles...
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Monday, 29 August 2022

Discoveries in a Bookshop - British Recognition Plates (late 19th Century to WWII) and a Trireme Book

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There is always something to be found in a bookshop, the more rambling the better and I particularly like the buzz you can get when you come...
Friday, 3 January 2020

This is where my "love" of Naval Started, blame it on Paul Hague

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Take me back thirty eight years to the tender age of 13 or 14 and I read this book from my local library cover to cover several times over. ...
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Thursday, 30 November 2017

Ancient Naval Musings: Academic Trireme Simulation Proposal

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This blew my tiny little mind from the Rams Ravens and Wrecks blog: http://ramsravensandwrecks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/research-proposal-di...
Wednesday, 18 January 2017

The "White Fleet" of Corinth

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Keeping forward momentum going on this project, a fresh order of Navwar triremes are being fitted out. Nomiated as the "White Fleet...
Sunday, 15 January 2017

Trireme XI ... Varnish .. and finished (or am I?)

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Protection, Protection, Protection! A shiny Humbrol "Gloss Cote" is applied (see below): Protected but I would clearly say to...
Saturday, 14 January 2017

Trireme X ... WIP ... Oar and Bow/Stern white-tips

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All ship, boats and even rafts make wave crests or white-tops, a touch of Vallejo Game Colour Off-White serves to so the trick (see below): ...
Friday, 13 January 2017

Trireme IX ... WIP ... Sea and Wavetops

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The sea base has already been primed in "shade" of Vallejo Game Colour Imperial Blue (72020). To this a wet-brushed "base...
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Thursday, 12 January 2017

Trireme VIII ... WIP ... The "Blue" Fleet of Athens

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To combat Sparta's "Red" Fleet the Athenian naval prowess is shown in the "Blue" Fleet of Imperial Athens (see below...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Triremes VII ... WIP ... The "Red" Fleet of Sparta

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The plan is to initially compose two fleets of ten triremes apiece to test out the various rule systems I have accumulated, starting out wit...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Triremes VI ... WIP ... "The Eyes Have It"

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Am I crazy, paint "eyes" on a 1/1200 scale trireme, well they are distinctive but "blow me" they are small ... from six ...
Monday, 9 January 2017

Triremes V ... WIP ... Last Wood Highlight

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Last Highlights: Vallejo Game Colour Plague Brown mixed with Vallejo Game Colour Off-White, then with a final sparing touch of Off-White (s...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017

Trireme's IV ... WIP ... "Brown Washed"

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The Vallejo Game Colour Plague Brown paint was barely dry before the Vallejo Burnt Umber Wash hit these Greek wooden walls. It may seem a pe...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

Trireme III ... WIP ... Base "Highlighting" (Plague Brown) Complete

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Now the fleet is looking a little bit more uniform (see below): Next Step: Needs a "brown wash" to calm things (aka the wood...
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Friday, 6 January 2017

Forward Progress II .. Ancient Triremes Continued

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Carrying on with the good work, just twenty minutes before bedtime and I got another five triremes done on the "Plague Brown" wet-...
Thursday, 5 January 2017

Forward progress with the Ancient Triremes

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I am going to push forward this project "a little bit a day" until it is finished. Finished ships to the left hand side, ships thr...
Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Ancient Naval Rules circa Salamis .. "Bring out your triremes"

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Drawn by a long, long term interest in replaying the Battle of Salamis and a fifteen year unfinished project of wargaming "The Greeks i...
Monday, 31 October 2016

Thoughts on Naval Map Moves

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I am still reading Peter Perla's "Art of Wargaming" (slow but enjoyable progress as I generally get to read only five mins in ...