What's on your workbench?

[Purple]

The table is being erected ready for this weekends commencement of AYTON19s first terrain mat...

[Jeremy]

Good man!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Eight 1:700 E-boats and eight 1:700 MTBs. Still wondering how the hell I'm going to base them - one half of me is going "MDF with tetrion on top, stick the model into the still wet(tish) tetrion, create bow and stern waves, and then paint the same colour as the sea cloth you haven't even chosen, let alone bought, yet" and the other half is going "nah, clear acrylic".

Can you guess which one is the lazy half?

[Penda]

MDF buildings from Charlie Foxtrot and the Warbases Modular Buildings range. Waiting on an Italianate tower from Sally Forth and I shall build a Palazzo for our Italian Wars project. In the meantime, more Landsknechts, oh joy!

[Etranger]

Eight 1:700 E-boats and eight 1:700 MTBs. Still wondering how the hell I'm going to base them - one half of me is going "MDF with tetrion on top, stick the model into the still wet(tish) tetrion, create bow and stern waves, and then paint the same colour as the sea cloth you haven't even chosen, let alone bought, yet" and the other half is going "nah, clear acrylic".

Can you guess which one is the lazy half?

https://www.super-hobby.com/products/Sh ... lery_start

One possible solution, and cut to size? You'll get several flotillae out of one sheet.

[garyp]

That's really cool. Do you by any chance know how thick it is? Too thick for 1/1200 ships?

[grizzlymc]

Gaynor says NOTHING is too thick!

[Etranger]

That's really cool. Do you by any chance know how thick it is? Too thick for 1/1200 ships?

No idea. The stuff I've actually seen in the past was thin, say 020 but that was fairly fragile. This looks somewhat thicker.

What I was trying to find for the Baron when I stumbled on those sheets were these printed acrylic ship wakes for 1/3000 etc ships. https://www.odgw.com/forums/store/categ ... cessories/ they might also work. They do work with 1/1200 to 1/3000 but I'm not sure about the larger scales. They wouldn't be long enough for some of the larger 1/600 merchant & war ships.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

The ship wakes would certainly work for the small ships - at 1:700 an E-boat is 5cm long, an MTB is 3.5cm. Might be worth considering.....

Two observations on the "large sheet of water" -
1) Do you need special tools to cut it? My only previous experience of cutting that sort of stuff was it shattering.
2) The postage to the UK is eye-watering, roughly twice the cost of the item.

Otherwise, good finds! Might see if they're available in the UK - probably more expensive, but cuts out the risk of the Royal Mail's kidnapping/ransom scam.

[Etranger]

The ship wakes would certainly work for the small ships - at 1:700 an E-boat is 5cm long, an MTB is 3.5cm. Might be worth considering.....

Two observations on the "large sheet of water" -
1) Do you need special tools to cut it? My only previous experience of cutting that sort of stuff was it shattering.
2) The postage to the UK is eye-watering, roughly twice the cost of the item.

Otherwise, good finds! Might see if they're available in the UK - probably more expensive, but cuts out the risk of the Royal Mail's kidnapping/ransom scam.

That's a Polish online shop, but the company that makes them is UK based (Blackpool to be accurate), so I'd be surprised if you can't find them cheaper. https://www.coastalkits.co.uk/ For the one I linked to, it's 4.50 with 1.30 FCP, so sick squid to you, Baron.

A razor saw or heavy duty knife is likely to be the best bet to cut them & 'score and snap' might well be effective. They're made of 'plasticboard', which is presumably some form of sheet styrene.