From KenR - 1/2400 Italian Pre Dreadnoughts (72 Points)

Something a bit different this week, on the back of my "water feature" entry I caught the Naval Bug again and painted these up, they were lying around after a friend left them at my house just in case I felt like doing them.

The ships are from a Company called Tumbling Dice and are 1/2400 in scale, the Leeds club I belong to are having a bit of a club project on the pre WW1 period at the moment. Still under treatment following Project Jutland I am not taking part but was volunteered by my friend to paint these up.

The ships are metal and come in 2 or 3 pieces and have then been placed on MDF bases. I have then used filler to sculpt a sea scape around the model at which stage the model is primed and then painted. The flat tab is for my friend Ian to add a name tag.

The models are quite nicely detailed, not GHQ standards but still very nice, they work well with my painting style. They are painted in the colours of the Italian Navy from around 1905, black hull, white uppers with Ochre masts and stacks.

Size wise they are slightly bigger than a 28mm foot figure and about half the size of the Baden model I did for the bonus round. There are 18 ships in total so at a 28mm foot rate that would be 90 points but it's up to the Grand Minion to decide.

Hopefully there will be an Italian Wars Cavalry unit by the end of the day, I'm relying on basing material drying in time, if not it will have to be two next week 😉

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Oh, a judging headache, goodie! I've gone back through the challenge to see how other Minions have scored 1/2400th scale ships and the general consensus seems to be 3 points each, with a point up or down depending on size, complexity and basing. It's not a precise science but it seems to be relatively consistent so I'm going with "what they said"! I'm going to score each ship as three points but with an extra point each for the excellent textured basing, bringing this lot to 72 Points. 

Lee