The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Monday, 9 January 2023

KenR : 1/700 WW2 Liberty Ship (40 points)

It's been a very slow start for me this year and in an attempt to get things going I've changed tack, and done something Naval to get things moving. I started a 1/700 Project towards the back end of last year and I have a few ships built and primed ready for this challenge, so here is the first one.

The model is a 1/700 scale Liberty Ship called John W Brown from Trumpeter. If you look very closely you will see some 1/700 sailors on the deck which are from a company called Eduard. The actual ship still survives today as a museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

Liberty ships were mass produced in the US to a British design during WW2 and 2,710 were built and certainly had a major part to play in keeping the West supplied during the conflict.

The crew in this shot are the closest I could get 1/700 figures to YMCA 😉

Points wise I'm not sure looking back no one has done a WW2 ship in this scale before. To give an idea of size the base is 22cm x 6cm. Time wise it took me a whole day which is about the time it would take me to do 6 to 8 28mm so I'm guessing 30 to 40 points, don't for get the 10 1/700 figures 😆 I've got a few of these I hope to do during the Challenge and I'm already working on Bismark and a British Destroyer.

I'm currently working on a unit of 28mm French Chasseur a Pied which I hope to have done soon.

Today on Jeopardy the answer is KenR. The question of course is Who in their right mind tries to game with 1/700 scale WW2 ships? And I speak as someone who has run a ship for ship refight of the Run to the South at Jutland and someone who set out to paint up every Allied destroyer that served in the Med in 1941. If you are not aware, Yarkshire Ken here has been collecting fleets in this scale and does games with them (see his blog and other social media channels for more evidence).

Sanity questions aside, your work here is stunning and really belongs in a Museum not a war-game table. The bashing weathering and crew (again are you nuts???) are things to behold.

But seriously where are you planning to play these games On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at?