After spending the first part of the year painting stuff for Crisis Point, I've been off on a tangent lately, starting with another Star Wars ship, The YT-49 Decimator:
To date, it hasn't appeared in any film or TV series but was in a video game. In reality I think that they needed an Imperial equivalent of the Millennium Falcon for one of the games. It appears in the X-Wing minis game but this is a 3-D printed one.
For our JoS game, we are planning on a large Prague 48 game, set around the fictional city of Stary Boleslav. This would feature a bridge for the Soviets to capture, which means that there'll be a river. This started me off thinking of minis that could be used on the river and that started me on some boat minis that I have had knocking around for a while:
A couple of US PT boats from Cruel Seas that came free with an issue of Miniature Wargames and a Fairmile D from H&R. I think my original idea was for the Fairmile to be a patrol boat for the Turkish navy, which is why I cut the torpedo launchers off. There's no reason at all why any of these boats would be on the River Elbe in Czechoslovakia in 1948 but I really like them all the same. This has started me on a bit of a naval obsession. I think that I could get into Cruel Seas on the basis of the miniatures alone and now have half-baked ideas of a 1980s Aegean Sea Turkey Vs Greece flare up. Hold that thought.
One ship that might actually find a place in our JoS game is this little tugboat that I bought from Shapeways some time ago:
Not much to say about this other than it's been on my paint station for about 5 years so I'm glad that it's finally done. I thought that I'd painted it in a generic nautical scheme but it turns out that I've painted it like a Mersey ferry! Some subliminal suggestion at work obviously.
