It's been a wild time over at the Space Dino household, mostly because I actually own a house now. Lots of my time has been spent getting things moved over, but, for the first time in a very long time, I have an official hobby space and room to lay out my things. Which will make it a lot easier to access things in the future as I don't have to go looking for them in boxes. This has also been the reason I haven't been keeping up with everyone's blogs, but now that I don't have to spend every waking moment moving things and unpacking boxes and lifting furniture I have no business moving, things should get into a groove again. So, for the first post of the year, I have HMS Indefatigable, a ship famous for her duel against a much larger ship than herself.
If you play Black Seas, you get the parts that you need to build HMS Indefatigable in the Royal Navy starter box, which are metal figurehead and sternplates, as well as a plastic 5th rate frigate that Warlord Games expects you to use. Except that Indefatigable isn't a 5th rate, but a razee, which is a fancy French word for a 3rd or 2nd rate ship who's upper gun deck has been cut away to make a frigate. Funnily enough, Warlord does sell a generic razee, and from my research it looks like they based it on the Indefatigable, so why they didn't sell the generic model like this is beyond me.
Anyways, I took that resin razee and slapped the sternplate and figurehead, and what do you know they fit perfectly, almost like they were meant to go together. So I guess you could call it a conversion but is it really? One last thing I did was take some plastic 3rd rate masts instead of the 5th rate masts because it just looks a lot better.
The colors are my normal Royal Navy color scheme, but I'm particularly proud of the figurehead. It's a Greek warrior holding a sword and shield, and man was it a pain to get right. Here's a giant thumb to get an idea of what I was working with.
Here's some other WIP shots so you can get an idea of what all the work looks like prior to all of the rigging that goes on.
And finally, because 1/700 scale probably doesn't mean much to the vast majority of people, here's the ship next to a Blood & Plunder mini, which is a 28 mm model on a 20 mm base.
Thanks for reading, looking forward to getting some more models painted. I'm taking part in the Analogue Painting Hobby Challenge again this year, so you'll see my work over there if you follow that sort of thing.
-The Space Dinosaur
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