Back of Beyond - The Black Sea sailors

 This weeks completion is the lads of “Torpedo Odessa”. A unit of Black Sea sailors - again from Copplestone .

Really enjoyed painting these guys 

 

I have also worked on their boat . I had the good guys from the Pendraken laser room make me up MD`f hull shapes that were clamped together to make a hull about 300mm long . I already had some armament from the paddle steamer model which is magnetised so I only needed to add some of that to enable to swap over .

I am waiting for the command set turning up for these and have designed a suitable flag 

I left it with a simple open superstructure for now . The captain , cox and wheel were all from Ironclad 

I have added tubing to take flag and a main mast that are removable to make it useable for various nations and also easier to store . 

6 layers of full hull , with two extra on the front .

Once it was glued together it was sealed with PVA and primed with an acrylic / polyurethane primer .

A simple paint job after that . 

The funnel is made from a large metal air intake from the Ironclad stuff .

 

I have more naval weaponry on order , including torpedo launchers . I have also commissioned mark 2 longer wider , more detailed supersctrucre etc as a result if the learning with this one .