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WWI Hochseeflotte
Kaiser from the stern.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
Kaiser coming at you.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
Cruisers and capital ships arrayed for inspection.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
This is the contents of a NavWar 1/3000 WWI German fleet starter pack: 5 battleships, 1 battlecruiser, 4 light cruisers and 8 destroyers. This pack is good value (you basically get the destroyers for free), but some of the other ones are not so, because they tend to include projected and other relatively useless ships.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
CL Frankfurt cruising the high seas.
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Frankfurt seen from above.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
BC Von Der Tann sets sail.
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Von Der Tann from above. WWI naval designs are actually more interesting than the later ones, as the 'best' designs had not yet emerged.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
Light cruisers Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. The older German light cruisers were really only super-sized destroyers with their 4.1 inch main battery.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
CL Brummer, designed as a minelayer.
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Terrain boards
Simple hardboard affairs to replace my cloth fragments.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
Light cruisers Brummer and Bremse.
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BB König steams looking for the enemy.
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König from the air. Actually, I have no idea whether the ship's boats were really painted white in wartime, but it looks better this way.
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König again.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
This stubby little puppy is the BB Westfalen. Nice wing turret layout.
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Westfalen.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
BB Bayern, one of the German 15 inch battlewagons.
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Bayern seen from the bow.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
BB Helgoland. Same basic turret layout as with Westfalen, but not quite as crowded as the ship is longer and has more graceful lines.
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Helgoland seen from above.
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Firstborn macemen
The macemen arrayed for battle. In game terms the swordsmen tend to be better troops, but these are nice minis.
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Firstborn characters
Ok, the great maceman isn't really a character. He got included in this group because he forgot to wear his helmet.
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Firstborn Chronomancer
The gloves were a bit troublesome - they seem to be part armor, part cloth or leather.
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Firstborn greatmaceman
The punch in a maceman troop.
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Firstborn Judge
A delightfully commissar-like character.
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Firstborn Repulsar Knight
I was really disappointed with this mini. The game artwork shows a Repulsar Knight jumping into the middle of a horde of enemies - I was expecting a far more dynamic pose. Switched the polearm position slightly to make it even a little bit interesting.
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Firstborn Repulsar Knight
Here's the polearm blade done in my patented BMM style. That's Bare Metal Metal. After painting the blade black and drybrushing with gunmetal, the edge is then scraped clean of paint, exposing the real metal. Obviously, this technique doesn't work all that well with plastic minis. And no, I didn't really invent it.
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Firstborn Repulsar Knight
Another view of the stiff Knight.
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WWI Hochseeflotte
I knew this box would come in handy one day...
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Terrain boards
They're sort of done now. The boards with depressions are reversible. Some boards are still one-sided, I haven't decided what to put on the other side yet.
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Terrain boards
I'm not happy with the river, Woodland Scenics Realistic Water didn't really work as advertised. Maybe I'll redo them at a later date.
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Firstborn macemen
The obligatory overhead view.
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Firstborn maceman leader
Again, there's the shield discrepancy...
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Firstborn maceman
The pose is pretty much the same as one of the swordsmen.
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Firstborn maceman
These were the first figures where I tried the Foundry 3-color system and was actually satisfied with the results. The musculature is so exaggerated it was easy for even me to place the highlights right.
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Firstborn maceman standard bearer
Why a troop of less than ten warriors need their own flag is beyond me, though...
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BB Kaiser cruising on 'realistic' water.
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Aerial view of the Kaiser.
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