[Sergei S]

I do both, plastic base with mdf base under. Plastic base is too shallow and light, although holds flocking well. Mdf adds height and weight, so figure is not tipping over and easier to pick up without damaging paint.

[Sergei S]

It is not a complaint about wording, more about some rules being put in supplemented texts instead of rules structure, hence are hard to locate. I am rather for rigidly structured dry rules text, without the fluff.

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Well, that is obviously not going to happen. Warlord seems to be bent on releasing half baked products and not supporting them after. Threatening customer with ban from forums for critisism is an indicator that company has no idea what they are doing.

[Sergei S]

I do somewhat agree on prod quality sometimes. There is not much to leave, this forum is barely alive.

[Sergei S]

Not aware of that one, looks just like German one.

[Sergei S]

I am going to buy 2 more boats and make them MO, with either Warlord guns, or I have some from other models. These I was not willing to wait and banged out in one day. Once painted they seem to be stiffer.

[Sergei S]

My two armored Moshkas from Heroics and Ros.

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A bit easier for me. I am in jewelry business, so hacked off the bottom in minutes. Etched parts are very fragile, for gaming piece will not do. I has same issue with monitor, so most of etched parts got thrown away
I based my 350 scale sub on base of 300 scale to indicate actual size of vessel.

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Nothing wrong with scratch built. I did some models, mostly ot of metal, so I can cast them too. With ships it is harder, since they are sometimes larger, so basswood and otyher materials are fine. I sell a line of ships in 1:2400 for predreadnaught, all are metal castings, but those are much smaller. My problem now is with time availability. Working 70-75 hr weeks can be taxing. Now I have a month respite, so started painting again. Plus my other hobby and house stuff. Have some projects in mind, hope to get to them before more work starts.

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Finally resized and uploaded some pics. First post and here… Thanks for the cards. I will need to make card for Smerch monitor. That would be… interesting. Played one game with it- small boats are no match, destroyer maybe. 2 6 inch guns, 2 twin 4.7 inch guns, 2 47mm guns, 6 hmgs. Torpedo impervious, but slow as molasses.

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A little bit on MO and BMO ships. Initial and most ubuquitous was MO 4- malyi okhotnik, little hunter. Those were built in hundreds and typically had 2 45mm semi auto cannons, 2 12.7mm HMGs and 2 charge racks. BMO was bronirovannyi malyi okhotnik- armored little hunter. Had steel hull, armored engine compartment and very substantial gun shield for forward gun. Aft 455 was replaced with 37mm semi auto AA gun and 12mm hmg were twinned in single mount. What Heroics sells I can obly figure with model in hand. They took my money but gaffed up the order. Will see how that will work out…

[Sergei S]

For the MTBs I paint different color torp heads for the class and then give them stripes individ to the boat in number. Matching heads and stripes on loose torps.
Sergei

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Renko, boats are very nice. Yeah, Malyi Okhotnik missing from lineup is perplexing, since it was most common boat in Soviet service. Soviet MTBs are mostly comic relief in the game, with two torps apiece and only a couple HMGs, they are sort of fire and forget weapons. On the orher hand MO and Bronekater can just pound enemy into submission. There were other vessels in Soviet fleet at the time, if my gaming group would be less anemic on gaming, I could try to scratch build them.
On the pics- do one have to reformat them to MUCH smaller size to post here? I am pretty much always posting off the phone. So that would be an interesting waste of time.
Thanks for tip on Heroics and Ross.
Sergei

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Adding pics here is worse than pulling teeth. What, file size has to be a Sumerian pictogram? Sheesh…

[Sergei S]

I have not posted any of my Soviets pics either. Will try to at some point.

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