1/4800 ships of the line

Fifteen more ships, bringing the number of my ships of the line to 21. They are from Tumbling Dice. I've had some experience with their kind with the previous batch, but I have painted more small scale figures since, so I had a better approach. 

The ships had a grey primer, were blocked in, shaded, and then I highlighted the stripes on the hulls. Most of the information during a battle would come from the individual data sheets anyway.

There are three types of hull color, white, red and yellow. The lot contains six three- and nine two-deckers.

I've changed the queue of posts so I wouldn't spoil their presentation here with the battle they fought on the seas of the imaginary Schultze-Böhnstadt world. 

1/4800 naval game

Took the Tumbling Dice 1/4800 ships out for a game, using Kiss Me Hardy. Despite looking a bit complicated at first (I think it was the same with other TFL rules), the rules play really well.

The Fricklander and Crontaineviller, both two squadrons, five ships strong overall, clash on an open sea. The wind favors the Crontaineviller (orange) fleet.

Small scale naval action

The 1/4800 Tumbling Dice men-o-war have been sitting on my shelf for way too long without a baptism of fire. With ad-hoc modifications, we had played a small naval game using OPF Seafarers. You can find the rules on the Rules page IIRC. 

Did somebody say 'small scale'?

The 1/4800 scale Tumbling Dice loot had arrived and had been duly completed.

I have ordered 6x two-decker men'o'war, 6x 32-gun frigates and 12x unrated small ships (sloops, brigs and cutters, 4 of each), and paid less than 30£ for the lot, shipping included. Here they are in a magnificent disarray.