War of the Pacific Reinforcements

I've been adding some more ships for the Peruvian and Chilean navies this morning, although I still have a few glaring gaps in the line up. Here we have the Peruvian monitors Manco Capac and Atahualpa from the newer Tumbling Dice range, together with the Peruvian corvette La Union and the Chilean corvette Abtao, both  lightly converted from the old ASV11 screw sloop model by re-positioning the funnels further aft using brass rod cut to size.

The smaller models include the Chilean barque rigged gunboat Magallanes using what is now the ASV18 Large Gunboat casting, to which I need to add a spar to the foremast. The odd one out is the Chilean gunboat schooner Covadonga, which is a tiny Hallmark screw gunboat but, surprisingly enough actually scales out correctly to the actual ship, give or take a few millimetres.

In other news, my new reference book on The Naval War of the Pacific has arrived, so I can now do some in depth research and try to find some more models that I can re-purpose, convert or adapt for both the Chilean and Peruvian fleets. In particular, I need a model to represent the Chilean corvette Esmeralda, although I'll probably just end up using the ASV11 casting all over again?