It's freezing in the garage today but I've stuck at it to assemble a smorgasbord of shipping for my South American Pre-dreadnought project.
First up, we have the Chilean central battery modernised ironclad Almirante Cochrane, using the old and now out of production model.
Then we have the two Peruvian light cruisers that I converted earlier in the week, with the Almirante Cochrane for comparison.
Next, two Royal Navy cruisers which served on the North America and West Indies station, the Apollo class cruiser HMS Intrepid and the Diadem class cruiser, HMS Ariadne.
Last of all is a selection of merchant shipping including a couple of tramp steamers, four colliers or mineral carriers, an oiler, a small liner, a couple of tugs with barges and a packet steamer, the latter a model of SMS Wolf repurposed for the job.
I'll get the bases textured and the models undercoated tomorrow, but I'm off to warm up by the fire now, as I'm ********* freezing!
Smorgasbord (Smörgåsbord) from Swedish smör (butter), gås (geese) and bord (table). Smörgås means sandwich, which I presume in the older days often came with gees on top (at least here in the very south of Sweden, were we used to breed them in abundance). For some of our larger holidays, we normally serve all the food on a huge table you go to and pick your choice yourself - a smörgåsbord.
ReplyDeleteVery tasty too 👍🇸🇪
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