Auxiliary Gunboat finished

22. July 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 1/300 ships for sale, auxiliary gunboat, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, narrow seas, naval wargaming, Warlord

I finished the coastal freighter as a auxiliary Gunboat. The weapons are as always from the Warlord and Heroic & Pos weapons sets. VP 1037 is a Vorpostenboot as it was very often used in the channel , north sea and the baltic during the second WW. It was used for escort duties for small convoys , or for escorting U boats back to base through the biscay sea.

And a size comparison with a E boat:

You can get a Auxiliary Gunboat here.

MS Louisa finished and available for purchase

23. June 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 1/300 ships for sale, Coastal collier, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, MS Louisa, narrow seas

I finished the MS Louisa coastal collier! You can see pictures of the finished three versions below:

And a size comparison with a Vosper from Warlord Games:

My complete fleet of selfmate ships so far:

You can purchase the ships if you like just go here for more info !

Next up will be a bigger collier and a passenger liner.

MS Louisa as an auxiliary gunboat

13. June 201913. June 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, auxiliary gunboat, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, narrow seas

Auxiliary gunboats were used by the germans during WWII in a great variety . This is the MS Louisa converted into such a vessel . These vessels were used for security and convoy support.

I haven’t thought about the armament jet, but you could definitely mount a 88 mm gun in the central position and 37mm or double 20mm guns fore and aft and an additional 20mm on top of the wheelhouse . I will put some Warlord weapons on it when i did the mould.

MS Louisa ready for painting

11. June 201911. June 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, 6mm, Coastal collier, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, MS Louisa

I did the mould and cast the first examples of the MS Louisa coastal freighter / collier.

I did three different ones.

The collier version loaded with coal:

The version with a load of crates and boxes:

And a version loaded with wood:

Here is a size comparison with an E boat by warlord:

More pictures when I finished painting them up. Next version will be a gun carrier.

S.S. König

30. May 201930. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, 6mm, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, liner, S.S. König

This is the start of a steam ship liner. It is a generic ship and based on a lot of contemporary pictures.

I wanted to reuse the hull of the S.S. Bellota to safe me from doing a new hull and mould. should be more cost-effective this way. As you can see I work with o core of extruded polystyrene clad with paper for detailing. When you paint that later on with a diluted PVA it gets rock solid.

Here are a few more pictures:

More to come

MS Louisa almost ready for casting

28. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, MS Louisa, Warlord, World War II

Here are the latest pictures of the MS Louisa. i added three different loads for the hold of the ship. Coal, wood and assorted boxes .

This will add a little diversity to my feet of coastal frighters.

Ships for sale

27. May 201927. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships for sale, 6 mm Wargaming, Coastal war, Convoys, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, wargaming ship models for sale

Because of popular demand I generated a page for purchasing my ships. Just bear in mind that the ships are meant for wargaming! These are no scale models intended to win building championships with! Just follow the link 1/300 ships for sale .

MS Louisa small coastal collier

24. May 201924. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, 6mm, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, MS Louisa

The paper model of the Hunt class destroyer i used to build my resin version from came with a little coastal frighter. A motor ship running with a Diesel engine. As I had a bit of time in between bigger projects I decided to build that model in 6mm for Cruel Seas ,too.

Here are the pictures of the nearly finished build.

She is nearly as long as a S Boat ( E boat) but wider.

I will probably do the molds next week.

SS Green Island

20. May 201920. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, 6mm, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, SS Green Island, Warlord

Here is the latest steam ship I finished . It is the loaded version of the SS Bellota.

Here are all the ships i did recently for Cruel Seas , by Warlord Games, together with a trawler and a Fairmile D ( both from Warlord)

Next will be a coastal collier, used in the east coast convoys, and a liner, wich could be used as a troop ship.

HMS Brocklesby

15. May 201915. May 2019 thomasriepe 1/300, 1/300 ships, 6 mm Wargaming, Coastal war, Cruel Seas, east coast convoys, Heroic&Ros, HMS Brocklesby, Hunt Type II destroyer, Warhammer 40000, WWII

HMS Brocklesby was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War, spending much of the time in the English Channel and Mediterranean, taking part in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, and the Allied landings in Sicily and at Salerno in 1943. After the war, she was used as a sonar trials ship until 1963, and was sold for scrap in 1968. More about the ship here .

Here is the model I made of her in a typical coastal camouflage pattern: