Whilst I am awaiting my Pre-order of Cruel Seas to arrive I noticed that Wargames Illustrated was giving away a boat sprue as part of the Cruel Seas Release promotion.
So I ended up with two copies of the magazine, why? because they were giving away either a Schnell Boat sprue or a Vosper Boat Sprue.
These models are very well detailed and are surprisingly large. Although I do play 6mm 1/300 scale I have never seen any MTBs in this scale before and I am taken aback by the scale of the ships.
Construction is quick and easy although I was not too sure about one part so I left that off, as there is no instructions within the magazine.
All the reference material I had on MTBs I had given away to a friend ( I acquired the book as part of Stephens Collection and had no use for them at the time), so I will have to borrow them back. I did a quick search on Google and came up with a few colour schemes and quickly primed the models in Grey then set about shading and painting the models. I found that for once I enjoyed painting these models, and quickly came up with a way to paint and shade them quickly, painting all four in a few hours.
I now can not wait for my order to arrive and get some games played. I have also ordered the German Navy set and look forward to painting some of the coastal craft.
You can find out more about the game within the pages of Decembers Wargames Illustrated or on Warlords web site:
https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/cruel-seas
Thanks
Jon
