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Mike at SBS
Nov 26, 20204 min read
Tiny Flags
Adding flags and banners is a big part of making ships or rank-and-file troops look the part on the battlefield. Not only do these add...
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Mike at SBS
Mar 15, 20203 min read
Battle Report
On Friday, my son Theo and I played a test game for Dreadnought. We each had a dreadnought, battlecruiser, and a light cruiser in our fleets
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Mike at SBS
Dec 8, 20192 min read
Scharnhorst
Exactly 105 years ago, on 8 December 1914, Graf von Spee's German East Asian Squadron sailed to the Falkland Islands...
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Mike at SBS
Oct 19, 20191 min read
Merchant Ships
After reading E. Keble Chatterton's The Sea Raiders, I found myself wanting to add some civilian merchant ships to my scratch-built navy.
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Mike at SBS
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Raid on Zeebrugge
I found this fantastic 1923 recreation of the famous 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.
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Mike at SBS
Oct 4, 20194 min read
Bremen-class cruisers
By the time of the Great War, the seven Bremen light cruisers were already a decade old. However, they saw action across the globe...
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Mike at SBS
Apr 29, 20193 min read
Destroyers: Weapons of Mass Production
One of the more difficult things about my Jutland project was knowing that the "Destroyer Problem" was lurking just under the surface...
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Mike at SBS
Mar 31, 20194 min read
Scratchbuild Shipwright Tools
After posting my tutorial on building my 1:1500 scale ships, I got a request to quickly go over the tools that I used...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 15, 20191 min read
Project: Coronel & Falklands 1914
I got a little distracted during my scratch-built Jutland project...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 9, 20192 min read
Masts!
Its probably a bad idea to keep experimenting with mast solutions still half-way through the Jutland project...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 3, 20193 min read
50 Shades of Battleship Grey
Once the scratch build ships for my Jutland project are built, it's time to throw some paint on them...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 3, 20196 min read
DREAD NOUGHT
Strictly speaking 2017 ended in a bad place for me. The game project I was working on collapsed and the studio was dissolved just a few...
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Mike at SBS
Jan 31, 20195 min read
SCRATCH BUILDING 1/1500 WWI SHIPS
For most wargamers, metal and resin models are the way to go. But for me, the journey of making my own ships out of wood is worth the effort
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