Gunboat and Dhows (Pt. II Giza mods)

Hello again.  I just wanted to share what I have been doing to improve the looks of the Gunboat Giza I made previously.  I start it out with old pictures from the Sudan Campaign for reference. Then you can see what I added and changed to give it a better feel of haphazard defenses attached to the boat as I have seen in pictures.  I am getting better at it but a million miles to go to learn how to weather and add more details to these models.

Thanks again for all of your support out there in this great hobby of ours.

Enjoy the pictures and narratives.

Last Stand Dan

Gunboat - Building the Sidewheeler Kadesh

The Kadesh

So I have been running my Sudan Campaign and at the same time building the third boat.  This time I wanted to try my hand at building a side-wheeler.  Again I took my ideas and inspiration from pictures and other models I have seen.  You can see I cheated on the paddles and "armored" the compartments up which left me with mounting just a few paddles on each side.  I struggled with this one trying to balance it out, placement of the Pilot house, etc.

So the story behind this is that the Dervish also had some converted/captured boats on the Nile.  So I wanted to take the opportunity to build a side wheeler since I have already built a screw and a stern wheeler.  This would be an old converted Egyptian ferry boat that the Dervish will use to harass the British Nile Fleet or may show up in a small battle where the British find themselves the ones without gunboat support. We shall see what kind of devious scenario I can come up with.

Well once again added captions within the pictures.  Thanks for taking the time and all the comments I have been receiving.  The river battles are going to start coming up in the campaign so stay tuned for more action!

Dan