Modifying FMG's Italian Battleship

Here is the unmodieifed ship, and teh modified one beside each other for comparison.

Cheers

The battleship I modified was FMG’s.

Unless you mean other pieces?  I used Table Tactics’ half track, and Avalon Hill’s infantry.  All other pieces I used were FMG’s.  I didn’t use FMG’s trucks, armoured cars or infantry.

@Tall:

Jim010,

Good Job!  And on such a small size as well.  Well done.

“Tall Paul”

Thanks.  Wasn’t hard to do, though.  I still have a couple Italian BBs I will do, so later on I’ll post a how to.

CHeers

OK, here we go:

First, here’s a shot of teh FMG BB again before modification.

Use an exacto knife to trim off the B turret barrels so that you have a level plane from the top of A turret to the top of B turret.

Here the BB is showing how it is to be trimmed.

You’ll need sheet styrene.  Cut out some pieces and glue them on top ofeach other in a stack equal to the height of the FMG BB turret.

Then trim the piece into the square shape of the turret.

Glue the new turret on top of the BB’s B turret.

Next, you’ll need to make the barrels.  I used styrene strips .022 x .033 .

Cut 3 equal length strips the same length as the BB’s barrels.

Glue them in place using cyanoacrylate glue.

All 3 barrels in place:

And then paint whatever colour you wish.  I primed the ship first, and then used an acryllic avocado green for the ship, as I did all the Italian pieces I have.

If I wanted to keep it the original brown, I would use a colour matched acrylic just on the BBs.  No need to repaint all the pieces the same brown.

I chose the green I did as it was a close match to the green Avalon Hill used for their British in the AA Revised.  I thought the colour stood out nicely against the other nations.  And it was similar to the green Avalon Hill used for their Rise and Decline of the Third Reich.

I don’t plan on buying the Canadian or Anzac sets, but if I do, then there’s always more colours to choose from.  :-)

You could.

But then you’d have a ‘scrap’ BB.  The seam where it was glued would show as well unless it was painted over.