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[Mark Hinds]

Trip down memory lane...found a 1/2400 Superior kit for Tirpitz:

 

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Bought quite a few of these Superior kits at the Ship Shop in Annapolis, Maryland, back in the day. Not sure if I'll ever build it, though; worth more to me in the box.

I remember those boxes, although in my case they usually contained 1/1200 DDs.  Don't recall the shape of boxes for 1/1200 cruisers and BBs.  I only bought 1/2400 from CinC and GHQ.  

[healey36]

Superior was my first foray into 1/2400, predating GHQ’s introduction of their Micronauts range by quite a few years. The Ship Shop was a terrific source, as was Alnavco by mail-order. Panzerschiffe was available around the same time as I recall. CinC 1/2400 was unknown to me until years later.

I’ve played a few games at 1/1200-1/1250 to humor my associates, but I don’t care for the look of the them with their stem-to-stern formations in a compressed space. I instead fondly recall engagements at 1/700 on the floor of the armory gym some 50 years ago. I don’t remember what ruleset we used, likely something fairly simple that was jacked up with a bunch of house rules, but it was terrific fun.

[Peter M. Skaar]

My first, and only foray, into WWII naval and eventually WWI naval was GHQ.  I love the models and the level of detail on them.  I have seen CinC and some others but have stuck with GHQ.

I do have a couple of GHQ 1/1200 Napoleonic naval ships but have not done anything with them and probably won't for a long time as I am not crazy about doing rigging.  I do appreciate those that can and do do it.  I also have some Langton Civil War naval miniatures in 1/1200 scale and the Monitor and Virginia in 1/600th scale.

[Mark 1]

I have also dabbled in naval -- WW2 and Napoleonic era.  I managed to get a few sailing ships painted up (and rigged, to a minimal extent).  But alas, they have not been on a game board since some time last century.  (What an odd thing to be able to say...)

 

As to the WW2 naval, I had a couple interesting games a while back, and went out and bought a few cruisers and destroyers.  Picked up a couple moderns too, thinking I might wander that direction too. But those have all waited in the "to be painted" pile.  In the meantime I've stumbled into a local group that gets together for WW2 naval a few times a year, which is pretty active for me.  But alas, they do 1/6000, so none of the models I bought will serve.

[healey36]

I too have a number of modern-era 1/2400 and 1/6000 (even have one 1/1250), but none have hit the table. Something about ship-to-ship over-the-horizon missile combat feels like it'd be best played on a pad of graph-paper. I have a complete set of Bond's Harpoon rules and associated books but have yet to crack them out. Someday...or maybe ODGW eventually gives us their modern-era take. 

[healey36]

Recently turned out a USS Washington in 1/6000:

 

 

A casting by Figurehead, Vallejo paints/washes, homemade base on a Litko plywood plank.