Thomo's Hole

I love it when the postman comes. He came today with a nice parcel from the folks at Brigade Models. I had decided to take advantage of the summer sale at Brigade (after having manfully resisted purchasing anything from them at Salute 2012) to top up my aeronef fleet.

Over the last couple of years I have been building the necessary troops for my Peshawar collection. Whilst it is currently based around colonial English, French, German and Russian, I did think it was a good opportunity to introduce the Pacific powers. So I ordered some Japanese and American ‘nefs. Tonight I’ll deal with the Japanese.

The first part of the order was for fleet pack VANFP-602, the Japanese Carrier pack. The photo to the right shows the content of this which is:

• 1 x Ryujo class Carrier
• 1 x Yakumo class Heavy Cruiser
• 3 x Nagatsaki class Destroyer
• 3 x Mikasa Class Patrol Nef
• 12 x A1D Shinden Fixed Wing Fighter
• 4 x Fighter Stand
• 12 x Clear plastic flying stand

I was tempted by this pack for the fixed wing aircraft that would be carried by the Ryujo class carrier. Not shown are the flying and fighter stands.

To accompany the carrier group above I ordered fleet pack VANFP-601

• 2 x Yashima class Battleship (the same structure that forms the basis of the Rjujo carrier)
• 1 x Yakumo class Heavy Cruiser
• 1 x Akashi class Light Cruiser
• 1 x Nagatsaki class Destroyer
• 2 x Mikasa Class Patrol Nef
• 7 x Clear plastic flying stand

This pads the fleet up nicely to give a total Japanese fleet of:

• 1 x Ryujo class Carrier
• 12 x A1D Shinden Fixed Wing Fighter
• 2 x Yashima class Battleship
• 2 x Yakumo class Heavy Cruiser
• 4 x Nagatsaki class Destroyer
• 5 x Mikasa Class Patrol Nef
• 1 x Akashi class Light Cruiser

Also included are a Play sheets CD and some Japanese naval ensigns.

I know, more for the paint pile – still, they are such nice little models. I’ll post details of the Americans later