Mike at SBS
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
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
- Nov 15, 2020
- 1 min
HMGS Round Table Interview
Huge thank you to Mitch Reed at NDNG for hosting me on the HMGS Round Table and letting me drag on a bit about Ironclads...
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Mike at SBS
- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min
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
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
Dreadnought: Mini
A few months ago I randomly bought a bag of second-hand pieces from the classic boardgame, Battleship. I wasn't quite sure to do with it...
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Mike at SBS
- Oct 19, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
Project: Coronel & Falklands 1914
I got a little distracted during my scratch-built Jutland project...
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Mike at SBS
- Feb 9, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 5 min
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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