Mike at SBS Jun 12 2 min Building Mortar Boats One of the interesting little innovations of the US Navy during the Civil War was the mortar boats (sometimes called rafts). These were...
Mike at SBS Mar 16 2 min Building Erebus & Terror A big part of my inspiration to finally make Lonely Cairn came from my little scratchbuild project to make HMS Erebus and Terror. After...
Mike at SBS Jan 15 2 min Making Splash Markers When developing Dreadnought, I became fascinated by splashes...
Mike at SBS Nov 25, 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...
Mike at SBS Aug 1, 2020 4 min Building Ellet Rams After the City-class ironclads, I moved on to the Ellet rams. These were a bit tricky to build. Owing to the civilian origins of Ellet's...
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.
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...
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...
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...
