Motor Torpedo Boats

Fast surface action with Motor Torpedo Boats!

A couple of months ago, my buddy Mike picked up some British and German MTBs from the UK. No rules set has been selected so far for our gaming group. The criteria for us being: beer n pretzely, easy and playable to get the flavor of fast, surface combat without any hassle of charts and complexity. Bleh... >:p
Something similar to the mechanics of a 'War At Sea' without the cards. Eventually, we'll find something and by then we'll have some boats to play with!   


At any rate, the sculpts were cool enough that I offered to paint them since I've never painted 1:600 scale torpedo boats before. These muthas are heavy, solid and nicely detailed.  

Right outta the bag.

There was minimal flash on a couple of boats but overall they're clean and ready to go! 

The following photos are courtesy of Mike since I did a quick turnaround and didn't have time to photo them in my studio. I must say that it didn't take me long to complete them plus they were so fun to paint. As I always say, some minis are sculpted so nicely that they actually paint themselves. 

The Brits: a Fairmile D flanked by two Vospers.

Foreground: Fairmile D; background: Vosper 

Fairmile D

Kriegsmarine Schnellbootes aka 'S' Boats aka
'E' Boats to the Allies (the 'E' denoting 'enemy').

Schnellbootes
Forground: Early War; background: Late War

Late War S Boats

The whole lot.

Now we need some Merchant Marine tramp steamers for targets.