Jutland paperships

British

To assemble the battleships you'll need:

Balsa wood (thickness depending on scale)

Scissors

Hobby knife

White glue

Plastic cilinder

Wood or metal rods

Neutral grey paint

Brush

Looking at the print you'll see that it is divided in superstructure elements (top) and the hull (bottom).

Printing: the sizes are correlational between templates so print all the templates in the same size to maintain the correct dimensions.

First of all cut out the elements placed above the hull separating one from another, then glue them on blasa wood. You'll need to measure the hull height on your print to know the tickness of the required plank, the hull is made of two superposed planks. Once dry cut them out along their outlines with a hobby knife and paint the wood edges grey. Afterwards glue the shorter deck plant over the longer one minding that the design fits.

Once this step is done you'll have to cut out the hull (the grey-red element in the bottom) and paint it grey on the unprinted face; then glue it along the edges of the deck elements. The central part of this goes in the ship's prow (left of the bigger deck in the print).

The hull completed, it's time to work on the superstructure, first glue the big grey triangle on the upper deck plant, then glue the turrets in place so they are placed exactly over the printed outline. Then take eight rod sections, paint them grey and glue them in front of the towers as cannons, I recommend that you glue them direclty into the deck/lower turret top to strenghten the model.

This done, glue two sections of grey painted plastic cilinder over the tower design. The last step is the conning tower: the two smaller grey triangles; glue  the bigger first and the smaller on top over the matching design on the upper deck and you're ready to go!

You can always detail it more adding masts, for that florist wire is ideal, using a small tack to pierce the hull.

Assemble the Lion as per above, only add the grey pentagon over its design glued on a balsa plank

The tiger has one turret in a different position and three chimeneys

New Zealand has two "conning towers" and turrets amdiships

Invincible is much like New Zealand, just add a third chimney aft

The minotaur has just two turrets

Duke of Edinburgh has a short upper deck and plenty of monogun turrets

The Hampshire is pretty much like the Edinburgh but with less turrets

The Orion has a rear tower to place the upper aft gun

The Bellerophon has a simiar profile than the Orion but with different turret disposition

The Colossus has a tower below the aft turret

Neptune

Colossus

King George

Revenge

Angicourt

Germans

Light craft (both sides)

 Finally, the dingys

Should do better light cruisers but can't find coloured blueprints

Scuffle in the Cyclops Cluster

 After watching yesterday the amazing Rogue One (IMO the second best SW movie after episode V) I felt like playing BFG again. The scenario is an escalating engagement, with small forces on the board at first and more joining in at dice's roll. Victory to whoever destroys or routs the enemy.

The battle is fough near a star in the Cyclops Cluster, with solar flares diminishing from time to time the ships's leadership values.

 The Imperial Navy was quite lucky, with two cruisers and escorts on the field in turn one vs a lone ork rok

 The rok immediately recieved a torpedo salvo

 Following by a bombing run that left it crippled

 ¡Brace for impact!

 The armed asteroid took out its frustration on the frigates which it destroyed with a torpedo launch

 Two more roks appeared as reinforcements but still too far

 The retribution class battleship showed up next turn

 As a cruiser ran out of bombers and torpedoes!

 The orks breathed more easily as their space hulk moved ponderously into the board

 The roks closed in onto the retribution but caused little damage

 The hulk soon deployed its fearsome array of fighting craft and torpedoes

 The battleship veers to starboard and almost destroys a rok with lock on orders

 The central damaged roks finally succumbed to the imperial guns

 While fury interceptors launched from the other dictator cruiser picked off some ork bombers and assault boats

 The empty dictator burned full retros to avoid the oncoming orks

 With torpedoes away the roks locked on the battleship stripping almost half damage

 The hulk mauls the empty dictator and even sets it on fire, next turn it either puts the conflagration out or dies

 The attack craft leave behind the doomed cruiser and attack the dominator ahead, destroying it neatly

 The rok in the left is destroyed by a long range barrage from the battleship

 The blazing cruiser crashed against the hulk and exploded its warp drives in a last act of last spite, damaging its killer a bit

With the loss of his second cruiser, the imperial player concedes, and his fleet jumps into the warp, leaving the void to the victorious orcs.

As always the hulk performed superbly but the roks proved a bit vulnerable, they are quite cheap after all, so no great loss there. In the first turn it seemed that the imperials were going to win but then the weight of fire began to tell and the greenies took the day!