The lines in the bases are already cut by our laser. Just use red for the fire arc lines and green for the center line. Wait for the paint to dry, then peal off the plastic cover (image 1).

You will see that any excess paint comes off with the plastic leaving nice fine straight lines. Stick down the ships name sticker on the same side as the lines are cut (image 2).

Now peal of the plastic from the back of the base, leaving you with a perfectly transparent clean base (image 4 & 5).

Glue down the ship to the base. Make sure the ships center is aligned with the bases green line (image 6).

Dab on white paint to the bottom of the base. No need to be careful or fancy, just make sure it goes on around the outside of the ship. A big brush makes this process very quick and much easier.

Dab on a trail of paint from the aft of the ship to the sticker for the ships wake.

A very successful Broadside campaign is over! We had a lot of fun, met a lot of Broadsiders, shook at lot of hands and had a lot of very fun conversations.

Congratulations goes to Mitch for winning MOAB24!

It was great to meet so many players and share a yarn or two. Many new fleets & launch packs went home with newly piped captains! Three cheers for all our new Broadsiders!

Cancon will be even bigger and better with a bigger shop and three days of Dreadnought combat!

Places are filling up at CANCON already. Here are your player packs for the biggest gig in town.

If its a more natural look you like for your dazzle camo try the easy way!

This photo looks weird but it is just an A4 piece of paper with a 1cm wide line cut in it. Get out your collection of spray cans and go for it.

Lay the piece of paper over the tool exposing just one part at a time. Spray then rotate the tool a little and spray again. Change cans and repeat until dazzled!

Once the paint is dry come back and slop on black wash around the corners, numbers and letters.

Once the wash is dry paint white over the numbers, letters and corner markings. Seal the paint on with Testors Dull Coat.

A big one day Broadside tournament is on this year at ‘Mother of all battles 2024’. Here is a sneak peak of whats on offer for the players.

The new range ruler, painted ships, painted turning tools, a fleet box and of course the Hood trophy for the winner.

You think this is good? Cancon 25′ will have two tournaments over three days and a whole lot more booty!

MOAB is 5/10 – 7/10 at Silvana Heights community club.

Cancon 25′ is on from the 25th to 27th January 2025 at the ‘EPIC Exhibition Park’ on Flemington rd, Canberra ACT.