Wargaming at Iserlohn

It's been a while since my last update and that is because I have been busy painting up the remaining of my Imperial and FPA ships. Roughly 30 FPA and 40 imperial standard (battleships, cruisers, carriers) ships were added to both rosters. What are the Fleet File Garage Kits? Garage kits are basically resin model kits produced usually in limited numbers, in the past these kits were mainly produced by hobbyists in Japan in their own homes and sold at conventions or in small circles.  In the case of the Fleet File series they the unpainted and unassembled (slightly more than the normal kits which require minor assembly of antennas and fins) versions of the main series.  They come in these brown simple boxes with no art and include significantly more models (usually 20) than each individual standard kit.  One of the main benefit if you're someone like me that is trying to get models to beef up armies for a tabletop game is that it's very easy to paint named ships as standard...

 Fleet File Vol 11 This ship set came out in 2019 after a long gap of years between releases as volume 10 came out in 2011. Likely this is because of the renewed interest in the series due to the release of "Die Neue These" the year before; this is of course only speculation and I have no information on this apart from a letter included in Volume 10 which I will mention in a later post. Ostmark: the flagship of the Lippstadt fleet during the Imperial civil war. The main ship design is fairly standard and follows the traditional design of imperial flagships (I.E. just a big version of a standard battleship).  It is interesting in the fact that it also comes with two shield ships on the sides which give it a completely different profile. Viewed from the side the whole set looks just like one huge ship instead of three separate ones.   Berlin: The ships is basically a sister ship to the Ostmark, the only differences are in the interior (from the included booklet it was more ...

  Fleet File Vol 5 review  Another fairly standard Fleet File volume if not for the fact that it contains one of the weirdest/ugliest/confusing ships in the FPA fleet, the Triglav.  Theodoricus (Goldenlowe version): The flagship of admiral Thurneysen. Interestingly with the Goldenlowe crest, it is noteworthy because the last time this ship was seen in the animated series was before Reinhard's ascension to the throne so with the old Goldenlowe crest.  This is due to the fact that admiral Thurneysen fell out of favour after his blunder during the battle of Vermillion.   Grand Canal  + 2x Alliance cruiser, three copies of the standard alliance cruiser with the Grand Canal only being distinguished by the numbers on the side of its prow.   Salamander: Goldenbaun and Goldenlowe version: Admiral's Wahlen's flagship in both versions. I believe this is the only imperial ship equipped with a pair of claws on its lower part presumably to anchor the ship during ...

    Fleet File Vol 1R review  This R volume was created, I believe, to give people the opportunity to buy the Brunhild model as it is one of the most important ships in the series and was previously included in the Vol 1 which has been long out of print and extremely expensive to purchase.  The only duplicate ships between the two volumes are the Asgrimm and Brunhild, both Goldenbaum and Goldenlowe versions.  This makes it a bit awkward as you really need to buy both sets as the other ships are extremely different but then you end up with 4 copies of each duplicate ship.  There are some minor differences which I will get into with the Vol 1 review. This set is mostly for imperial ships as the account for 80% of the included models.   Brünhild (Goldenbaum and Goldenlöwe versions): probably the most iconic ship from the series, the model does justice to the animated series and it is really impressive.   As I mentioned above if you want to purc...