... Just something that came to mind with Tim Gow's competition for naming rights for his recently built ships for his Little Cold Wars project. I didn't come even close to success, unable to do more than identify half the sources of the ships' turrets, and them only tentatively. But it did give me the impetus to do something I had neglected for some considerable time: to name my own 'Jono's World' vessels of war.
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| Aircraft Carriers of the Imperial Raeshan Navy. The pen was by way of indicating scale, but the angle makes the vessels look larger than they really are. |
What follows is really just one of the navies. Those of the exiguous Kiivar Navy have already been named, and I'll have to come up with something else for the Saabiyan Navy allied to Kiivar.
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| A better indication of scale is the rather munted matchbox sleeve in the overhead view. |
Aircrft Carriers:
IRS11 (Imperial Raeshan Ship) Abezithebou
IRS12 Adramalech
IRS13 Apollyon
IRS14 Azmodeus
Line-of-Battle Ships:
First Battle Squadron:
IRS1 Put Baphomet
IRS2 Barbatos
IRS3 Beelzebub
IRS4 Behemoth
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| First battle Squadron. Same picture as the previous with matchbox added |
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| Second Battle Squadron. |
IRS15 Belial
IRS16 Belphagos
IRS17 Bhairava
IRS18 Botis
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| Raesharn's Cruiser Fleet: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cruiser Squadrons. |
Cruisers:
First Cruiser Squadron:
IRS41 Callicanzaros
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| From left to right as we see them, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cruiser Squadrons |
IRS43 Cimijes
Second Cruiser Squadron:
IRS51 Dantalion
IRS52 Decarabia
IRS53 Demogorgon
Third Cruiser Squadron:
IRS61 Eligos-Abigor
IRS62 Erishkigal
IRS63 Erinyes
IRS64 Eurynome
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| The Navies of Jono's World. Need more aircraft... The vessels of the rather colourful Navy of Saabiya have yet to be named. I'm open to suggestions... |
Links to past postings on Jono's World Navies:
Imperial Raesharn Navy
Kiivar Navy
Naval Aircraft
Very nice, you do need some escorts though...) What type of Government does Saabiya have? Would help with the appropriate names.
ReplyDeleteNow that is a very good question! If I still had contact with Jono, I'd ask him. I'm inclined to think that of the three belligerents, its government is the most likely to be democratic - at least at some level. Probably a Democratic Oligarchy - not so dissimilar to the type of government with we are familiar!
DeleteI forgot to mention that each navy does have a number of destroyers - 12 in the Raesharn Imperial Navy. But after some thought I've decided not to name destroyers but assign them a serial. I'm thinking of beefing up the Raesharn Destroyer fleet to 16, divided into Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta Squadrons (In some deference to Star Trek). The Destroyers will then be A1-4, B5-8, G9-12, D13-16.
DeleteApart from these, submarines, merchant vessels and landing craft, I want to keep the navies simple (though to add a couple of Battlecruisers to the Saabiyan Navy is a temptation I may not be able to resist).
So little and so beautiful! Love these ships!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Phil. They haven't seen action yet, though!
DeleteThose are fantastic! Well done.
ReplyDeleteYour unstinting praise warms the cockles of my heart! I quite like them myself... :-)
DeleteSuperb models!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Tim. There have been a few miniature navies appearing on blogs recently, including your own. I find I'm quite taken with this sort of thing.
DeleteThose ships are very nice with a real toylike charm to them.
ReplyDeleteVery much 'cartooned' in style - they certainly not intended to be in scale. The thought occurs that I could have pictured some 1:4800 scale white metal ships in my possession, by way of comparison. Now, if only I could find a way of mass producing these things...
ReplyDeleteDamned fine looking ships! Another fine product from your workbench!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Brian -
DeleteThese were actually completed quite while back - a couple of years at least. But I'd never got around to naming them, although from memory a certain Admiral Yueh is a member of the Raesharn Naval High Command. It was Tim Gow's comp that reminded me... Of course, one never quite knows how the Alpha to Epsilon of Daemonology will go down...
Cheers,
Ion
What wood do you use to build these? Could you do a toutorial? What is Jono’s World?
DeleteNicely done Ion. They look a treat!
ReplyDeleteThat box has a real Scarpa Flow look about it :)
A submariner's paradise?
DeleteWhat wood do you use for these miniships? What is Jono’s World and can you make a toutorial on how to build these miniships?
ReplyDeleteI hope you get to see this. The wood is mostly balsa, but I have found the spatula-shaped ice-cream or ice-block sticks very suitable.
Delete"Jono's World' was the creation of a young guy who called himself Jono (John-o). He had dreamed up an imaginary world that has long ago been colonised by humans, but who had reverted back to the stone age before recovering, by the year 66940 to the level of technology of World War Two.
Jono expressed some interest in making it into some kind of war game. However, after about a year he seemed to want to move on. But I was interested enough to carry on the project.
Tell you what: rather than a lengthy reply here, I'll write up a posting and add links to past articles.