There ya are 

I got these things because as strapped as my hobby funds are, I got a raise (9%, not bad).  And I decided I could blow most of the extra $$ I would see in my first paycheck on gaming  :twisted:

I figgered the Japanese would be the easiest to paint, and your post mirrors what I've heard.   I'm gonna use Reaper gun metal on their hulls, as it's a dark grey, a nice dark tan for the decking and straight black on the gun turrets and smokestack tops). 

As for the Russians, thanks for that    I can get a pretty dark green by mixing olive drab with a touch o' black. 

Shoot me your address (my yahoo is themattcurtis). Love to see the pics.

If you go to the MJ-12 egroup and look in the photos section (GenCon 2004), you can see a few pics taken of my Yellow Sea game I ran at GenCon in 2004.
The photos don't show the ships very closely, but you can at least get some idea of what they look like until I can send you some better pics.
I'm the geek in the glasses and Wichita State shirt.

Kevin

I'm lovin the way the WTJ ships are painting up.

Kevin, ya gots to come to Origins some day.  We'll OD on Grand Fleets.

My girlfriend has a digital camera, and I want to take some pics to send you.

The Japanese paint jobs are really clean.  I have them in flat, medium grey (I think the color is Reaper "slate") with wooden decking and steel plate black for the gun barrels sticking out of the main turrets (saw some images that reinforced that idea).  And teeny little white lifeboats.  I have about 9 of their ships finished now.  And I have to say the Yakumo BB, Mikasa BB and two of my protected cruisers look the best.

The Russians have 7 ships completed.  Dark green hulls, superstructures and turrets (olive drab mixed with some leather brown gave me a good shade) wooden decking, white lifeboats and yellow smokestacks with black rings -- all the ships have their smoke stacks tipped in black, but I tried the rings I saw in actual photos on some of the Russians.  I got the colors from model galleries, a couple of written accounts and the photospread in the middle of one of my books (even though it's black and white, you can make out the scheme isn't far off target).  Right now, Rossia is my favorite there.

So, 30 ships in my initial package and I got 16 done in a week.  But I'm gonna rest for a day or so.  And by Wednesday I'll be getting my last set of cruisers and my destroyer flotillas.

My raise is gonna give me a small gaming budget....finally  .......right now I have enough to do Yellow Sea, Ulsan and some Port Arthur "what ifs?"  In the next month or so I'd like to either gnab some American and Spanish ships, or American and German. 

I got a novel -- "1901" -- that has a hypothetical war between the US and Germany.  That could make for some NICE little battles.  Or Hells Bells, I could put American and Japanese pre-dreadnoughts against each other  :twisted: