FSA escort squadron

And just as a proper lady would go out on the town alone, neither will a ship such as the Republic go to sea without escort. 
Here, the capital ship escort sqadron 638 prepares to accompany the Republic on her voyage.

FSA Dreadnought "Republic" ready to head to sea!

The dreadnought FSA Republic readies to leave port! The captain only waits for the tide to come in and they will be off to defend the Republic against all who would do her harm!

I have just completed most of the details and next will be the base.  I am not happy with the stars on the paddle wheels so I will be re-doing them this week.
We have been playing alot of Dystopian Wars in the last couple of months.  And it's all Jeff's fault.  He painted a starter fleet for each of us. So we have been able to just jump in and start playing.   The update to 2.0 in the rules has dramatically improved the playability of the game,  which was good to begin with.

HMS Warrior and HMS Veteran

HMS Warrior (left) and HMS Veteran (right) ready for action.

After many months in drydock these these two set sail for king and country.

Rigging

HMS Warrior and HMS Veteran with the rigging started.

HMS Saturn leaves port to join Admiral Parker!

Just finished rigging the 74 gun HMS Saturn.
After looking at the ships I have finished I have decided to wait to finish the waves on the base until I have most (if not all) of the ships done.  The wave patterns on each of the ships so far has varied dramatically.  So I think I will try to do them in large groups to get a more consistant look.  I do want some variation, but not as much as I am getting.  I love how these Langton ships turn out, and I am getting faster at doing the rigging.  6 down, 40 to go.

The first of the ships of the line sets sail

The HMS Ramilles emerges from final fitting on its shakedown cruise.

HMS Ramilles, 74 gun ship of the line, is the first of the ships in Parkers squadron to be finished.  Rigging took most of the day today.  The Saturn is ready to be rigged next.

Just a little more paint...

Just to be clear, I do not like the eye dropper paint bottles.  I just was trying to get a little more of the Reaper Brilliant Blue paint out of the bottle.  I am used to trying to get paint out of the bottles when they do not want to work.  After several pokes with my trusty paperclip, and some gentle shake and squeeze, I finally gave it a good (bad?) squeeze.  And the nozzle exited the bottle with a dramatic splut!!!!  And I go from being a frustrated mini painter to looking like a Pollack painting.
I did have to take a shower, clean my painting glasses (like reading glasses, only different).  And wipe up blue paint from the wall, a bookcase end, the computer, my cellphone and all sorts of other places.
On the good side I missed all of the miniatures on the desk around the paint tray with the paint.  And most importantly, I missed the 2 ships of the line hulls that I just finished.  But I did get paint up my nose.  At least I did get enough paint out of the bottle to base coat 4 sea bases.
And I had just decided that I would go change out of my work clothes after I put the blue undercoat on the sea bases...  So, I think that I have ruined the polo shirt I was wearing.
Did I mention that I do not like the eye dropper paint bottles?
(At least all the blue washed out of my beard, ears, nose and hair.  I was worried that I was going to work tomorrow looking like a smurf...)