Korean Naval: Geobukson

[arnimlueck]

Having completed my Chinese collection from Warring States to Ming I started painting Koreans, Steppe Warriors, Tibetans and Nan Chao two years ago. In DBM my favorite list was Yi Dynasty Korean from Book 4. Let's see what happens to the Koreans under DBMM but I still like the period. So the army itself is finished, but as here in Germany we have one Naval-biased tournament in April I of course had to have the "Turtle Ships". Probably what is meant in Book 4 is the basic type of a Kobukson vessel, as the famous Geobukson fighting off the Japanese invasion have been constructed after 1500.

I found no vessels to buy that look good for a 15mm army on 80mm bases. So I went on doing them myself

• wood (pear) for the hull
• PVC plastic card for winglets, and other decoration
• brass and steel wire for masts etc
• Black Hat animals instead of the Turtle head... actually now I have bird's and dog's heads
• Green Stuff and Milliput for the rest

Sources
http://www.willi-stengel.de/Page30a.htm
http://johnhamill.tripod.com/turtle.html
http://www.tabula-rasa.info/JamesAdams/t?e/korean_ts.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_ship
http://www.koreanhero.net/en/TurtleShip.htm
http://www.korean-arts.com/dolls_figurin?turtle_ship.htm

That is what came out:













at least some exotic vessels on the German tables...

Arnim

[MikeCampbell]

nice!!

you have way too much spare time!