I decided to start painting the 1/2400th scale ships with the bases, as this will avoid making a mess of the paintwork later on. I needed to match the bases to my Tiny Wargames Dark Sea cloth, so have used a basecoat wet brush of Vallejo Dark Sea Blue, followed by a drybrush of Army Painter Wolf Grey and a final light over drybrush of Vallejo White. This seemed to look right although I might tone down the amount of white at the end, before I apply a coat of gloss or satin varnish to make it look suitably wet. I tried out the combination of paints using a spare base but I don’t think it will be too hard to apply the same approach on the models that I’ve already glued down.