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New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures in 1/700 (10 years ago, I scratch built both of them...):

Sloop USS Kearsage (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/6QGS3NLC5/1-700-uss-kearsarge-1864?optionId=349600680&li=marketplace

Sloop CSS Alabama (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/WKYBWJXMP/1-700-css-alabama?optionId=349600585&li=marketplace

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New by SSModel in 1/700:

French heavy cruiser Dupleix
https://www.ebay.com/itm/395358288161

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That looks very “Treaty Cruiser.”

Especially American Treaty Cruiser-ish.

It is very nearly a Pensacola-class or Northampton-class in appearance, with the Pensacola-class probably being closer.

Both have four “turrets,” and the amidships Catapults without Hangar (or did I miss the Hangar???), and the Turrets fore/aft of Catapults/well-deck.

And the same sort of beautiful Tripod Foremast.

I am guessing that the Dupleix is the same class?

MB

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1/700 (All Fall 1942):
HIJMS Nagara
HIJMS Aoba & Kinugasa
USS San Francisco
USS Helena
USS St. Louis
USS Laffey & Farenholt
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16

Dupleix was one of four heavy cruisers of the Suffren class - the second French heavy cruiser class of the Washington Treaty period.

They have nothing to do with the USN ships except of being also Washington cruisers.

All four ships of the Suffren class looked very different - probably the reason, why only now there are the first 1/700 kits of the class - Dupleix and Colbert by SSModel.

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I just built the Colbert. It's a wonderful little kit with a great deal of detail. I have ordered the Dupleix and look forward to receiving it. I hope that they do a Foch as well.

Just received an update mail from Starling Models, with amongst others 2 versions of the Normandy Mulberry harbour in 700 scale, one British and one US. From the small pictures, they look really good

Starling Models Mulberry harbour

3d printed with photoetch, 1/700 waterline Mulberry harbour as used in the aftermath of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The set includes 1 x spud pier, 1 x shore ramp, 1 x intermediate pontoon, 6 x roadway (whale) sections and 8 x beetle floating pontoons.
Includes decals.

SKU: STK30 British version €50,95
British version includes set of vehicles 4 x Matador, 4 x Bedford QL, 4 x Bedford QL tanker, 2 x Leyland Retriever, 4 x CMP, 3 x jeep, 2 x bren carrier and tanks with 6 x M4A4, 2 x Firefly, 4 x Cromwell and 4 x Churchill.
SKU: STK31 US version €50,95
US version includes rhino ferry and vehicles set with 4 x loaded GMC trucks, 4 x GMC with canvas tilt, 2 x GMS open cargo bed, 2 x GMC tanker, 3 x DUKW and 6 x jeep.


I have no connection to them – other than that Mike makes fantastic models

https://starling-models.co.uk/collections/new/products/mulberry-harbour-british-version-1-700
https://starling-models.co.uk/collections/new/products/mulberry-harbour-us-version

New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures in 1/700 (and 1/1250):

Norwegian screw frigate Kong Sverre (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/MRXMJJ549/1-700-hnoms-kong-sverre-1864?optionId=352876190&li=ostatus


https://www.modellmarine.de/index.php/fotogalerien/178-/5193-norsk-maritimt-museum-in-oslo

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%ABKong_Sverre%C2%BB

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Also new by Brown Water Naval Miniatures in 1/700 and 1/1250:

Russian icebreaker Taymyr (Taimir) (1909)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/WTEGZMBX9/1-700-taimir-1909


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taymyr_(1909_icebreaker)

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New by Masters of Military in 1/700:

Dutch frigate Hr. Ms. Van Speijk (1967)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/23SVZXVEV/hmnls-van-speijk-frigate-1967-1-700?optionId=354726193&li=shops

Dutch frigate Hr. Ms. Van Speijk (1977 after modernisation)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/67H4YXXWN/hmnls-van-speijk-frigate-1977-1-700?optionId=354940174&li=shops

Dutch frigate Hr. Ms. Tjerk Hiddes (1985 after modernisation)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/2UQDKCR6P/hmnls-tjerk-hiddes-frigate-1985-1-700?optionId=354946396&li=shops

Dutch frigate Hr. Ms. Isaak Sweers (1985 after modernisation)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/2NPR884HT/hmnls-isaak-sweers-frigate-1985-1-700?optionId=354856520&li=shops


New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures in 1/700:

Protected cruiser USS Chicago (1883)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/N7TVSJJTU/1-700-uss-chicago-1883?optionId=355190426&li=marketplace

Swedish minelayer HMS Älvsnabben
https://www.shapeways.com/product/T8BCBRLSQ/1-700-hswms-alvsnabben?li=marketplace&optionId=354982527

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New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures in 1/700 (and 1/1250):

Italian armoured frigate RN San Martino (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/C6XUU6QJB/1-700-rn-san-martino-1864?optionId=355809149&li=marketplace


Italian armoured frigate RN Regina Maria Pia (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/YFEB52SQF/1-700-rn-regina-maria-pia-1864?optionId=355809233&li=marketplace

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New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures in Maßstab 1/700 (and 1/1250):

Italian armoured frigate RN Re d'Italia (1864)
https://www.shapeways.com/product/8C8YTAMXA/1-700-re-d-italia-1864?optionId=356041311&li=marketplace

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Just released 1/350 Nacken class SS/AIP submarine with option for two different hull lengths (standard initial launch diesel/electric or updated '87 AIP conversion):

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mulsann ... marine&s=0

New by Loose Cannon in 1/700:

Battleship USS Utah (1910 fit)
https://members.boardhost.com/Warship/msg/1722731450.html

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Hey Maxim

the RN Re d'Italia (1864)...--

that's the one that got rammed at the battle of Lissa 1866...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... %281866%29

where the Imperial Austrian Navy won the naval battle of Lissa near the island of Vis, which today belongs to Croatia, against the numerically and technically superior Italian fleet by using ramming tactics on 20 July 1866. This was probably the last naval battle to be won using this tactic. This was also the first naval battle in which newly developed armoured ships were used on a larger scale.

Intriguingly ... the most common image of the battle of Lissa is the unfortunate Re d'Italia
slipping below the waves after the ramming by the ironclad SMS Erzherzog Ferdinand Max as below ;




Now then--as a naval enthusiastic 7 years old child I received this 1000 piece Ravensurger puzzle in 1971 ... and loved the image
pre-internet in the seventies I always assumed that it was the same battle of Lissa--and as a child could never understand
the presence of an image of pure sailing ships and the armoured ram bowed steam powered ironclads... ( and was confused by the presence of English and what appear to be French flags in a battle between Austrians and Italians..

the simple solution a short 50 or so years later is that there were 2 battles of Lissa !

A view of the Battle of Lissa (or Battle of Vis), fought on 13 March 1811 between a combined French and Venetian squadron, commanded by Rear-Admiral Bernard Dubourdieu (1773-1811), and a smaller British squadron, commanded by Captain William Hoste (1780-1828), resulting in a British victory. Napoleonic Wars (1803-15).







and an etching thereof of the 1811 battle

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....I buy them at three times the speed I build 'em.... will I live long enough to empty my stash...?
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

IPMS UK SIG (special interest group) www.finewaterline.com

Yes, that is the one from the battle in 1866.

The Battle of Lissa in 1811 is one of many examples of how copying Nelson's tactics at Trafalgar is usually a bad idea and results in defeat. The victor of Lissa in 1866, Tegetthoff, also copied Nelson's tactics, e.g. at Helgoland in 1864 (resulting in his flagship being severely damaged and retreating to neutral waters).

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New by Brown Water Navy Miniatures (as files for printing or 3D printed, e.g. in 1/700)

Belgian polar research vessel Belgica (1884)

German coastal steamer Kanal (1886)

Peruvian corvette BAP Union/America (ex CSS Texas/Georgia)

Prussian/German corvette SMS Augusta/Victoria (ex Yeddo/Osaka, originally to be named CSS Mississippi/Louisiana)

German frigate Deutschland (1848-52 serving with the Reichsflotte)

German torpedo cruiser SMS Blitz/Pfeil

I got the attached view per e-mail.

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A “What if” ship, I suppose from “World-of-Warships” it appears.

[url=-https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11117065]1/700 IJN Heavy Cruiser “Zao” from Triumph Models.[/url]




It looks to have a hull roughly the same dimensions as the Atago/Takao, and maybe the Tone, but with a layout more like the Mogami-class absent the 1st Turret.

The size overall is hard to guess given either artwork for the Box, or the parts shown below. But I bet it is close to Mogami or Tone-class.



MB

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OMG LOOK! A signature

Working on:


1/700 (All Fall 1942):
HIJMS Nagara
HIJMS Aoba & Kinugasa
USS San Francisco
USS Helena
USS St. Louis
USS Laffey & Farenholt
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16

New from Brown Water Navy Miniatures (a.o. 1/700, 1/1250):

German polar research ship Gauss (1901)

British ship of the line HMS St. Lawrence (1814) (used on the Great Lakes)

French Aviso Zélée (1898, Surprise class, sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1914)

Sloop USS Hartford (1864 fit)

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Where does one find Brown Water Miniatures?

Brown Water Navy Miniatures print themselves, but also sell stl files.

Their contact e-mail address is:
brown.water.miniatures AT gmail.com

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