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Dear Boys and Girls, have any of you built the 1/700 Combrig kit of this class of cruiser yet? I would be very interested to know your thoughts on this kit; I have one, but I haven't started building it yet. Here are some images of the second sistership Waldeck-Rousseau......





Croiseur Cuirassé WALDECK-ROUSSEAU; the final French Armoured Cruiser design, one of a class of two sisterships, Edgar Quinet and Waldeck-Rousseau developed from the preceding Ernest Renan design; named for Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, the noted French Republican who had died in 1904.

Builder – Arsenal de Lorient. Designer - Ingénieur L’Homme.

Laid down – June 1906.
Launched – 4th March 1908.
Service – 15th August 1911 to 15th July 1936.

Length 158.9 metres – Breadth 21.51 metres. Displacement 13,874 tons.

Armament 14 x 194mm, 18 x 65mm, 2 x 450mm TT.

Terry (Caravellarella)

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Because L'Oréal keeps telling me I'm worth it!

Maybe it's Maybelline..............

Publication due 30th September 2019!



Terry (Caravellarella)

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Because L'Oréal keeps telling me I'm worth it!

Maybe it's Maybelline..............

Here my model of Waldeck-Rousseau, slightly modified to depict her in 1919 - 100 years ago her crew mutinied, when the ship was deployed to the Black Sea to support the Whites in the Russian Civil War:


Waldeck-Rousseau, 1/700, Combrig

Unfortunately, I have not found much about her 1919 fit, therefore there are many guesses involved. The above mentioned book will hopefully contain more information.

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