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An other when if in history:


If the german-prussian troops in 1870/71 war against france didn't involve in the Paris Commune affair - there might have been an Commune goverment. In 1872 the Times corrospondent in Paris asked the minister of naval affairs: "What will the new french goverment do to face the new mastless british battleship HMS Devastation?"
And the Minister of naval affairs answered proudly: "Rien de tout! What meens absoloutly nothing!"
And so the french build a overwelming coastal battleship with an 42cm breech loader in single barreled turrets with an enormous armour of nearly 1m. Four turrets in en echelon so 3 barrels are able to fire ad any enemy before the ram. .

And the Minister didn't lie - she was called:




The WLmodel. As easily to see the fockmast was altered to a non crowsnest/lookout mast because the ship will fire on mid distance - so it is not of importance.



The coloured plan drawing and the cut out flying bridge.


A non used colour type.


Turret body wrap.


The Flying Bridge.


Turret Anton with open hatch - look on the compound armour.


Here the moneysaving building from old cigarboxes plywood...


The Turret en detail.

Hope you enjoyed it. Looking foreward to your critisism und questions.


Yours
Gorg.

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Lets fill the gap between the ships of the line of Trafalgar and Jutland!
The Avatar is the flag flying over first prussian major ironclad SMS Kronprinz of 1876.

As I found some more pictures on the HDD - I'll show them to you:







It is not everything as parallel as it had had to be :-/



...but it was a very beginning to "do" more any- than something during I had had to lying in bed with a disklap in autum 2009.

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Lets fill the gap between the ships of the line of Trafalgar and Jutland!
The Avatar is the flag flying over first prussian major ironclad SMS Kronprinz of 1876.