today is the 70 year anniversary of the annihilation of Japanese Leyte convoy TA-5 and the escort / light cruiser Yasoshima, so I prepared an article for my buddies at http://www.modellmarine.de - I also finished three modified 2nd class transports of the T-103 class (build from Tamiyas T-101 class) which met their fates alongside Yasoshima.
Check out the full article (in German) and all pitures HERE
I'm not sure if this is "allowed" in the model ship community, but I photo shopped some of the pictures and added smoke to the stacks. This was great fun, so I decided to add some drama to the battle scenes, too
but the wakes, the white cotton stuff and the planes are real 
What a nice day; Yasoshima, T-113, T-142 and T-161 just left Manila and are northbound near the coast of Luzon.
Suddenly, US carrier planes from TF38 appear over the doomed ships...
The flagship of TransRon1, the ex-Chinese light cruiser Yasoshima, moments before being mortally wounded by a torpedo.
In the back one of the attacking Avengers just scored a direct hit on T-113!
T-161 swinging hard to port trying to avoid American bombs. All three LSTs were sunk during this action, the small convoy was a total loss...
Non-photo shopped pictures of the models in the original article.
Have fun
