Battleships&Knights updates

[Stefano]

Started to reorder the huge amount of naval documentation I collected over the years in a new, more complete and ordered site (my old one is http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bk/).

The site will be organized in sections:

Maritime Museums (enormous collection of pictures I collected worldwide over the years)
Never Weres (articles and drawings)
Naval articles (from Italian not so widespread docs and other sources)
Warship models (a few of mine and others)

focused on the 1906-1950 timeframe, opened to external contributions. I decided to use wordpress as technology as the boards, while being of invaluable value, tends to abruptly disappear (some of us survived four incarnations of the warship project board, the knowledge available there did not). Furthermore, I hope the comment technology in wordpress will help to keep discussions and informations focused on the single warship design in the article.

The new site address is: The new B&K site: https://stefsap.wordpress.com

Thanks for you attention.

[Chuck Bauer]

Stefano, I remember talking with you when I built my Roma, and have since looked at your site several times.

I just clicked on your link and the silhouette of the Italian battleship made me gasp.. Bellisima, bellisimo, splendida!

The website itself is interesting and the models are fascinating. Quite a collection!

P.S.
Your "grandfather" looks good, too.

[Stefano]

Hi Chuck, thanks! That picture is a great job by Steve Nuttal, a good guy we all miss, made taking a detailed LD a putting it on a dramatic background; here it is in all of its glory: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bk/amici/Stev ... sunset.jpg.

More and more things coming...

My Grandfather thanks you!

[Stefano]

Added today:

two models from the Bremerhaven Maritime Museum, the 1/100 SMS Konig Albert and the SMS Mainz, and the 1/50 (?) cutaway model of the RN Italia (1880) preserved at the Museo Storico Navale, Venice.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... 100-model/
https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... 100-model/
https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... way-model/

[Stefano]

Added today:

1/100 Richelieu, Musee Nationale de la Marine, Brest: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... 100-model/

1/200 RN Impero to fleet carrier study, Museo storico navale di Venezia: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... 200-model/

Large scale model of the Training cruiser Nadezhda, Royal Bulgarian navy: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... zhda-1898/

[MichaelB]

What a great website. I had been unaware of it until today. The Impero design study is very interesting. Do you know what guns would have been in the mounts fore and aft of the island? Thank you very much for a fascinating and informative site.

[Stefano]

What a great website. I had been unaware of it until today. The Impero design study is very interesting. Do you know what guns would have been in the mounts fore and aft of the island? Thank you very much for a fascinating and informative site.

Thank you Michael; more to follow . They are the 4 3*152 turrets provided for any Vittorio Veneto class BB. I will write a short article about the way that model was identified not as an RN Aquila variant, but as an Impero conversion study. Source is "Storia Militare".

[Stefano]

Added the 1/48 model of HMS Hood in her original configuration preserved at Riverside Museum of Transport, Glasgow: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/0 ... 148-model/

[NCMac]

Stefano,

I can only echo "Great Website". Always nice to have another resource and your subjects are well chosen. Not material easily found elsewhere. Particularly enjoy the Italian Navy topics.

Best wishes and many thanks,

Mac

[Stefano]

Stefano,

I can only echo "Great Website". Always nice to have another resource and your subjects are well chosen. Not material easily found elsewhere. Particularly enjoy the Italian Navy topics.

Best wishes and many thanks,

Mac

Thanks, Mac! More to follow, the Regia Marina is not well covered in English language, trying to fill some gaps .

[K494]

Great website,Stefano.

Scott

[Stefano]

Thank you Scott

Added today, all from the Mus�e National del la Marine, Paris the:

Hoche (Ironclad)
Tourville (D610 frigate)
Tigre (WWII, that served after her scuttling and raising with the Regia Marina flag as FR 23, too)

All models in 1/100, AFAIK.

[Stefano]

Published today:

Tha AH building projects, 1914-18, second part: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 8-part-ii/
The use of HC naval guns in coastal defenses in Japan: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... -defences/
The D series design of battleships by General Ferrati, 1915: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... e-designs/

[Stefano]

Published today:

1/96 HMS Argus, Imperial war museum: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 196-model/
1/48 (?) HMS Alamein builder's model, Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... ers-model/
"Grillo" and "MTM" assault boats, Palazzo di Marina, Roma: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... le-models/

[Stefano]

Update of today, pictures of the following models:

1/100 Battleship RN Bante Alighieri, La Spezia
1/200 Aircraft Carrier KM Graf Zeppelin, Bremerhaven
1/100 Crusiser VMF Sverdlov, Saint Petersburg.

[Stefano]

Thi is a not so common, large scale (1/200) drawing for the first of these very fine and interesting cruisers:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 0-plans-i/

[Stefano]

Added today, from the Imperial War Museum

the 1/48 KM Admiral Hipper: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 148-model/

and the 1/96 cut away HMS Sheffield: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... way-model/

[Stefano]

Added two of the three Ansaldo's "Super Washington" cruiser design for the Armada, and the 1912's Diesel Battleships designed by Junkers. I believe all of them would be great modeling subjects!

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... -plans-ii/

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 0-plans-i/

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... attleship/

[Stefano]

Added today, both from Museo Tecnico Navale, La Spezia:

1/100 RN Leonardo da Vinci: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 100-model/

and

1/70 RN Regina Margherita: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/1 ... 170-model/

[Stefano]

Preserved at the Palazzo di Marina, Rome, this large scale model of RS Scir�, author of the Alexandria raid.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/2 ... ale-model/