Battleships&Knights updates

[Stefano]

The "Yuri Gagarin" in 1/200 is preserved at Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology, Saint Petersburg. I would recommend this fascinating museum to anyone interested in the bold history of space exploration.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/2 ... 200-model/

[Stefano]

The KuK Anaconda torpedoboat, 1/100:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/2 ... 100-model/

added an article on MN light cruisers develepoment afeter WWI, from WI:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/2 ... 1910-1926/

[Stefano]

The third and probably best of the cruiser design by Ansaldo for Spain, 1940.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/11/3 ... plans-iii/

[Stefano]

Added today the Builder' model of the "Plassy" or "Sharpshooter" class torpedo boats:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ers-model/

and the HSwMS "Mode" destroyer:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... 100-model/

[Stefano]

added today two builder's models:

IRN Bavarian: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ers-model/

IRN Varyag: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ers-model/

[Stefano]

Today I welcome a new contributor to Battleships&Knights, many of you know already, Akos Gergely, founder of the very missed Warship Projects Board.

Of course, his first detailed and comprehensive article is about Montana class. Drawings in the article by another esteemed member of the old board, Harold Winkel.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... s-genesis/

[Stefano]

The large scale model (1/200?) of the RN Aquila, the nearly completed carrier converted from the liner Roma, preserved at the Italian Navy Academy, Lenghorn:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ale-model/

[Stefano]

Two 1/48 builder's models, from the Chatam Naval Museum:

The Jervis Bay armed merchant: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ers-model/

and

HMS Commonwealth pre dreadnought: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/0 ... ers-model/

[Stefano]

From the fantastic Naval Museum of the Royal Netherlands Navy in Den Helder:

1905 G8 torpedoboat 1/60: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/1 ... 160-model/

(I wasn't able to find a reference page on this class of units, any help welcomed)

Der Zeven Provienci�n (armored ship) 1/100: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/1 ... 100-model/

[Stefano]

HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1930 configuration. 1/128 model, preserved at the time of pictures at the London Science Museum:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/1 ... 1930-1128/

[Stefano]

The splendid 1725 cut away model of the KuK U27, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien.

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/1 ... model-125/

[Stefano]

The large scale model of the armored cruiser RN Pisa:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/2 ... ale-model/

[Stefano]

Builder's model of the IJN Yoshino cruiser (1893):

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/2 ... ers-model/

[Stefano]

An interesting article on IJN shipbuilding, from WI N�1, 1987

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/12/2 ... 1915-1945/

[Stefano]

Added pictures of the original "Maiale" (SLC) preserved at Sacrario delle bandiere in Rome:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/01/0 ... sa-maiale/

[Stefano]

Bulgarian Navy DD Georgi Dimitrov 1/75 model
Preserved at the Bulgarian Navy Museum in Varna.
https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/01/0 ... 175-model/

[Stefano]

HMS Hood, 1/192
Preserved at the IWM, London. Full album here: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/hms-hood-1196/

[Stefano]

The 1/40 model of the Vos/Panter torpedo boat of the Royal Netherlands Navy:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/01/2 ... oboat-140/

[Stefano]

The large scale model of KuK Novara (later MN Thionville), preserved at Museo storico navale in Venice:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/01/2 ... hionville/

[Stefano]

A large scale model of HMS Ajax, preserved at Chatam:

https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2016/02/0 ... ale-model/