Dear Friends,
die to illness I wasn't able to build a lot and stopped a plenty of projects.
To do a restart I picked out an Oriel kit from my pile of Models (surviving a fresh water leckage in the cellar) and decided to go for
I(mperial R(ussian) N(nay) SEVASTOPOL the ship easy to distinuish from her two sisters as her funnels are shorter than the crane pole inmid.
Her her sister IRN POLTAVA hhows the well rounded hull (and the second source to distinuishing the windows' number in the wheelhouse). She is a typical pre-dreadnought (Loa 115ms/Lcwl:112,47ms/Displ.:11.354ts) with her twin pair of 305mms on both ends and a huge numbers of 152mm artillery (boardside two in twin turrets two in single cassematte mounting) and six 457mm Tts (4 above/2 below CWL) and a mixture of a dozen 3pdr/47mm and 28 1pdr/37mm QFguns
Certainly in her pacific colour sheme a lot of details will be easier to be seen but the kit is printed in her Baltic/Black Sea blueblack hull delivery.
Of intrest may be the Admirality achor (here on IRN POLTAVA with the longer than pole funnels and a four windows wheelhouse's front) in his tremendouse size and
this astonishing edge simply cut into/out-off the hull's side. This pictures shows also the 47mm Hotchkiss guns in question in hull were QF guns - not revolver cannons (may be in the crow nests?) as I hoped.
Here some of the dockyard's plans that are surviving giving some ideas about what is in the hull that may bee viewable through the bulleyes - in particular:
The officiers' accomodation aside the center cassematte's 152mm single guns.
All three Shops took part in the Russian-Japanish War of 1904/05 and SEVASTOPOL was badly damaged during an artillery duell against IJN MIKASA. Returning to harbour she swung out her torpedonets awaiting Fürther attacks. These Camel during the very next nichts: Here Nets we're able catching 79 of 80 Japanese torpedos - but this one passing over the nett sunk deeper by a befoe damaged pole hit her most badly in the very end. She managed by defending herself to sink two torpedoboats and damaging six during their attack runs against her. So she was a very expensive prey for the Tenno's navy - killing 35 men and five officiers.
On the 02.Jan.1905 the land fortifications capitulated and now the single hit counted worthy: the Japanese torpedo damaged the propeller so the hope the escape the Battleship to Vladivostock was ruined and Admiral Essen decided to scuttle the ship in 55ms deep water instead. She still is there outside in her wet grave untill today.
This as a little historical background for those interested in why I choose her from her tripple.
die to illness I wasn't able to build a lot and stopped a plenty of projects.
To do a restart I picked out an Oriel kit from my pile of Models (surviving a fresh water leckage in the cellar) and decided to go for
I(mperial R(ussian) N(nay) SEVASTOPOL the ship easy to distinuish from her two sisters as her funnels are shorter than the crane pole inmid.
Her her sister IRN POLTAVA hhows the well rounded hull (and the second source to distinuishing the windows' number in the wheelhouse). She is a typical pre-dreadnought (Loa 115ms/Lcwl:112,47ms/Displ.:11.354ts) with her twin pair of 305mms on both ends and a huge numbers of 152mm artillery (boardside two in twin turrets two in single cassematte mounting) and six 457mm Tts (4 above/2 below CWL) and a mixture of a dozen 3pdr/47mm and 28 1pdr/37mm QFguns
Certainly in her pacific colour sheme a lot of details will be easier to be seen but the kit is printed in her Baltic/Black Sea blueblack hull delivery.
Of intrest may be the Admirality achor (here on IRN POLTAVA with the longer than pole funnels and a four windows wheelhouse's front) in his tremendouse size and
this astonishing edge simply cut into/out-off the hull's side. This pictures shows also the 47mm Hotchkiss guns in question in hull were QF guns - not revolver cannons (may be in the crow nests?) as I hoped.
Here some of the dockyard's plans that are surviving giving some ideas about what is in the hull that may bee viewable through the bulleyes - in particular:
The officiers' accomodation aside the center cassematte's 152mm single guns.
All three Shops took part in the Russian-Japanish War of 1904/05 and SEVASTOPOL was badly damaged during an artillery duell against IJN MIKASA. Returning to harbour she swung out her torpedonets awaiting Fürther attacks. These Camel during the very next nichts: Here Nets we're able catching 79 of 80 Japanese torpedos - but this one passing over the nett sunk deeper by a befoe damaged pole hit her most badly in the very end. She managed by defending herself to sink two torpedoboats and damaging six during their attack runs against her. So she was a very expensive prey for the Tenno's navy - killing 35 men and five officiers.
On the 02.Jan.1905 the land fortifications capitulated and now the single hit counted worthy: the Japanese torpedo damaged the propeller so the hope the escape the Battleship to Vladivostock was ruined and Admiral Essen decided to scuttle the ship in 55ms deep water instead. She still is there outside in her wet grave untill today.
This as a little historical background for those interested in why I choose her from her tripple.