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	WWI German destroyers Four V-1 and four V-25 class destroyers in 1/3000 from NavWar. I had had these for a couple of years before I dug them up and finally applied some paint.
	WWI German destroyers V-1 class, I think. A bit boring, but hey, it's not my fault they painted them matt black all over!
	WWI German destroyers V-25 class destroyer. Even though I'm not 100% satisfied with them, I think the bow and stern wakes add a lot to the mini.
	WWI German destroyers Two destroyers viewed from the rear.
	WWI German destroyers Same two destroyers from the front.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Kaiser from the stern.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Kaiser coming at you.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Cruisers and capital ships arrayed for inspection.
	WWI Hochseeflotte This is the contents of a NavWar 1/3000 WWI German fleet starter pack: 5 battleships, 1 battlecruiser, 4 light cruisers and 8 destroyers. This pack is good value (you basically get the destroyers for free), but some of the other ones are not so, because they tend to include projected and other relatively useless ships.
	WWI Hochseeflotte CL Frankfurt cruising the high seas.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Frankfurt seen from above.
	WWI Hochseeflotte BC Von Der Tann sets sail.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Von Der Tann from above. WWI naval designs are actually more interesting than the later ones, as the 'best' designs had not yet emerged.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Light cruisers Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. The older German light cruisers were really only super-sized destroyers with their 4.1 inch main battery.
	WWI Hochseeflotte CL Brummer, designed as a minelayer.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Light cruisers Brummer and Bremse.
	WWI Hochseeflotte BB König steams looking for the enemy.
	WWI Hochseeflotte König from the air. Actually, I have no idea whether the ship's boats were really painted white in wartime, but it looks better this way.
	WWI Hochseeflotte König again.
	WWI Hochseeflotte This stubby little puppy is the BB Westfalen. Nice wing turret layout.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Westfalen.
	WWI Hochseeflotte BB Bayern, one of the German 15 inch battlewagons.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Bayern seen from the bow.
	WWI Hochseeflotte BB Helgoland. Same basic turret layout as with Westfalen, but not quite as crowded as the ship is longer and has more graceful lines.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Helgoland seen from above.
	WWI Hochseeflotte I knew this box would come in handy one day...
	WWI Hochseeflotte BB Kaiser cruising on 'realistic' water.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Aerial view of the Kaiser.
	WWI British ships The British present an ideal bombing target. Too bad there aren't any viable bombers around...
	WWI British ships This is the contents of the NavWar 1/3000 WWI British starter pack.
	WWI British ships A K-class destroyer, Ambuscade. For some bright reason the admiralty renamed the Acasta -class as K-class, even though none of the ships have names starting with K. And what the heck is an ambuscade anyway?
	WWI British ships Ambuscade close up.
	WWI British ships Light cruisers Champion and Calliope, in late war setup.
	WWI British ships Here's the Calliope.
	WWI British ships Light cruisers Birmingham and Nottingham.
	WWI British ships Birmingham. WWI era light cruisers tended to be much smaller than the ones in WWII.
	WWI British ships Battlecruiser Lion. Darn long ship, almost didn't fit on the base.
	WWI British ships Interesting inner courtyard... The British painted the turret tops on their capital ships green.
	WWI British ships KGV, a popular name for British battleships. Unlike some WWI battleships, these did not survive to WWII. They were scrapped and another ship bore the same name.
	WWI British ships Battlecruiser Invincible, one of the victors of the extremely one-sided battle near Falklands.
	WWI British ships The one that started it all: Dreadnought, though again, this was not the first ship to bear this name.
	WWI British ships But even Jackie Fisher didn't get everything right at first. Dreadnought's turret layout is designed for stern chases which unduly limits its broadside capability.
	WWI British ships Royal Sovereign. These big ships with 15 inch guns mostly made it to WWII.
	WWI British ships Queen Ellie, pride and joy of the royal navy.
	WWI British ships M-class destroyers.
	WWI British ships Mischief up close.
	WWI Hochseeflotte All German foreign stations ships, 1914. Plus a couple who weren't really there...
	WWI Hochseeflotte The sisters lead the way.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Weird funnels on these ones.
	WWI Hochseeflotte These three light cruisers were in Graf Spee's squadron at Falklands.
	WWI Hochseeflotte The ill-fated light cruisers from above.
	WWI Hochseeflotte These two are just along for the ride. They weren't really at foreign stations at the start of the war.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Dresden up close. Unfortunately the model was pretty badly cast with serious mold misalignment.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Leipzig and her thick funnels.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Why, isn't in Nürnberg...
	WWI Hochseeflotte Lone raider of the West Indies, unfortunately her career was cut short by an ammo explosion.
	WWI Hochseeflotte The Devil of the Rujifi delta. What a wonderful way to spend a war...
	WWI Hochseeflotte Emden, the gallant little thorn in the Empire's backside. Truth is stranger than fiction.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Rostock was safely in Germany.
	WWI Hochseeflotte Bremen was also not there...
	WWI British ships British squadron on the move.
	WWI British ships These ships (almost) complete the forces necessary to fight Coronel and Falklands.
	WWI British ships Inflexible. Back in the day, that was a virtue I guess.
	WWI British ships Light cruisers Bristol and Glasgow.
	WWI British ships Canopus could have been at Coronel, while Goliath took part in the search for Königsberg.
	WWI British ships Otranto, one of the numerous Armed Merchant Cruisers the British used.
	WWI British ships Cornwall and Monmouth, two County-class cruisers. For whatever reason, the British favored these cut-rate armored cruisers for foreign work, a total of seven were deployed in foreign stations in 1914.
	WWI British ships Carnarvon and Cradock's flagship, Good Hope.
	WWI British ships The British steam on.
	British destroyers Two old destroyers in Far East service.
	Australian navy Aussie destroyers steaming on.
	British light cruisers These obsolete old cruisers still found some use in the Far East.
	Commonwealth cruisers Australian and British light cruisers of somewhat more modern design.
	British light cruisers The sisters Yarmouth and Dartmouth.
	Foreign stations British and Commonwealth ships not stationed in or near Europe.
	Spare ships When I bought my Foreign Stations ships, these were among the extras I got. They lack name tags as I hadn't quite decided yet which names to give them. Some extra ships were named, usually because the class was so small it didn't really leave any choice.
	Old British cruisers These old cruisers still found use in faraway places. Despite spanning the globe, the British Empire did not believe in even distribution of naval forces, practically all new ships were with the Home Fleet. But then again, they did prove the ability to send them to far corners of the world at short notice.
	Newer British cruisers Pretty standard designs by WWI, seriously outgunning older light cruisers.
	Yarmouth and Dartmouth Sailing abreast.
	British River -class destroyers Later renamed the E-class. Many different boats but grouped together based on ability rather than exact design. These puppies were in China Station in 1914, and pretty obsolete by then.
	Heavy cruisers The Minotaur was one of the most modern ships abroad. Europa wasn't really there, she just came in the same pack with Niobe.
	Foreign stations The last batch of foreign stations ships.
	Heavy cruisers Monmouth -class heavy cruisers on display. This 'economy' cruiser was popular for faraway deployments.
	Battleships Modern battlecruiser Australia and two obsolete battlewagons represent the heavy section of ships.
	Light Cruisers in New Zealand New Zealanders paid for the dreadnought battlecruiser New Zealand and got these obsolete piles of junk to defend their shores. Wasn't the Admiralty sporting, eh?
	Cruiser line Light cruisers arrayed for inspection.
	Cruiser line Another view of the light cruisers.
	CL Hyacinth Now, where's Onslow?
	CL Astraea Originally in South Africa.
	CL Wallaroo This puppy was used as a guard ship, which probably is testament to its condition.
	Monmouth -cruisers CA Lancaster and a row of Monmouths.
	CA Kent Kent was at Falklands, but several mistakes by me delayed her painting.
	CA Minotaur Slightly better than Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Legend has it that the captains agreed pre-war that Minotaur wouldn't use some of her guns to make the fight fairer, should the counterparts meet under hostile terms. We never found out whether the promise would have held.
	Obsolete cruisers Niobe and Europa were among the latest of the first class protected cruisers in British employ, but still painfully obsolete in 1914.
	Merchant ships I bought some prey for the warships. These are painted in more peacetime colors to get a little variety for the all-gray look.
	Merchant ships Obligatory overhead view.
	Merchant ships Originally, I intended to label these based on gross tonnage, but that information proved hard to get for some ship models. These are actually liners but I labeled them as cargo anyway.
	Merchant ships Small originally Japanese coastal haulers.
	Merchant ships Standard A/B type ships, about 5000 gross tons.
	Merchant ships Standard F type ships, about 6500 gross tons.