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	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.
	Duke of York This is a Revell 1/1200 kit.
	Duke of York This was my first kit in this scale so I did it on plain gray to keep things simple. These ships were also given camo schemes.
	Duke of York The obligatory overhead view.
	Duke of York I left out the most fragile antenna pieces, but I have a feeling the front and rear masts won't last long either.
	Duke of York The kit was relatively simple to put together.
	Duke of York The turrets don't really rotate because the fittings are so tight.
	More ships This set is excellent value for the price.
	Scharnhorst Here she is in all her glory.
	Scharnhorst This is another Revell 1/1200 kit.
	Scharnhorst I think this build went better then the Duke Of York. I guess I'm learning something.
	Scharnhorst I have another of these to be done as Gneisenau.
	Scharnhorst Only time will tell how durable the fiddly bits are...
	Scharnhorst The obligatory overhead view.
	Scharnhorst I'm not totally satisfied with the deck, and I didn't even try to paint the swastikas.
	Scharnhorst I had a small accident and lost one of the secondary turrets. I made a replacament from sprue and bits of wire. It's not pretty but it's mostly hidden under the crane.
	Emden Locating this out of print book (for a not outrageous price) was slightly difficult, but I managed to get a copy. I've also ordered the newer book, they should be interesting to compare.
	Naval Attack! Ok, I finally got around to painting these...
	Naval Attack! The obligatory overhead view.
	Naval Attack! They are 1/1200 scale metal models. I bought them used but I think they are from MY Models.
	Naval Attack! Three German Narvik class destroyers were in the set I bought. Doing the Narvik battles in this scale might be interesting but perhaps ironically these models can't be used for that...
	Naval Attack! Somewhat more obscure British ships, Black Swan class sloops. These were convoy defense ships and sub hunters, too slow to participate in main fleet actions.
	Naval Attack! Two Tribal class destroyers. These were the only ones I actually had some painting reference for.
	Naval Attack! Two British Battle class destroyers even though the models are marked CL for some strange reason. The final one is a US Fletcher class destroyer.
	Ancient Galleys These are 1/1200 galleys from NavWar.
	Ancient Galleys Yes, I know they left the sails away when fighting, but they just look so much better with the sail.
	Ancient Galleys I think these are actually Byzantine dromons.
	Galleys A selection of ancient galleys spanning from the Persian wars to Byzantine. I had these half-finished on my desk for a very long time... a couple of years. Now I just have to decide how to base them...
	Galleys I decided to leave the masts off. I actually had the masts painted a long time ago, I just didn't glue them in. The blob of paint badly covers the hole.
	Galleys Byzantine dromons. These are all NavWar 1/1200 models, but the casting quality is really spotty.
	Galleys Another downside of having these on my desk for some years is that I no longer have any idea which models these are supposed to be.
	ACW Fleet Here's my ACW riverine forces. All are NavWar 1/1200 models.
	ACW Fleet I've these for some years, but I just recently based them.
	ACW Fleet The Maury gunboats. This was supposed to be a class of 100 mass-produced guboats, but only these two actually saw service.
	ACW Fleet Blockade runner.
	ACW Fleet The famous CSS Virginia. Or Merrimack, if you prefer. But it certainly wasn't the only vessel to change owners in this war.
	ACW Fleet CSS Manassas, or maybe it's a crash landed UFO?
	ACW Fleet Another nifty CSS ram, the Albemarle.
	ACW Fleet Classic sternwheeler riverboat, USS Forest Rose.
	ACW Fleet USS Tyler, a timberclab sidewheeler gunboat.
	ACW Fleet USS Essex, pretty typical casemate ironclad.
	ACW Fleet The classic USS Monitor, the first turreted warship in history. Even though it was primarily a land war, ACW saw a lot of firsts in naval warfare.
	ACW Fleet USS Chippewa, a gunboat.
	ACW Fleet USS Chippewa from the other side. I really don't know what those outrigger thingies are.
	ACW Fleet USS Cairo, another typical casemate ironclad.
	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 K�nig steams looking for the enemy.
	WWI Hochseeflotte K�nig 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 K�nig 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 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 N�rnberg...
	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 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 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 K�nigsberg.
	WWI British ships Otranto, one of the numerous Armed Merchant Cruisers the British used.
	WWI British ships Carnarvon and Cradock's flagship, Good Hope.
	WWI British ships The British steam on.