These are eight scout cruisers completed in 1905 and modeled in 1/6000 scale.
From Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, pages 84-85:
“These eight cruisers were intended to work in company with destroyers as scouts, to lead torpedo attacks and to back up their flotillas when attacked by enemy destroyers. The Admiralty provided a broad specification …. for a 25kt ship, with a 1-1/2 inch protective deck or equivalent side armour, shallow draught … 10-12pdr, 8-3pdr and 2TT. …[This] resulted in four sub-classes … that varied substantially in form, machinery and structure. … During 1911/12 they were rearmed with 9-4in guns.”
This scenario was inspired by the Russian attack on a convoy of iron ore sailing from Sweden to Germany described in “After Jutland“, Chapter 6, pages 90-91. The Russian attack group of destroyers has a close cover force of cruisers and a distant cover force of dreadnoughts. The Germans expect the operation and counter with their own cruiser and dreadnought supporting forces.
Winds WSW at 5 knots. Sea state 2. Visibility 6 NM.
Convoy escorts (one armed merchant cruiser and two groups of trawlers) attempt to distract the attacking Russian destroyers.
The escorts make smoke.
The convoy makes smoke and heads south at its best speed of 10 knots.
The convoy is destroyed. The old German cruisers are losing the fight with the Russian cruisers.
German dreadnoughts are sighted.
The Russian dreadnoughts press on southwestward to support their cruisers.
The German dreadnought divisions deploy into a battleline while the Russian dreadnoughts reverse course and head northeast.
Cruisers and destroyers clear the line of fire for the dreadnought action.
With the visibility only 12,000 yards the battlelines close to under 10,000 yards. Hits accumulate rapidly.
The two lead Russian dreadnoughts are overwhelmed by a fortunate series of hits from four German dreadnoughts.
With only two Russian dreadnoughts left to face six relatively intact German dreadnoughts, we called the game. The convoy and most of the German cruisers had been destroyed, but the loss of the Russians dreadnoughts was a high price to pay for meeting the mission objective.
This is a Dutch dreadnought design from 1913, modeled in 1/6000 scale. Various designs were proposed from 1912 through 1914, as described in Warship International No. 4, 1988, No. 1, 1989 and No. 4, 1989. The 1913 quadruple turret design was chosen because it differed the most from contemporary German designs.
1917 Russian design for a Black Sea Battleship. The link has several 16-inch gun designs. Version 2 of the four variations by V.P. Kostenko (at the bottom of the page) was modeled since it was among the later designs (1917) and matches the drawings provided.
German Post-Jutland Battleship Design Studies. Battleship study L20eɑ was modeled since it was selected on 11 September 1918 as the basis for the next German battleship (Dodson, “The Kaiser’s Battlefleet” page 126). Battlecruiser study GK4541 was modeled since it was among the last designs considered (Dodson, “The Kaiser’s Battlefleet” page 127) and since it was included in the Avalanche Press game “Jutland 1919“.
Tillman Battleships. Design IV-2 was modeled since it was the one presented to Congress early in 1917.
Left: 1917 Russian Black Sea battleship Version 2. Right: La Motte-Picquet class French cruiser.
Left: 1917 Russian Black Sea battleship Version 2. Right: La Motte-Picquet class French cruiser.
Left: Austro-Hungarian Project V battleship. Right: Austro-Hungarian Project VI battlecruiser.
Left: Austro-Hungarian Project V battleship. Right: Austro-Hungarian Project VI battlecruiser.
Left: German battleship study L20eɑ. Right: German battlecruiser study GK4541.
Left: German battleship study L20eɑ. Right: German battlecruiser study GK4541.
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