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Below are 4 photos of my most recently completed model, Slava. The first shows the color drawings that I worked from. It is obvious that the shade of blue of my model is off. I had to live with that as I did not have a source of card in the right shade of blue and I don't choose to paint...

As with Golden Bear, I haver a keen interest in French predreadnought battleships, which were unparalleled for their often odd appearance. Golden Bear has built a beautiful model of this ship already, but I wanted to build one for myself. My project was a much more modest and less detailed...

Irantala asked to see photos of my most recent model, Shikishima. I have not posted any photos of it until now because I am not satisfied of its versimilitude with the original. I used Japanese plans, which may have not been as well executed as they appeared at first light. I post this one...

The Russian battleship Marat (after modernization) is in my mind one of the most striking battleships ever built. Many years ago (1998 or 1999), I built a model of Marat based upon rudimentary drawings that I had obtained from INRO. My father-in-law was very interested in my ship model...

This is a model I made a long time ago. It was built by mistake in 1/500 scale. At the time, I envisioned building one example of each US dreadnought class in plastic or paper. In paper, I build in 1/550 scale although I am not particular in plastic. I discovered the scale error when I laid...

My last build was the Tsarist battleship Tsesarevich. I took it to our local IPMS meeting where our club photographer took some nice shots of it. It is my first attempt at using a white color scheme. I was worried that it would get smeared, but somehow I avoided that pitfall. I actually...

Battleship Potemkin is #7 in a series of Tsarist battleships that I have been working on over a long period of time. It was originally named Kniaz Potemkin Tavricheskey but was renamed Panteleimon &Boretz za svobodou. In protest to mismanagement of the navy her crew mutinied in June 1905...

Petropavlovsk was the first Russian battleship that compared favorably with contemporary European designs. She was the flagship of the Russian First Pacific Squadron during the Russo-Japanese War. Tragically, she struck a mine while maneuvering to engage the Japanese fleet, resulting in her...

Hopefully, I have posted two images of Sissoi Velikey. I apologize for the lack of clarity. I have been fiddling around with my Microsoft image software, which said that this is the preferred size for E-mail.

Hope this works. I've been struggling with attachments.

Below are images of my model of the Tsarist predreadnought battleship Rostislav. Rostislav served with the Black Seas fleet during WWI. This model is part of an ongoing project of mine to build samples of the Tsarist predreadnought fleet. While playing with my Kodak Easyshare...

Tri Svatiteliya was the second Tsarist battleship that I built. Three pictures are shown below. Tri Svatiteliya's superstructure was later reduced (cut down) so that her appearance was markedly different during WWI, in which she was active in operations with the Black Sea fleet.

One of my ongoing projects is building a series of non-kit models of Tsarist predreadnought battleship classes. I will be posting a few pictures over the next few days of those ships that I have completed so far. I hope you will find it interesting.

Attached are images of my recently completed model of the Italian battleship Ammiraglio di Saint Bon (ca 1902). The pictures are not too clear. I no longer have the model as a few days after completion, I offered some of my models to my older daughter and she selected the Ammiraglio di Saint...