Russian predreadnought Slava (Glory)

[Gregory Shoda]

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.

The model is in 1/550 scale. It portrays Slava in 1917, shortly before it's demise at Moonsund. By that time the ship's appearance had been much modified from her sisters of the Borodino class.

 

[Tirick]

Is that a scratch-build mate? Brilliant detailing overall; especially considering the scale. Its only what, 22 cm long or so?

Great work!
Sean

 

[paperwarrior]

That is a great model!!
I really like those pre-dreadnoughts and you have certainly done a great job of capturing one of the important ones.
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us.

 

[Gregory Shoda]

Paperwarrior: Thanks for the complements.

Tirick: Thank you, also. Slava is a scratchbuilt. She is a bit small, being under 22 cm or 8.5 inches.