Showing posts with label Warships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warships. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2014

More Shots of Pre-Dreadnoughts

Here are more photos of the pre-dreadnought warships with a ruler in the background for scale.
This ship looks to be flying the British Ensign. Looking at Janes 1906-1907, this ship could be used for  Queen, London, Formidable, Duncan or Canopus Class battleship. It could also pass for the Eclipse class cruiser.

This ship is flying the French flag. This one could pass for Jurien De La Graviere,  Aube,  Montcalm, Desaix, and Guichen battleship.

This ship seems to be flying the imperial Russian ensign, although the cross is in green instead of blue.

Although not flying an ensign, this appears to be a German Von Bulow or Roon class armored cruiser. Although the photo doesn't show it too well, this ship has quite a lot of detail of it's casements.

This ship seems to be flying the German ensign, but doesn't resemble any German warships in Janes. It could pass for several British armored cruisers.


Another ship flying the British ensign.  This could pass for several  battleships or cruisers.

This could be used as a cruiser for many nations.

Russian fleet steaming into battle.

This one is painted in the style of the United States fleet peacetime.  Once again it could pass for ships in several fleets.

Of course, my statements about what the ships might represent is just my opinion. In the end when they see action it will be in  fictional combat between imaginations.








Friday, January 31, 2014

The Fleet's In !

I recently bought two lots of old semi round warships. They are good representations of pre-dreadnought warships, as can be seen in the photos. In all there are 13 ships.






A nice French style warship.