Krasnyi Kavkaz

Krasnyi Kavkaz (Red Caucasus) was originally laid down in 1913 but due to minor mishaps including wars and revolutions it wasn't completed (to a much modified design) until 1932!  Happily my version didn't take quite as long to build.  Though a 1/1200 cruiser I based it on a 1/700 destroyer hull (see the earlier post).  Although only one such vessel existed in real life I was unable to resist building two of them. 

The photo below shows the completed builds before paint intervened.  Turrets and funnels are balsa. Boats, catapults, cranes and foremasts from the spares box.   The gun barrels and mine rails (at the blunt end) are florists wire.