The battleship collection

ikar01

I'm building my osn a collection of 1/350th WWII battleships.   So far I have the Musashi, Prince of Wales, and the Missouri.  I still need thone from Italy and France.  Did Russia have a Battleship?  I never heard of one but maybe they did for a short timr.  Who else would have been using them during the war, and are there any decent kits available?

 

The Russians had a couple WWI era battleships I do believe. You could probably also use a German ship in the collection as well.

the Russians had battleships during ww2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battleships_of_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union

Italian battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_Italy

French battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_France

American battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_the_United_States

British battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_the_United_Kingdom

Japanese battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_Japan

German battleships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II_battleships_of_Germany

I would recommend the following for Battleship models.

Trumpeter 1/350 RN Roma (Italy)

Trumpeter 1/350 Richelieu (France)

Zveda 1/350 Marat (Soviet)

Revell 1/350 Bismarck (Germany)

All are decent kits that can be added to with PE to make them look great. 

Steve

Zvesda offers offers four Russian Dreadnought battleships. In addition to Marat, they offer Sevastopol, Poltava, and Gangut (also released by Revell of Germany).  They also have several pre-Dreadnoughts.  None of these models are simple duplications of the others; each is a different kit representing that particular ship.

Marat has the distinction of having been sunk by a single 2,000 pound bomb dropped by famed Stuka pilot and ace Hans Ulrich Rudel.

Bill

There's a wiki article to answer (at least there) the question. A few other countries had older dreadnoughts, but those are outliers.

Sorry to go off topic, but it's an interesting subject.

There was a Dutch cruiser, the HNLMS Soerabaja, that was sunk by Japanese bombers in February 1942 in the Dutch Indies port of Surabaya (her namesake).

Her main armamant was a pair of 283mm guns (11 inch).

The Japanese raised her up and she saw action in the IJN for another year before she was sunk by the Allies in 1943. This time she stayed down.

Bill