I dug out my assembled, based and undercoated French pre dreadnoughts yesterday, which I'm planning to paint later this month, then realised that I better provide some appropriate opposition. The obvious choice, other than the Royal Navy again, is the Italian Regia Marina, with its cutting edge turret ships and fast battleships of the 1880's, which are an ideal match for the French Mediterranean fleet. The Tumbling Dice range is mostly of a later date but there are enough of the earlier ships to make this a viable option, including the iconic Italia. They should arrive at some point in the week so I can start putting them together and basing them up, ready to join the painting production line.
Ah, the Regia Marina, with ship designs almost as mad as the French. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I like about them...very wacky designs but also pretty effective. And you can't argue with a 17'' main armament even if it takes five minutes to fire and reload the things!
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