Italian Weekend

I grabbed some time today to assemble the core of the Italian pre-dreadnought squadron using the excellent Tumbling Dice 1/2400th scale range. These are lovely models and go together very easily, without as many of the fiddly funnels and masts that the French pre-dreadnoughts are festooned with, so assembly was a fairly painless task. I have some more to add to the selection on display, including some more protected cruisers and battleships, which I'm hoping to build over the coming week. I also need to texture the bases and glue the ships in place but I'll do that in one production line workbench session. The plan will then be to paint them up over the half term break alongside the French.