Hello to all the modelers here in the forum !!!
As I wrote in one of my last post on the Peresvet thread, I delayed the building of the Peresvet battleship for a couple of reason...one was about few time due job and family task...
The second reason was a secret that now I want unreveal to you..
This reason has a name : CHANZY and she was an armoured French cruiser of 1894.
The cruser Chanzy was part of the "Amiral Charner" class of four protected cruiser : Amiral Charner, Chanzy, Bruix and Latouche-Tréville.
This class of cruiser was built with the scope to attack and destroy British merchant ships, in case of war.
At the launch the ships were equipped with big military masts, but after 1905, was took the decision to change the masts with normal ones.
There are very few info on Chanzy....
She was launched on January 1895, commissioned on December 1894 and after her trials in 1895, she served in the Caribbean and in the Far East.
Chanzy ran aground in Indochina in 1907, where she proved impossible to refloat and was destroyed on 30 May of same year. (from wikipedia)
The ship had the following dimensions :
* Lenght : 106 mt.
* Beam : 14 mt.
* Draught : 6.2 mt.
* Displacement : 4.700 tons.
She was pushed at 18,2 knots by two propellers powered by 2 Creusot alternate horizontal steam engines, triple expansion, with 16 Belleville boilers and 8,800 shp.
Armament :
• 2 × 194 mm /45 guns M1887 (fore and aft)
• 6 × 138 mm /45 guns M1887 (port and starboard)
• 4 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
• 4 × 47 mm (3pdr) guns
• 6 × 37 mm revolver guns
• 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Protection :
• steel
• from 90 mm to 100 mm. to waterline belt;
• 105 mm for towers
• 105 mm for conning tower
Complements was 410
Ok... now some info on model kit.
The kit is produced by Orel, in 1:200 scale.
The quality of printing is really good and also the type of paper is pretty good.
Instructions must be read carefully (the instructions are in Russian) especially looking at the pictures.
Together with kit I've bought the cardboard keel and frames by Orel and I was satisfied also from those parts...the thickness is 1mm but still enough strong to give a good strength and rigidity of the hull and bridges.
I have cut the portholes by a punch&die set and by little drops of gold paint, on the tip of a toothpick, I have "empathized" the external porthole ring.
The build was straightforward and good, with very few mistakes (mine ...not from kit) and now the Chanzy is at the stage shown by following pics.
Ah...right... I have painted the lower hull in the same way like Imperator Nikolai and Peresvet... two-three layers of Tamiya grey base, three layers of Tamiya red dull and two last layers of transparent matte cover spray.
Ok... now the pics..
Have a nice modeling time
ciao
Jp
As I wrote in one of my last post on the Peresvet thread, I delayed the building of the Peresvet battleship for a couple of reason...one was about few time due job and family task...
The second reason was a secret that now I want unreveal to you..
This reason has a name : CHANZY and she was an armoured French cruiser of 1894.
The cruser Chanzy was part of the "Amiral Charner" class of four protected cruiser : Amiral Charner, Chanzy, Bruix and Latouche-Tréville.
This class of cruiser was built with the scope to attack and destroy British merchant ships, in case of war.
At the launch the ships were equipped with big military masts, but after 1905, was took the decision to change the masts with normal ones.
There are very few info on Chanzy....
She was launched on January 1895, commissioned on December 1894 and after her trials in 1895, she served in the Caribbean and in the Far East.
Chanzy ran aground in Indochina in 1907, where she proved impossible to refloat and was destroyed on 30 May of same year. (from wikipedia)
The ship had the following dimensions :
* Lenght : 106 mt.
* Beam : 14 mt.
* Draught : 6.2 mt.
* Displacement : 4.700 tons.
She was pushed at 18,2 knots by two propellers powered by 2 Creusot alternate horizontal steam engines, triple expansion, with 16 Belleville boilers and 8,800 shp.
Armament :
• 2 × 194 mm /45 guns M1887 (fore and aft)
• 6 × 138 mm /45 guns M1887 (port and starboard)
• 4 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
• 4 × 47 mm (3pdr) guns
• 6 × 37 mm revolver guns
• 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Protection :
• steel
• from 90 mm to 100 mm. to waterline belt;
• 105 mm for towers
• 105 mm for conning tower
Complements was 410
Ok... now some info on model kit.
The kit is produced by Orel, in 1:200 scale.
The quality of printing is really good and also the type of paper is pretty good.
Instructions must be read carefully (the instructions are in Russian) especially looking at the pictures.
Together with kit I've bought the cardboard keel and frames by Orel and I was satisfied also from those parts...the thickness is 1mm but still enough strong to give a good strength and rigidity of the hull and bridges.
I have cut the portholes by a punch&die set and by little drops of gold paint, on the tip of a toothpick, I have "empathized" the external porthole ring.
The build was straightforward and good, with very few mistakes (mine ...not from kit) and now the Chanzy is at the stage shown by following pics.
Ah...right... I have painted the lower hull in the same way like Imperator Nikolai and Peresvet... two-three layers of Tamiya grey base, three layers of Tamiya red dull and two last layers of transparent matte cover spray.
Ok... now the pics..
Have a nice modeling time
ciao
Jp
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