As part of my ongoing 1/1000 scale Trashy Fleets exploits, I'm finally done with the almost Charles Martel, she is joining the Zinqaguri Navy, a peripheral minor power in my world of imagi-nations. Being quite fancy AND a battleship, she is going to bear the fleet admiral's flag.
Steaming alongside the Charles Martel, or as she will be known in Zinqagur, the ZS Lakardo, is the small torpedo boat destroyer TB-1 Marsal, modelled after the real world Claymore-class French ship, so they are kind of matching.
The only ahistorical element of the battleship is the fact that I left a tier of the main deck out, so the fore and aft main turrets are on the same level, while in fact the rear one should be placed a bit lower.
Here you can see the pronounced tumblehome of the hull. In all other aspects I went with Charles Martel's pre-WW1 configuration, so she received a black hull, yellow ochre upper structures and a white boot top. All in all a very striking appearance I think.
The main components for this scratchbuild were the following: balsa wood, 1 to 5mm thick (mainly for the hull); 0,5mm thick plasticard (for the upper structure and parts of the boat booms, also windows on the hull); bamboo sticks of various girth (for the stacks and masts); Magic Sculpt, a type of epoxy resin I've come to like a lot more than green stuff (for the turrets, crow's nests etc.); leftover PE sheet for the bridge; plastic bristles from a cheap hair brush for gun barrels and boat cranes; another, even smaller broom for the MG barrels in the fighting top. The forward anchor crane is made from spare parts of a 1/700 scale SMS Derfflinger. The QF guns on the upper structure are also spare bits, from a 1/700 USS Arizona (the one I posted here some time ago).
The bases are done my usual way, using acrylic medium and a stiff brush to shape the waves. The larger ones on the Claymore's base are sculpted with Magic Sculpt and the rest was layered on that.
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