From KenR - 1/700 German Destroyer - 40 points

 

It's been a slow start to the Challenge this year for me but I thought I would start with an old favourite Project from a couple of years ago, my 1/700 scale WW2 project (Narvik and Convoy Actions)

The model is from Trumpeter and represents one of the earlier Type 1934 Destroyers, Z2 Georg Thiele, named after a WW1 Corvette Captain she was lost at the Battle of Narvik, out of the harbour during the initial British attack, Z2 attacked the British as they exited the Harbour, she was rammed and hit at least 7 times  with Ammo and Torpedoes gone her Captain beached the vessel and its crew escaped. They later joined the land fighting around the town.

I've added some basic marking on the ship, although the German ships at Narvik were most likely plain, I'm thinking ahead to the demo version of this game when on table recognition between 10 near identical ships will be an issue.

Points wise I have gone for 40, which is what I have claimed for this size of ship in the last two challenges, it's about 20cm long and takes a full day to do, about the same time as 8 x 28mm figures. I've got a unit of 28mm Prussians done and being based so they will be next.

No Big project this year, I hope to make a dent in my 3 ongoing Projects, WW2 Naval, 28mm Plancenoit Napoleonic and of course Italian Wars, I have a Swiss Pike Block staring at me as well !

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Welcome back to the Challenge Ken! I really like seeing you return to this naval project - the history is fascinating and your results are absolutely stunning (love the shell waterspouts too). I look forward to hearing more about the upcoming game demo which features these models. In the meantime please bring on your Prussians and Italian Wars efforts!

- Curt