"The Roma Battleship." Topic

" named after two previous ships and the city of Rome,[N 2] was the fourth Vittorio Veneto-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina (English: Royal Navy). The construction of both Roma and her sister ship Impero was planned due to rising tensions around the world and the navy's fear that two Vittorio Venetos and the older pre-First World War battleships were not enough to counter the British and French Mediterranean Fleets. As Roma was laid down almost four years after the first two ships of the class, some small improvements were made to the design, including additional freeboard added to the bow.

Roma was commissioned into the Regia Marina on 14 June 1942, but a severe fuel shortage in Italy at that time prevented her from being deployed; instead, along with her sister ships Vittorio Veneto and Littorio, she was used to bolster the anti-aircraft defenses of various Italian cities. In this role, she was severely damaged twice in June 1943 from bomber raids on La Spezia. After repairs in Genoa through all of July and part of August, Roma was deployed as the flagship of Admiral Carlo Bergamini in a large battle group that eventually comprised the three Vittorio Venetos, eight cruisers and eight destroyers. Their stated intent was attacking the Allied ships approaching Salerno to invade Italy (Operation "Avalanche") but, in reality, the Italian fleet was sailing to Malta to surrender following Italy's September 8, 1943 armistice with the Allies."
From wiki.

Nice diorama here.

The USS Texas is quite good too.

From main page
katsflyby.blogspot.com.ar

Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

Now that is cool!

Really well done.
I especially like the Roma plowing through the seas.
Thanks for sahring Armand.
Joe

Brilliant work.

Beautiful work. I was amazed when I saw the lighter and realized what the (small) scale was.

Lovely work. The sea looks real. I was amazed when I saw the lighter too.

Amazing. You find the BEST "stuff"!

Magnificant. Truly.

Is it intentional that there appears to be a heat haze from the funnel in the first picture?

The Littorios are amongst my favourite ships, both for looks and and capability. They have always done well in wargames with a determined commander.

Well … it's a bit humbling to look at those ins't it …

Very clever work with the seascapes …

Phil

Awesome!

Seeing the lghter blew my mind.

Wow. Very impressive sea modeling.

Doug

All the superlatives have been used up in the previous posts. I was shocked to when I saw the lighter. I had assumed that this was in the area of three feet long or more. The early Texas is nice too. I wonder how he built the cage masts in so small a scale.

Edit: I just spent some time on the fellows site and they are kits. I had thought they were scratchbuild projects. Kits or not he does a fine job on them.

Those Italians sure built some fine looking ships, didn't they?

Not being particularly good at judging scale, what do you think it is? 1/1250 maybe? Smaller? Bigger…?

Great work! Thanks for finding these amazing models

Typical of Kostas' fine work. If you want to really see the range of what he's done – check this out:

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Happy you had enjoy the ship and the link guys!!

Amicalement
Armand

Amazing! I am in awe of the artists talent.

Looks like a resin kit, must be about 1/1200 scale or so. Lighter is ~2" tall, after all.

When I first saw that, I thought it was a 1/350th monster. Railings, rigging, cage masts…

Hey, PTDockyard: you need to send a catalog to this guy!

He does a fantastic job of detailing and placing the models in their natural environment. Once again Tango01, thanks for finding and sharing some fantastic modeling.

Excellent work! I really like the USS Texas dio as well :D

Happy you had enjoy it too my friends!!

Amicalement
Armand

Maybe it's a really BIG lighter. :)

Seriously, though, just amazing work. The sea effect on the Roma is about the best I've ever seen.