"R-35 in 1/350" Topic

I am looking for some German R-35 Torpedo boats for a cruel seas game. When I first started this project and looked at the OB, my brain translated TB to MTB. So I thought easy R-35 is probably a lot like a R-23. WRONG. The R-35s are 83 meters long. Note that a US DE is only 94M and you see the R-35s are ships not really boats, no matter what the name says. Anybody have an idea where I might find either these or a close Proxy in 1/300-1/350? I have a number of frigates that can do a poor stand in, just would like to find something a lot closer for a public game.

I rather doubt you're going to find this in production unless it's with some niche cottage resin/3d maker from Slovakia or some such.

You will probably be able to get what you're after from Seadoggamestudios as a special order.

seadoggamestudios.com

They're an in house 3d printing company doing ship models from many periods at many scales. It won't be super cheap, and I have no idea about their turnaround time. I've seen them at a bunch of conventions and they're growing their offerings at a brisk pace. I am all but certain that their website does not reflect everything they are producing.

I know they do a US T2 tanker at 1/300. It prints in 3 parts, so you can do a Med convoy battle, or the Chris Pine "Their Finest Hour" movie.

if you are refering to the type 35 torpedo boat, Heller makes a type 39 in 1/400 which you could kit bash into a close replica
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Thanks that might do it

When I first started this project and looked at the OB, my brain translated TB to MTB. … The R-35s are 83 meters long. Note that a US DE is only 94M and you see the R-35s are ships not really boats, no matter what the name says.

Well, if we're going to look at the names …
(and btw, not criticizing the quoted posting here, just using it as a starting point for more discussion).

Other navies, including the WW2 Kriegsmarine, don't share the US Navy definitions of small naval vessels. The USN has a very clear size reference point at which a "boat" becomes a "ship". That's not the same word-wide, so other nations may refer to craft, quite correctly, as "boats" even if they would be considered "ships" by USN standards.

We will find many navies, particular European navies, that refer to naval vessels in that size class as Torpedo Boats. The naval craft that were built to defend capital ships against the rising number of torpedo boats, perhaps a small step larger, similar in speed and maneuverability but with more guns, came to be called "Torpedo Boat Destroyers" in English. This got shortened to "Destroyers". Now we easily forget where that term comes from.

The French Navy continued to call this class of naval craft torpedo boats (Torpilleurs) even as they grew ever larger. In fact by WW2 the most advanced French Torpilleurs, such as Mogador, were almost as close to USN light cruisers as to USN destroyers.

Only the USN referred to the class of general purpose convoy escort craft below destroyers as "Destroyer Escorts". The RN, which operated many of the same vessels (some even built in the same yards to the same specs) called them Sloops or Corvettes.

Or so I've read.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)