SMS Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie

[snake777]

Hi All,

Went somewhat off piste and scratch-built myself a boat...

The Austro-Hungarian SMS Kronprinzessin Erzherzogin Stephanie, from the late 1880's

Made from card-stock, paper and styrene rod.  She is 8 cms long and looks rather better in the flesh than these photo's suggest...!!!

Must get back to my Bavarians... 

Enjoy,

Stu.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Scrating ships can be fun 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful work there, really should be proud

[Steve J]

That looks superb!

[Ithoriel]

That is very impressive!

[Ben Waterhouse]

A lovely model of my favorite foreign navy.

[mmcv]

Very well done, looks well

[Elliesdad]

I wonder if Ottoman Prohaska ever served aboard?
I'll have to check my library. John Biggins is/was a fie author and Prohaska seemingly got into as many scrapes as Harry Flashman.
Cheers,
Geoff

[snake777]

Scrating ships can be fun 

Thank you Ian... It was more challenging than I expected though...

[snake777]

Beautiful work there, really should be proud

Many thanks Lemmey... She's a bit rough close-up, but looks fine from a suitable distance... Just wondering whether to build her slightly bigger half-sister Rudolf...  :-

[pierre the shy]

Really good looking ship Stu.....love all the ships boats hanging above the main deck  

+1 to those John Biggins books, the 2 that I have read were very good.  

[snake777]

Really good looking ship Stu.....love all the ships boats hanging above the main deck 

+1 to those John Biggins books, the 2 that I have read were very good. 

Many thanks Pierre!... I was thinking that this wouldn't be too complex to do, and that I could leave of all the boats, but it made her silhouette completely wrong...  So she had to have her boats!!! 

That looks superb!

Thank you Steve! 

That is very impressive!

Many thanks Ithoriel  

A lovely model of my favorite foreign navy.

Thank you Ben :-) It is my personal favourite too, not too large and full of interesting ships... plus the names are awesome!!!  

Very well done, looks well

Many thanks mmcv  

I wonder if Ottoman Prohaska ever served aboard?
I'll have to check my library. John Biggins is/was a fie author and Prohaska seemingly got into as many scrapes as Harry Flashman.
Cheers,
Geoff  

Thanks Geoff, not sure I can enlighten you about this...!!  

[fred.]

A very cool little model - nice work. What scale have you built it at?

[Westmarcher]

That's really good! A fascinating era of naval warship development.  My compliments!  

[snake777]

A very cool little model - nice work. What scale have you built it at?

Thank you Fred    She's at a rather indeterminate scale, somewhere between 1/700 & 1/1000 methinks!!

That's really good! A fascinating era of naval warship development.  My compliments! 

Many thanks Westmarcher    It is a great era, and those wild, beautiful, ugly French designs are the bees knees!!!!!