More Ghekek Ships the French Navy

 More ships Printed for me by Arofan from Ghekek's excellent files.  I now have a nice little French Taskforce.

The Heavy Cruise Algerie Widely considered one of the best of the Treaty Era Cruiser 

She had a good balance of Firepower, speed and armor.  She never found a fight before France got out of World War II and she was scuttle in Toulon. 

Next up is the Light Cruiser Emile Bertin.   She served Both the French and the Free French Navies, having carried French Gold Reserves to the Martinique.

She served as a Destroyer Flotilla Flagship and could operate as a minelayer a very versatile ship.

Last we have the contre-torpilleurs of the Mogador Class the Mogador and the Vota.  English Sources call these Destroyers and they fill a similar roll but they really are a French approach.

They are large, fast(39 knots!) and heavily armed with six 5.5 inch guns as well as Torpedoes, Depth charges and Mines. They are powerful units on paper but in reality they had a low rate of fire and that high speed lead to poor maneuverability. Many Cruisers and even some battleships could turn tighter then they could.  

This Picture gives you an idea of the size of the Mogadors.  US Destroyer, Mogador and the light cruiser Emile Bertin as you can see the Mogador is about 70% of the size of the cruiser. 

More Ghekek Ships German Hipper class Cruisers

I had one Hipper Class Cruiser but a recent playtest of a fictional battle lead me to think it would be good to have some more.  

Historically the three that were completed didn't see much service together but for speculative scenarios its nice to have more than one. I'll now have three which is the number that were completed.  These were 3d Printed for me by Arofan from Ghekek's files. I have to say I am impressed. 

I used the Baltic camo pattern because I have always liked the way it looked. 

One of the ships has black on the super firing turrets for easy identification 

Here they are with my old Panzerschiff Hipper.  The Scale is a good match though the level of detail is much lower.  I've also got some new French and American ships to show off later. 

Ghukek's Miniatures 1/2400 ships

Arofan and I recently Discovered a new 3D Print designer Ghekek 

We grabbed a few of the Free offers and Arofan printed them up for me and I got them painted.  First up a American Northampton Class Cruiser with camouflage patter.

Here we have another Northampton in plain gray except for the False bow wave intended to throw off speed estimates made by enemies using optical range finders 

Two Ise-Class Battleships  a design I have always liked with twelve 14-inch guns in in Six twin turrets. 

These two didn't have much of a war rescored and were converted in to hybrid carriers. 

I want to use them as old school Battleships. 

Finally Five Trible class Destroyers so my British Battleship and Cruiser will have some escorts. 

I Think these may be form the Same creator Frank provided Arofan with the file.