I'm amazed I could get so much of the prototype on the little 1200 (down on the right on my work surface).
It took A LOT of time. American destroyers are much simpler.
I cheated on the gun tubes both for Kirishima and Shiratsuyu: they are .025" and .020" plastic rod. (Cylindrical cardstock at 1:1200 is impossible, and lighter paper is too time-consuming.) Also the barbettes are 3 ply cardstock glued together, although that was too much. At 1:1200 2 ply is quite sufficient.
Indian Ocean opponents are my cardstock 1:1200 battleship Rodney, heavy cruiser Dorsetshire (sporting the ghastly and disastrous Mountbatten Pink), Hunt Type 1 escort destroyer sans guns, and ORP (J/K/N class) Piorun (which harried Bismarck in its final hours and is false shown blown up in the generally still excellent Sink the Bismarck film. I had my cardstock 1:1200 KGV/Prince of Wales, but unlike Nelson/Rodney that is readily/redundantly available in a plastic kit, although the gun sleeves are grossly oversize.)
And what ship are those 1:1200 and 1:1800! hulls in the lower right? Hmm?
