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My fascination with French naval design continues. Now, after building a series of pre-WW1 oddities, I have made a start on one of the relatively more modern examples – the Dunkerque of 1936. Designed, with its sister ship the Strasbourg, to counter the emerging German pocket battleships, the Dunkerque has the lean and hungry look of a hunter. The eight-gun main armament is all mounted in two turrets forward.
I have re-printed the WAK 1/200 card kit to a scale of 1/250 and the finished model will (just) fit in my 36 inch display case. My printer has given me some grief, producing 50 different shades of grey, but the result is likely to show more life than a just a flat painted surface. The kit has fixed turrets, but I am cutting out spaces for turntables for them.