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1:3000 Italians Fleet for Naval Thunder

With the advent of lockdown, Simon Elliot and I started playing remote games. Initially ancients land battles, but after a conversation, I mentioned I could do WW2 naval games as a remote game, and Simon jumped at the chance (something about being a naval historian and an ex editor of Jane's). This has led to many fun North Atlantic games, and now it is time to expand our theatre of operations into the Mediterrainean. Easy enough, a few extra British ships here and there, but we needed an opposition.
Scanning round, Ebay was not producuing anything of interest, but I put Davco in as a random search as I remembered figure manufactures from my youth, and found they are now owned by Navy Models and Books. An order was placed and a fleet pack arrived.

To finish off the capital ships for my Italians, four battleships.

Andrea Doria and Ciao Duilio




Camo


Vittoria Venito and Littorio


They do have dazzle camo, honest!


Meet these four together and it's a bad day!

More Italians done
Three Soldati class destroyers (there should be four, but for the life of me I cannot find the extra one)




Di Gussiano and Da da Barbiano (both lost in pretty horrific circumstances) at the Battle of Cape Bon



Four more Italian Cruisers done.
Trento




Garibaldi and Abruzzi




Gorizia


With flying boat deployed

A few more Italian ships. I've tried to paint the paint scheme most prevelent, but cool camo always wins...

Light Cruisers Duca d'Aosta, Montecuccoli, Attendolo and Eugenia di Savoia






Fiume, Zara and Pola of the Zara Heay cruiser class






Bolzano, a modified Trento class




Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare





First two batches painted up.

Eight Navigatori Destroyers, named after famed Italian explorers: Antiono Pigfetta, Emmanuele Pessagno, Leone Pancaldo, Lanzerotto Malocello, Giovanni de Verrannzo, Nocoloso de Recco, Antonio de Noli and Alvise de Mosto (quite a squeee to fit onto my normal ship labels)

With Italians, you have to put them in their air recognition stripes, they are just so cool!


Then two Colleoni subclass Cruisers. Colleoni and Bende Nere. Colleoni was sunk before she could have her recognition stripes added (Bere Nere did not last much longer). Very pretty ships thgough.

Great design, built to hunt French destroyers, lacking armour unfortunately!

Menacing...

They had intresting dazzle patterens too.

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