Reviewed by Timothy Dike
| The Marseillaise was a La Galissonnière
Class light cruiser built shortly before World War Two. She was armed with
nine six inch guns in three tripple turrets. For anti aircraft protection
he has eight 3.5" guns, 24 40 mm guns and 16 20 mm light anti aircraft
guns. She also carried four 21" torpedo's in two twin tubes. In 1939 she
was involved in escorting convoys to and from Great Britain. Her career
was cut short when she was scuttled at Toulon on 27 November 1942
to prevent her from falling into German hands following the capture of
that port.
Specifications:
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| The Hull is pretty well cast and has fair amount of detailing. I don't care for the molded on anchors it is easy to sand these off if you wish. Overall the casting is clean and will need a very minimum of work to clean up. |
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| Superstructure parts are all nicely molded on thin resin wafers. You will need to be careful removing some of the more delicate parts from the wafer as they are pretty thin. The Loire-Nieuport 130 float plane looks pretty good. The main gun turrets are mounted on the wafer in two different ways, a nice touch that will allow you to know what each side should look like when you are sanding off the attachment points. |  |
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The instructions consist of two sides of an standard sheet
of paper. Barely adequet to build a ship like this. I had a tough time
finding reference material for this on and the instructions wont help much.
The included color plan and profile is a nice touch though.
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