New Paper Craft: Russian Monitor Smerch Free Ship Paper Model Download

This ship paper model is the Smerch (1865), a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1860s, the papercraft is created by AlexeyL, and the scale is in 1:200.

The Smerch was designed by the British shipbuilder Charles Mitchell and built in Saint Petersburg. The ship spent her entire career with the Baltic Fleet. She ran aground and sank shortly after she entered service in 1865. Smerch was refloated and repaired shortly afterwards. She became a training ship sometime after 1892 and was stricken from the Navy List in 1904.

The ship was hulked five years later and renamed Blokshiv No. 2. She was in Finland when that country declared its independence in 1918, but was returned to the Soviets after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed. Blokshiv No. 1, as the ship was now known, was sunk by German artillery fire in 1941. She was salvaged the following year and remained in service until she was stricken in 1959 and subsequently broken up. [Source: wikipedia]

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New Paper Craft: Imperial Russian Navy Monitor Novgorod Free Warship Paper Model Download

This paper model is the Novgorod, a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1870s, the papercraft is created by YUMK, and the scale is in 1:168.

The Novgorod was one of the most unusual warships ever constructed, and still survives in popular naval myth as one of the worst warships ever built. A more balanced assessment shows that she was relatively effective in her designed role as a coast-defence ship.

The hull was circular to reduce draught while allowing the ship to carry much more armour and a heavier armament than other ships of the same size. Novgorod played a minor role in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and was reclassified as a coast-defenceironclad in 1892. The ship was decommissioned in 1903 and used as a storeship until she was sold for scrap in 1911. For further information please click here.

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