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Duillio Battle Ship 1776 Italian 4x100ton guns

This fantastic model was built around 1930

IT will be exhibited at Fort Rinell whose own design and purpose was to counter this actual Battleship class The fort has the same armament of one 100 ton muzzel loading gun . The ship has four of these. The scale is 1/50 and is 2meters long.

funnel restoration

Deutsch Levant Line
Castel Pelesh
A very old model some 140 cm long, solid wooden hull which not very recently was dug out and motorized .A plywood deck
with enlarged funnel and portholes for cooling ruined the scale. Handling also took its toll and most of the rigging was damaged or left unfinished .All fitting were originally silver plated but most of it had been shed away apart from missing parts and railings .

As a Restoration project this involved removing all motorization, complete new deck finely scored to scale with formers underneath to restore the humpback shape ,complete new superstructure in solid mahogany ,Silver plating all metal parts, new railing and rigging . The original funnel had been kept safe and was restored the model to its former glory.