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Regia Marina 'Roma'; 1/1200 (05821)
Topic Started: Jun 4 2016, 11:28 PM (614 Views)
peebeep
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Regia Marina Battleship 'Roma' 1:1200

The Italian battleship Roma was the third of four ships in the Littorio class of the Regia Marina, the fourth, Impero, was not completed. Commissioned in June 1942, the ship was never actually deployed due to fuel shortages. Instead, with sister ships Vittorio Veneto and Littorio, Roma was used to bolster anti-aircraft defences of various Italian cities. Following the September 1943 armistice the ship joined a fleet that ostensibly set out to attack allied forces approaching Salerno. In fact the plan was to sail to Malta in order to surrender. The force was intercepted and attacked by Luftwaffe Do 217s of Kg 100 armed with Fritz 'X' glider bombs, intent on stopping the fleet falling into allied hands. The Roma was hit by two bombs, capsized and broke into two, with the loss of 1,253 crew members out of a complement of 1,393. Roma and its sisters were significant capital ships, displacing nearly 45,500 tons and main armament consisting of nine 381mm guns.

This little kit has actually been around for a little while and can also be found in ESCI boxes and dates from some time in the 1980's. Opening the box bought back some memories of tripping down to the village paper shop in the 1960's, where as well as sweets you could also purchase Eaglewall ship kits, but I digress...

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Moving on to the plastic, at such a small scale the parts count is never likely to be high. The Level 4 rating is a bit puzzling, but I guess some of the smaller parts might be a bit challenging to casual or new modellers. There is a bit of flash evident and the guns particularly will need some cleaning to get them properly ship-shape, but otherwise the mouldings are doing quite well in consideration of their age.

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One thing I particularly don't like is the raised circles on the hull sides depicting scuttles. They are way overscale/size and need removing and possibly drilling out if you're a bit fastidious. Enterprising modellers might perhaps create some suitably sized dots as decals to represent the scuttles.

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Instructions are in the now standard format and there is a decal sheet, albeit tiny, with two decals of the ships name. They could have included some flags, a slightly disappointing omission.

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Being such a simple kit there are few stages in construction.

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Finally a comprehensive painting guide, but no clue as to where the (two) decals go! The hi-vis recognition bands and disruptive camouflage should lead to a surprisingly colourful model.

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Revell have continued to sporadically release 1:1200 ships for some time, all credit to them for doing so. This re-release should be welcomed by ship modellers who indulge in this scale and for others I'd say it is a perfect little AMS/stress buster that you should be able to assemble and paint in an afternoon or evening thereabouts. This one has that little extra splash of colour to tempt you. Recommended.

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jacksdad64
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Nice review Paul.
As you say, it looks to be a lovely little kit for stress relief/mojo renewal.

Steve

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Johni044
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Nice review of a ship and it's history I was unaware of.

Curious scheme, must have been a commitee involved, lets spend all that time and effort to camouflage it then as it's being used as an anti-aircraft assert let's paint it white orange and yellow so you can see it from the air. :adolf:

To quote a certain TV programs of the '80's "What a mistaka to a maka"
Edited by Johni044, Jun 5 2016, 07:33 AM.
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Jun 5 2016, 07:31 AM
Nice review of a ship and it's history I was unaware of.

Curious scheme, must have been a commitee involved, lets spend all that time and effort to camouflage it then as it's being used as an anti-aircraft assert let's paint it white orange and yellow so you can see it from the air. :adolf:

To quote a certain TV programs of the '80's "What a mistaka to a maka"
So, there may be something to all of those jokes disparaging I-talians.... :whistle: :blink:

Cheers,

ggc
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peebeep
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I've got to be honest, I'd rather not be serving on a ship that has 'bomb me' markings splashed all over it!

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Jun 5 2016, 12:54 PM
I've got to be honest, I'd rather not be serving on a ship that has 'bomb me' markings splashed all over it!
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The Red and White stripes were added after an unfortunate incident where about 80 Italian aircraft bombed their own Battleships
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