SMS Triglav

Built by
Rainer Michalek
Germany
    The Tatra class of torpedo-destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian navy numbered six vessels; Tatra, Csepel, Lika, Orjen, Balaton and Triglav. They were all built at Porto Re and launched during 1912-13.
    Lika and Triglav were both mined and sunk on 29 December 1915 off Durazzo. Four additional replacement ships were ordered; named Lika II, Dukla, Uzsok and Triglav II. The ship-model presented here is of SMS Triglav II.
    She was launched in 1917, so had a short active career in WW1.
    She was propelled by two AEG-Curtiss steam turbines prducing over 20,500shp, thereby capable of propelling her to a maximum speed of 34 knots. Innovatively, some of her boilers were capable of being fired with both oil or coal.
    At the end of WW1, Triglav II and her sisters Lika II and Uzsok were ceded to Italy.
    The 1/350 resin kit manufactured by Wiener Modellbau Manufaktur (WMM) is of a split hull configuration permitting the construction of both waterline and full hull options.
    It is a simple kit of few parts, well cast with a fine PE fret and beautiful tapered brass spars along with a small decal sheet containg the various ship names.
    I built her according to the excellent instructions, some pictures I found online, and in books. She was painted using mainly airbrush with WEM KMC01 for the hull and C02 for the decks.
    Rigging was part stretched sprue and Lycra.
    The vessel was mounted ploughing into a head sea of silicone, painted with oil colours in my usual way.
    Overall a very pleasent, satisfiying and relatively easy model to build
Rainer Michalek 

Wiener Modellbaumanufaktur scala 1/350