M-boat German minesweeper (1916 model)

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This is a 1/300 scale model of a WWI german mine-sweeper (M-boat). As usual, its intended for wargaming, so perfect scale-detail is not guaranteed, but it is based on scans of original german navy blueprints found online (for whatever that's worth). I suggest a partially speculative armament of shielded 88mm guns fore and aft, a 37mm semi-automatic flak gun on the "bandstand", slightly aft of amid-ships, and a few 20mm flak guns around the bridge and superstructure. I actually began this model by accident, intending to model a WWII M-boat, and it was nearly complete before I found my error. Fortunately, many of these ships were still in use in the german Kriegsmarine in WWII as minesweepers, fleet tenders or voorpostenboots, so it is still appropriate for world war 2 naval wargaming. The dimensions, performance and armament are also similar to later WWII M-boat designs, at least on paper. In fact, the 1940 coal-burning M-boat design was apparently directly derived from this vessel. A 1943 M-boat is now in the works to atone for my sins.