Pre-dreadnought Battleship Bouvet (1896) 1/700 by PCPaleomodels

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Built in the 1890s as a part of the "Sample fleet" in an attempt to respond to the British Royal Sovereign battleship class, the squadron battleship Bouvet was quite different from her sister ships, due to imprecise specifications. The result was an unusual and rather unsuccessful design with a exaggerated tumblehome hull, multi-caliber armament, complex lifeboat handling and poor seaworthiness.
This battleship is sadly most famous for her tragic loss at the Dardanelles Straits battle in 1915. Participating in the attempt to force the Straits while being obsolete even before the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought, she struck a mine and sank with most of her crew.
The model is intended for 1/700 scale. I choose not to draw some details (such as the masts, the 47mm guns, the anchor chains because I rather use photo-etched parts and metallic rods to achieve a more realistic model.
Even with my SLA printer, It proved rather difficult to print and some details are to small.
However here are the files:

the Hull (for those who have big printers)


the front of the hull (separated to fit in the SLA printer)


the rear of the hull (separated to fit in the SLA printer)


the front superstructure and mast


the rear superstructure and mast


the central platform (most difficult part to print, I recommend to skip this part and to rebuilt it with brass) and its foot bridge


the 138mm turret, 8 of these must be printed (4 each side of the hull)


the 274mm turret, 2 of these must be printed (1 each side of the hull)


the 305mm turret, 2 of these must be printed (1 front and 1 rear)


the additional anchor (3 can be printed, 1 each side and 1 to the starboard of the stern)


the side lifeboat cranes, 8 must be printed (4 each side of the hull)

the center cranes, 2 must be printed (positioned in the center of the hull)