foxbat's stuff. last update 06/11//2025 BB-61 USS Iowa

[foxbat]

Thanks gentlemen.
Getting back to WW2, various stuff I had lying around and that I completed waiting for my next order to arrive.

Starting with HMS Malaya, which is in fact a Warspite model. Hopefully, GHQ will provide a model for it too some day

[foxbat]

A pair of AA cruisers, HMS Cairo & Calcutta.





HMS Cairo







HMS Calcutta







And a few Pacific War DDs, Bagley class. All of them in measure 21 livery, hard to avoid in 1942.

[redleg]

Beautiful work Foxbat!

[chrisswim]

Foxbat,
Looks very nice. I like the Malaya best. The capital ships just have the look.

[ww2navyguy]

Excellent paint job on the U.S. destroyers! Love the Measure 21 scheme. Very nice job and thank you again for posting photos of your ships.

[foxbat]

Thanks gentlemen.
I'm adding now the remainder of Hipper's squadron, SMS Derfflinger and SMS Lützow, the flagship, that was also the only battlecruiser lost by Germany at Jutland.

Hipper's ships forming into line of battle, afternoon of May 31st 1916.




SMS Lützow

[foxbat]

SMS Derfflinger, of the same class.









A last pic, illustrating the evolution of the German Battlecruisers between 1909 and 1913 (launch dates of Von der Tann and Lützow) :Ships grow in size, number of guns, or caliber as unlike their predecessors,armed with 11" guns, Lützow and Derfflinger sported a 12" main battery. Interestingly too, the emphasis Germany placed on secondary guns, to repel torpedo boats and destroyers.

[pmskaar]

Those are all great looking ships, Foxbat! Both the WWI and the WWII look excellent. One of these days I will get back to painting some of my ships but my tanks keep calling me right now.

[redleg]

Spectacular work as always, Foxbat! Very cool shot of the four ships side-by-side to demonstrate the size differences!

[foxbat]

Thanks, Pete. I'm looking forward to seeing these, as you are a huge source of inspiration for me.
Meanwhile, see what recently arrived in the mail, I'm just about to switch sides and build Beatty

[pmskaar]

Those are just some of what I have already, Foxbat! I know you will definitely do them justice.

Seeing as you are working on the British Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet, here are a few of mine that I painted for GHQ a while back.
(For further inspiration, of course) LOL!


German CL Stuttgart


HMS Neptune


HMS Indefatigable - This was one of the first GHQ WWI ships that I painted and is still in my collection. I loaned it to GHQ for the photo.


HMS Warrior


German CL Weisbaden

[foxbat]

Thanks a lot! I have indeed used your outstanding work a lot as a source of inspiration, though I have other a few other sources. For instance, I'm working on the "pocket battleship " Admiral Scheer (back to WW2! ). I really like what you did on its 1940 version, but having read a good book on the Arctic theatre, I have opted for its 1942 appearance during Operation Wunderland (quite a fascinating episode, IMO)



Image from Shipbucket , which is an excellent website for naval modeling.

[foxbat]

Back to WW2, just finished that Scheer











Added some skyline pics too, got my hands back on these sunset backgrounds

[foxbat]

The Giussano class Bande Nere, a light cruiser whose max armor was 24mm... less than on a Panzer III D
Idea was to be able to catch the ultra fast (40 knots) big French DDs. Needless to say, all 4 ships of the class had been sunk by 1942...

[foxbat]

And 3 V&W class British destroyers, including HMS Walker, McIntyre's ship at the sinking of Kretschmeer's & Schepke's U-Boote.