„Askold“ – the Russian I rank armored cruiser

The "Askold" is one of the many beautiful ships, that honorably carried St. Andrew's flag. The "Askold" had a reputation as a "lucky" ship. The skill of the crew at sea saved him in difficult times. The most prominent pages of the ship's service are in the composition of the combat escadre of Port Arthur. "Askold's" finest hour - the battle of 1904. July 28 (in the old style), when the Russian escadre, at a critical moment, a beautiful cruiser, showered with dozens of shells, sails at full speed to the enemy ships and they separate and open the way to the open sea. At the beginning of the First World War, when the main forces of the Russian fleet were closed in the Baltic and Black Seas, only "Askold" actively and successfully operated together with the Allies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, in the Mediterranean Sea. Tens of thousands of miles were sailed, searching for German raiders, escorting transports with troops, blockades and shelling of the enemy coast, captured and sunk ships. Great work by the cruiser gunners in 1915. During the Dardanelles operation, he was repeatedly noted by the British and French command. Mines, submarine torpedoes, aircraft bombs and shells bypassed "Askold", but at the same time the ship's path was difficult and tragic. Askoldian graves are scattered all over the world: in England and France, Greece and Egypt, Ceylon, China and Japan, Murmansk and Vladivostok. Some sailors of the cruiser, buried according to maritime customs, rest at the bottom of the ocean.

The model is very complex, well designed and richly detailed, intended for intermediate and advanced modelers only. You can glue together a model of the ship, as it was in 1904. Where necessary, details are double-side printed.