A FINELY DETAILED AND WELL-PRESENTED SCALE MODEL OF THE LATE 19 T H-CENTURY RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL USHAKOV (1893) modelled from his own researches by John Biggins, with masts, rigging, anchors with chain, davits and winches, companionways, main and secondary armament, deck rails, superstructure with glazed wheelhouse with helm and binnacle and helm and telegraph over, gun turret with ten guns and arc light over, two stayed funnels with safety valve extension pipes, ten assorted ship's boats in davits and chocks with internal details including bottom boards, thwarts and oars, and steam boilers with folded funnels, ventilators, engine room lights and other details. The hull with planked decks, carved crest, torpedo tubes, portholes, sponson booms, bilge keels, boarding companionways, twin shafts with three-blade propellers and rudder, is finished in red below the waterline, black and natural wood and mounted on two turned wooden columns to display board attached to green-painted base with metal-bound glazed cover. Measurements overall -- 21¼ x 42½in. (54 x 108cm.) See illustration
A FINELY DETAILED AND WELL-PRESENTED SCALE MODEL OF THE LATE 19 T H-CENTURY RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL USHAKOV (1893) modelled from his own researches by John Biggins, with masts, rigging, anchors with chain, davits and winches, companionways, main and secondary armament, deck rails, superstructure with glazed wheelhouse with helm and binnacle and helm and telegraph over, gun turret with ten guns and arc light over, two stayed funnels with safety valve extension pipes, ten assorted ship's boats in davits and chocks with internal details including bottom boards, thwarts and oars, and steam boilers with folded funnels, ventilators, engine room lights and other details. The hull with planked decks, carved crest, torpedo tubes, portholes, sponson booms, bilge keels, boarding companionways, twin shafts with three-blade propellers and rudder, is finished in red below the waterline, black and natural wood and mounted on two turned wooden columns to display board attached to green-painted base with metal-bound glazed cover. Measurements overall -- 21¼ x 42½in. (54 x 108cm.) See illustration
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