by Chris Bloswick
1/400 Collection Axis Cruisers (Tauro/Heller)
Samples of my ever growing fleet of 1/400 scale World War Two ships under the theme of the Battle of the Atlantic. This scale offers a variety of types of ships from different nationalities without having to resort to expensive resin kits. I like being able to group ships into scale fleets for the effect of comparing size and design. Here are some of my Axis warships. The Italian heavy cruiser is the Pola of the Zara Class. This is a Tauro kit from Italy. The quality is quite comparable to the more common Heller/Mirage kits on this scale. The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is the Heller kit. She was perhaps the most successful big-gun German surface raider in that she scattered an allied convoy and sank 17 merchant ships between the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The escorting German Z-38 destroyer is another Heller kit which can be assembled as several different destroyers of similar classes.
