by Kieran Griffith
1/6000 Steaming Towards The Battle of the Three Navies 1916 (Noble Minatures)
These are warships of the RN and IJN fleets steaming towards the Sandwitch Islands at 23 knots. They are burning large quantities of the practically smokeless Cardiff Coal to take on the USN in Harry Turtledove’s alternate history Great War series. With the USA versus Japan and Britain there are two IJN Dreadnoughts of the Tosa class, four battlecruisers of the Amagi class and one RN super dreadnought of the Incomparable class, four dreadnoughts of the N3 class and four dreadnoughts of the G3 class.
The frame I got in a second hand shop and had a picture of a large duck behind glass, Noble 1/6000 minis are works of art for you need really good eyesight to see any imperfections in the tiny minatures where one foot equals one nautical mile and a large dreadnought is less then an inch long. Noble minis is probably the best company on Earth for producing minatures of hypothetical models. You could collect an entire what if WW2 German Kreigsmarine. The whispy smoke is from cotton Q-tips.
The Battle of the Three Navies is a fictional battle between the navies of the United States and those of Great Britain and Japan in Harry Turtledove’s Southern Victory Timeline-191 series. It is equivalent in importance to the Battle of Jutland in our timeline.
The battle was fought in 1916 south of the Sandwitch Islands (Hawaii), which the U.S. had seized from Great Britain in 1914 at the beginning of the Great War. The result of the fighting was a draw. The most notable event in the battle was the "Death Ride of the battleship USS Dakota," whose steering gear was jammed, forcing the Dakota to sail between the British and Japanese lines (probably a reference to the "Windy Corner" of the HMS Warspite during the Battle of Jutland). The battleship survived the action.
