Manufacturer: HP Models
Scale: 1/700
Additional parts: PE parts
Model build: Sep - Oct 2016
Kriegsmarine Torpedofangboot Ausland TFA-7
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Kriegsmarine Torpedofangboot Ausland TFA-7
ORP Mewa (Englich: "Seagull") was the second of six Jaskółka-class minesweepers of the Polish Navy, built between 1934 and 1935. Ships of this class were also designed for minelaying and anti-submarine warfare.
The ship was commissioned on October 25, 1935, damaged on the first day of the war, and sunk two days later. Raised by the Germans, the Kriegsmarine initially commissioned her as Putzig and later as the torpedo catcher TFA 7. Returned to Poland in 1946, she remained in active service until 1960 before being decommissioned in 1970 and scrapped in 1981.
As I have a few resin ship models around and no experience how to build them, I got a small, cheap resin ship to test this kind of models.
So here is the Torpedofangboot Ausland 7 - or TFA 7 - a small Kriegsmarine vessel. It was build as a Polish mine hunter in 1935 and scuttled after the German attack on Poland. Recommissioned in German service in 1941, it survived the war and was used until 1970.
This model - scale 1/700 - is really small and therefore I had to zoom in quite a lot for the photos. See the German destroyer and the 2-Cent coin to compare the size.
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