Cruel Seas: Drache helicopter carrier italeri The T-34s ran circles around

The T-34s ran circles around the struggling German hardware – especially as the Luftwaffe was more often than not grounded due to the bad weather

she was towed to Santa Cruz to enact repairs

Use with super glue to glue larger components

Sadly for the romantics amongst us

Cruel Seas: Drache helicopter carrier italeri The T-34s ran circles aroundThe Drache started as a seaplane tender built in Hamburg for the Royal Yugoslavian Navy in 1928. She was converted into a minelayer in 1937. Captured by the Germans in 1941, the Kriegsmarine renamed her the Drache (dragon) and converted her back to a Flugzeugbergungsschiff an aircraft rescue ship. Drache underwent a refit back to being a minelayer in the spring or summer of 1942 and was moved to the Aegean. She was re equipped with two 105 mm (4. 1")