I am hoping to get some Cruel Seas models completed in 2021, having failed to get this project off the slipway in 2019 or again in 2020, despite my best intentions and a couple of enjoyable games at the club. I’m not sure why it’s stalled, as the models are very nice and not difficult to paint, even with my rapidly failing eyesight. I think it’s a feeling of having ‚missed the boat‘ with the initial rush of enthusiasm when the rules first came out, as well as having coastal forces stuff in 1/600th scale already, which made me question the wisdom of doing it all over again in twice the size. Anyway, to cut a long self indulgent ramble short, I thought I’d go in big with a cheap(ish) 1/350th scale Zvezda model kit of the early war German destroyer Diether Von Roeder, which should be pretty impressive on the table, as well as fun to build and paint up. Why not?!