These have been long time coming, I begun redrewing them in summer of 2012, and they since got bogged down in my prioritylist over AUs of various sort (only to appear in slightly different form in one of those never published recarnations of my finnish AUs), but it took couple of nice reference findings to get me finally complete them. I decided, since they pack five drawings, they deserve their own thread spinoff from the Finnish navy main thread that I've been maintaining.
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Here is Väinämöinen herself after commisioning. The bofors 105mm/50 AA was not yet ready, and the venerable Obuhonov 102mm/60 was shipped instead.
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Ilmarinen is shown here in her 1938 guise. The 105mm battery is allready onboard, but they still lack the aft firecontroll
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Väinämöinen again, this time on action, or as she was fitted (now with full FC) during the winter war, in overally white camoflage pattern (or as white as SB allows one get). Since that war was fought during the winter months, both of them spend most of their days as airdefence batteries for Turku.
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For the next war, they were both refitted, loosing their searchligth platforms from the mast, as well as most of the rigging. Small AA was added, and the 40mm Vickers AA was replaced with 40mm Bofors water cooled mounts.
This is Ilmarinen in her last guise, she was lost in 1941 after hitting a mine in one rather indifferent covert dash to the open sea in vain attempt to lure the Soviet Fleet from Konstrad to the sea to face the strong Kriegsmarine contignent.
NOTE, the colors are completely guesswork in these patterns (as well is the pattern in some parts, since good pics of Ilmarinen at 1941 aren't that much to work with)
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And here is Väinämöinen again, this time in 1944, differing with small detail and carrying different color shceme, thougth this time the pattern should be as accurate as possible, but colors are still propotional.
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