--Originally Posted 3/22/08--

In case you hadn't heard, exactly a week ago - Saturday, 3/17/08 - the RAN Leander-class cruiser HMAS Sydney-II was located in deep Indian Ocean waters off Western Australia, just two days after and 12 nautical miles away from the discovery of her assailant, the "Q-ship"-type (i.e., disguised) armed merchant cruiser DKM Kormoran. None of Sydney's crew survived, and Kormoran did not actually see the Australian cruiser sink, before herself succumbing to damage sustained in the battle with Sydney that day, November 19, 1941.

We're going to mark the occasion of these discoveries by modeling (for a start) HMAS Sydney, for which I invite one and all to join us, in a group build. This project has already generated so many pics and interesting offshoots that I will let each sub-topic create its own, separate thread; the posts below being organized into a compendium of reference pics, plans, news from the wreck sites, etc., to which one and all can refer as needed.

Cheers,

-Matty