The Beaux Arts Of War

French naval designers as a school of art

A Danton-class alongside Triophante: three decades of change

When I took the Danton-class kit from the box, I did not intend to paint her in horizon blue. Made in Russia and purchased before the current hostilities in Ukraine, the kit is supposed to represent the Vergniaud, commissioned in 1911 and (in)famous for the crew mutiny that took place when she …