Tag: Charles Martel

Charles Martel Leading the French Line of Battle

Pre-Dreadnought Charles Martel Leads the French Ironclad Fleet in the Line of Battle

Original Post: Jan. 13, 2026

Anyone paying attention just had to know this post was coming, no way I’d leave my Charles Martel out of the French Fleet Fun with Digital Dioramas!

As crazy as it may seem I do think this scene was actually plausible, Admiral Duperre, Devastation and Redoutable were all still active at the time of Charles Martel’s commissioning in 1897.

I was going to make the Reboutable led battle-line picture the new website splash-page graphic, but this pic ended up stealing the show.

Charles Martel French Battleship, 3D printed with an Elegoo Saturn

This post introduces the Charles Martel project page. The Charles Martel was a French pre-dreadnought battleship from the end of the 19th century. Her 1/200 scale model has been by far my most ambitious 3D build, taking over a year and a half from Blender design to display case. Her project page has a ton of Elegoo Saturn print example shots, in-progress build pictures, and comments from the assembly process, below are a few images from it.