History:

The Togo was one of the world's first radar ships, night fighter guide ship (Nachtjagdleitschiff = NJL) Togo, which arrived at Tallinn on March 8, 1944. She was used to guide a pair of night fighters operating above the Gulf of Finland between Tallinn and Helsinki

Togo was launched in August 1938 as the merchant ship M/S Togo for the Woermann Line; her sister ship was M/S Kamerun. In the second World War, German ships were placed under internment in Allied ports. The Togo broke through the blockade in 1939 and returned to Hamburg. The Togo was build as a freighter but was taken over by the Kriegsmarine in 1939. The Togo was first rebuild as a minelayer, then converted to an auxiliary cruiser and renamed as Coronel aka Schiff 14. In late 1943 she was converted to a night fighter guide ship and renamed to Togo again. She operated under the control of the Luftwaffe in various part of the Baltic Sea. As a radar ship, Togo was equipped with two radars, the long-range Freya in bow and the medium-range W�rzburg-Riese in the stern. The war ended for the Togo before the Victory Day because of fuel shortages. After the second world war the way operating under different names for the US and then Norway. She was returned to Germany in 1956 and renamed Togo again. In 1984 she grounded on the Mexican coast

�The Model:

I had not heard myself anything about the publishing firm CFM Verlag until the last two years. I saw their models first on the HMW Website. Later I found their online magazines with lots of pictures on the Thomas Pleiner Web. This is a very good magazine that I can only recommend. This pictures indicate that the CFM models are of high quality and I subsequently bought some. This is the first model I am building from CFM and I have to say that the printing quality is very good. A lot of� parts are printed even on both sides and the model have a lot of details and are of very high quality.. Unfortunately in some cases the registration is off and where the backside should be grey it is white or partial white. On the first look the sheets look different, if you are used from Wihelmshavener Verlag or HMV Verlag, where parts are placed with sufficient space and order on the sheets. On CFM sheets everything is very compressed and tight packed. It looks like they have less parts and is does not look esthetically pleasing as Wilhelmhavener or HMW Kits. This might be not important for most people but I like also to look at kits.  On the other hand you will discover how many parts and details the model really has. This is not quite as obvious when you look at the kit. This are characteristic of Polish models and there is certainly a influence from this side although this model was designed in Germany.

The Kit:

The model has the typical egg crate design. The hull is printed also on the inside at the area which extends over the decks, which is a nice feature, as you can see in the picture. This is an improvement that I would wish every published would do. Traditional in other models you have inside a strips which is printed to cover the white inside of the hull. I always wanted to cut out the�hawseholes, which never quite worked as it is very difficult to cut them out matching the print on the front and back layer.