The model was a pretty straightforward affair. Here is a short list of some
of the things I did.
- Re-scribe the forecastle deck, and replaced all the deck fittings with
scratch built details.
- New 20mm anti aircraft position to the bows.
- Replace most of the bulwarks with styrene, for scale thickness, and
height. There is nothing worse than having bulwarks that only come up to a
figures knee. That pretty much led to the scratch building of most of the
foretop.
- New Masts, these were built from styrene rod, stretched sprue, and brass
rod. I was dreading the main mast, but that was surprisingly easy and more
importantly, fun.
- Scratch built catapult towers, topped with a mixture of White Ensign
Models and Gold Medal Models catapult parts.
- Etched parts from various sources. But the main ones are TOMs, WEM
and GMM.
- Painted both by airbrush, and hand painted. Using Colourcoats, Humbrol and
Vallejo.
- The ship and the two aircraft are rigged with a combination of Lycra and
stretched black sprue.
- The 20mm and 40mm guns are all WEM castings, as are the paravanes.
- The Seagulls are also WEM, but I carved away the canopies and
replaced them with carved and polished acrylic ones.
- The aircraft decals are GMM, and the flag is Dunagain.
- The crew is from GMM. Surely they must be the navies biggest
supplier of man power by now?
Two years later, this is what I ended up with. I’m sorry if I got all the
nautical terms wrong. You see this language is all new fangled to me. This is my
second ship, (not the last I hasten to add). I normally build jets.
